Pirmin Fleck, born August Fleck (born June 3, 1897 in Grombach, Germany, February 20, 1957) was a German Benedictine missionary in Africa. Edit LifeQualtext
He was the son of a saddler and spent his childhood in Grombach. From 1910 he attended the Gymnasium in the Main Monastery of St. Ludwig, later he moved to St. Ottilien and to Dillingen. From 1916 he took part as a corporal in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded in 1917 on the Serethfront in Romania by a knee-shot. In 1920, he entered the monastery in Dillingen, where he received a professorship on April 13, On July 19, 1925, he was ordained priest by Maximilian von Lingg. In September 1926, he was sent as a chaplain to the Peramiho area to East Africa, where he was seriously wounded in an attack by a lion in 1927. From 1929 to 1942, he built the mission station Mpitimbi, but had to leave it because of the changed geopolitical situation because of the broken World War II and came to the mission station Mahanje. From 1951 to the autumn of 1952 he was back in Germany, afterwards he headed the mission station Ligera, built by the Benedictine Bonaventura Breunig, who also came from Grombach. In January 1957 he returned to Germany for health reasons and died shortly afterwards in a hospital in Munich. He was buried in the Abbey of St. Ottilien near Munich. His sister Pirmina Fleck was also active as a missionary in Africa, but the brothers and sisters never saw each other again after their departure from Germany. Edit source text Standard data (person): Wikipedia person search | No GND person record. Last review: 3 February 2015.
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