Former Head of SSVDP Conference on Path to Beatification

Ross Dizon alerts us to the following… For saying “no” to Hitler, a former president of the Conference of St.
Vincent is on possible path to beatification.The Bolzano-Bressanone Diocese has opened the local phase of the process of
beatification of Josef Mayr-Nusser, who was sentenced to die for forgoing an
oath of fidelity to Hitler.

The needy were also among Mayr-Nusser’s concerns. As president of the St.
Vincent’s Conference, Mayr-Nusser was constantly visiting the poor and
giving them material and spiritual help.

There is some very interesting background to the Street Josef-Mayr-Nusser-Weg, 2001.

Joser Mayr-Nusser (born 27 December 1910 in Bolzano as the son of a family of winegrowers) worked as an office worker, and then as a cashier for the Amonn company in Bolzano (German: Bozen). In his free time, Josef Mayer-Nusser was involved in social and youth work within the church, and was a member of the “Katholische Aktion” (Catholic Action). In the summer of 1944, he was drafted into the Waffen-SS, and received strict military and political training in the Konitz barracks near Gdánsk (German: Danzig). On 4 October 1944, Josef Mayr-Nusser refused to swear allegiance to the Führer for religious reasons. He died in a cattle wagon at Erlangen station on 24 February 1945 of famine edema and pneumonia while being transported from the SS prison in Danzig to the SS prison in Dachau. There has been a Josef-Mayr-Nusser-Strasse in Bolzano since 1949. It was decided to name a trafficway in Innsbruck after Josef Mayr-Nusser at a city council meeting on 26 June 1986. Like Josef-Mayr-Nusser-Strasse in Bolzano, Josef-Mayr- Nusser-Weg in Innsbruck is in an industrial park. There are three street signs indicating Josef-Mayr-Nusser-Weg in Innsbruck.