Michael Rackl
Michael Rackl was Roman Catholic Bishop of Eichstätt from 1935 until his death in 1948.
Born in Rittershof, Rackl was ordained a priest on 29 June 1909 at the age of 25 in Eichstätt by Cardinal Konrad von Preysing.
On 4 November 1935, aged 52, Rackl was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt, where he remained until his death at age 64 on 21 December 1935. During the Second World War, Rackl allowed British Officers in a local prisoner-of-war camp to use the Bishopric's printing press to produce a camp magazine entitled "Touchstone", which was notable for including three ghost stories by Alan Noel Latimer Munby.
In 1933, he signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State. He was a priest for almost 39 years and a bishop for 12 years.
