Heinrich Küppers (pastor)

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Heinrich Küppers (born February 5, 1896 in Bockum , today Krefeld , † October 21, 1955 in Oberhausen ) was a Catholic pastor and opponent of the Nazi regime.

Life

Registration card of Heinrich Küppers as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau

Küppers worked from 1929 to 1945 as a chaplain in the Catholic parish of St. Joseph in Oberhausen-Styrum , where he particularly sought pastoral care for young people. The critic of the Nazi regime was imprisoned several times by the Gestapo since 1935 and committed to the Dachau concentration camp in 1944 . He survived the concentration camp and after 1945 was entrusted with the pastoral position of St. Albertus Magnus in Mülheim-Styrum . When he died in 1955 at the age of 59, thousands of people took part in a funeral procession from Styrum to Oberhausen to pay their final respects.

literature

  • Barbara Kaufhold: Faith under National Socialism in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Edited by the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History. Klartext Verlag Essen, 2006, pp. 268–269.

Other sources

  • City Archives Mülheim an der Ruhr, 1550 No. 190
  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1440
  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 2001/3 No. 14

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personal data
SURNAME Küppers, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic pastor and opponent of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockum , today Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1955
Place of death Oberhausen