- Johannes Flintrop
Johannes Flintrop (
May 23 ,1904 -August 28 ,1943 ) was a prominent Roman Catholic critic of theNazi Party who died in theDachau concentration camp .Biography
Johannes Flintrop was born in
Barmen (Wuppertal) to devout working class parents. After his theological studies at theUniversity of Münster , he was ordained a Pastor inCologne in 1927. At the age of 23, he initially served the congregation Heart of Jesus in Cologne Mülheim, before becoming a vicar general to the congregation of St. Lambert atMettmann in 1933.In 1941, he admitted to youth of the Catholic Kolping workers society that the war had long not been won, and that "it is likely that we (German troops) too committed war atrocities" in the Soviet Union. For this he was imprisoned in Düsseldorf, from where he was transferred to the
concentration camp at Dachau onMay 1 ,1942 . He died onAugust 28 ,1943 , officially of unknown causes. Surviving inmates of the concentration camp reported that he was forcefully subjected to medical experiments and died as a result of them. He was cremated and buried in his hometown of Barmen by the congregation of St.Lambert in 1943 in silent protest. He has a main street in Mettmann named in his memory.References
* Erich Klausener (1983). Zum Widerstand der Katholiken im Dritten Reich. Informationszentrum Berlin. Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Stauffenbergstrasse. Berlin.
* Franz Kloidt (1962). Verräter oder Märtyrer? Dokumentation katholischer Blutzeugen der nationalsozialistischen Kirchenverfolgung geben Antwort. Patmos Verlag. Düsseldorf.
* Rev. Helmut Moll (1997). Johannes Flintrop – ein katholischer Priester aus Barmen in den Fängen des Nationalsozialismus. "In": [http://www.bgv-online.de/inhalt_romerike.html Romerike Berge] 47. Heft 3, pp. 21-24.
* Rev. Helmut Moll (Ed.) (1999). Zeugen für Christus: das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhunderts. Schöningh Verlag. Paderborn, pp. 455-459.External links
* [http://www.mettmann.de/stadtportrait/persoenlichkeiten/flintrop.php Neanderthal-Stadt Mettmann - Johannes Flintrop ] at www.mettmann.de
* [http://www.koelner-maertyrer.de/flintrop.html Koelner-maertyrer.de ] at www.koelner-maertyrer.de
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