Heinrich Rupieper

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Heinrich Rupieper (born May 23, 1899 in Wanne-Eickel , † January 1, 1964 in Cologne ) was a German Catholic clergyman and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Rupieper graduated in Catholic theology and received in 1926 in the Great Cathedral in Paderborn by Bishop Caspar Klein the priesthood . After the beginning of the National Socialist rule he was accused as early as 1934 of having violated the " Ordinance of the Reich President to ward off insidious attacks against the government of the national insurrection" of March 21, 1933 (revised since December 20, 1934 as the so-called Heimtückegesetz ). The Dortmund special court charged him with statements about the alleged Jewish descent of Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg . However, a given conviction fell under the Law on Granting Impunity of August 7, 1934.

Arrest and deportation to Dachau

After a Nazi man was stabbed to death by an alcoholized man from the community in Kirchhundem in 1935 , Vicar Rupieper was accused of having prepared the spiritual breeding ground for the deed with his political sermons. He was then taken into protective custody and sentenced by the Dortmund Special Court on December 13, 1935 to four years in prison. For alleged financial irregularities Rupieper was in another trial on 12 February 1936 by the District Court of Paderborn taking into account the four-year prison road to seven years in prison convicted. First detained in prison Werl , he was on 8 January 1937 the camp Esterwegen spent, from there on September 15, 1939 in the Neuengamme concentration camp Dachau concentration camp, where he and finally on June 18, 1942, the prisoner number 30505 in the so-called pastor block was imprisoned . After the liberation by American troops on April 29, 1945, Rupieper brought the urn containing the ashes of parish vicar Friedrich Karl Petersen, who was martyred to death in Dachau, to Schmallenberg in the Sauerland , where it was buried in the priest's crypt on August 29, 1945.

Return and further service

After his return home, the rupee, who was emaciated to just 40 kilograms, was only able to return to his priestly service after a long recovery period. In 1946 he took on a position as parish vicar at St. Antonius in Oberschledorn , where he retired in 1955. As an emeritus he moved to Cologne- Merheim and helped out in the parish of St. Elisabeth in Cologne- Höhenberg .

literature

  • Ecclesiastical official gazette for the diocese of Essen from April 3, 1964, 7th year, item 7, p. 51.
  • Gerhard Baumjohann: World priest of the Archdiocese of Paderborn in the dispute with National Socialism , in: Paul-Werner Scheele (Ed.): Paderbornensis ecclesia. Contributions to the history of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Festschrift for Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger on the occasion of his 80th birthday on September 23, 1972 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh Paderborn 1972, ISBN 3-506-77624-X , pp. 711-746, here pp. 733 and 740.
  • Ulrich von Hehl (Ed.): Priest under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh Paderborn 1996³, ISBN 3-506-79839-1 , Vol. II, p. 1212.
  • Helmut Moll (Hrsg.): Witnesses for Christ - The German Martyrology of the 20th Century. Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zurich 1999, Vol. I, ISBN 978-3-506-78080-5 , p. 492.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. 1933 I, p. 135 f.
personal data
SURNAME Rupee, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1964
Place of death Cologne