Ks. Franz Scholz i jego posługa kapłańska w Zgorzelcu w latach 1945–1946 – próba nowego spojrzenia
Father Franz Scholz and his ministry in Zgorzelec in 1945–1946 – an attempt of new look

Summary/Abstract: Father Franz Scholz is to be remembered by posterity mainly because of his remarks about establishing the Apostolic Administration in Wrocław and about cardinal Hlond. The events of 1945–1946, when Father Scholz was the parish priest of the parish of St. Boniface in Zgorzelec, were described in his memoirs. A query of church sources in the Archive of Episcopal Curia in Legnica and in the Archive of Parish of St. Boniface in Zgorzelec revealed previously unknown materials, which shed new light (in comparison to the memoirs), on this period of Father Scholz’s life. The case of this German clergyman suggests formulating more nuanced opinions on the attitudes and decisions of German clerics in the first postwar years. The lecture of church documents given an impression that initially the relations between Father Scholz and Polish Church authorities (and at least part of secular authorities) were almost model. Father Scholz enjoyed enormous confidence from Father Milik; otherwise, he would not be entrusted with the position of dean of then-vast deanery of Lubań or tasked with initiating negotiations with the diocese of Meißen about merging four parishes located on the Polish side of the border into the Apostolic Administration. Also, the issue of application for Polish citizenship in presented differently in Scholz’s memoir and in the documents.

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