**Franz und Franziska Jägerstätter**
Katholische Privat-Universität Linz

Catholic Private University Linz/Franz and Franziska Jaegerstaetter Institute

Upper Austria

The Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter Institute was founded in 2017 as a funded research institution at the Catholic Private University of Linz. Franz Jägerstätter refused to do military service for the Nazi regime out of religious conviction and was executed for this on August 9, 1943. His case was debated in church, society and politics for many decades. Today, he is one of the best-known conscientious objectors under National Socialism.

The Institute's tasks are:

Publication of the digital Jägerstätter Edition
Research on Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter and collection of documents relating to their lives
Support of Jägerstätter commemorative work and development of pedagogical and didactic applications and projects
Research regarding similar testimonies of resistance and ideological dissent during the era of National Socialism
Research on the role and dynamics of religion, churches and faith under National Socialism and other authoritarian forms of rule
Co-edition and coordination of the “Upper Austria Memory Book” project

To the digitised objects in Kulturpool

**Franziska Jägerstätter mit einem Foto von Franz Jägerstätter in den Händen, 2007**
Christine Haider

Introducing

Franz und Franziska Jägerstätter

When Franziska Jägerstätter died in 2013 at the age of 100, she left behind a unique collection of letters and photographs. The project sheds new light on the woman's life and the impact of the famous resistance figure Franz Jägerstätter.