Heinrich Ruster
Heinrich Ruster (born October 14, 1884 in Kuchenheim / Euskirchen ; † October 23, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Heinrich Ruster, son of a teacher (in Kuchenheim) and later vice principal of an elementary school in Bonn, studied Catholic theology , later also philosophy and education at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . During the First World War he was a volunteer and gave up his studies after the war. He worked as a writer and from 1925 was a lecturer in popular education , reader psychology and civics at the library school of the Borromeo Association in Bonn . He was a member of the Peace Association of German Catholics .
He has published numerous works and books on Christian values and philosophical issues. In the 1930s he made public anti-Nazi speeches. Because of his publicly expressed refusal to exaggerate Adolf Hitler religiously, he was finally arrested in Bonn in 1937. He was sentenced to four months in prison by a Cologne special court for violating the treachery law for "subversive statements" . In January 1940 he was arrested again, this time by the Gestapo . He was accused of "attempts to decompose Wehrmacht members" and of "maliciously hateful, inflammatory and low-minded statements about leading figures of the state or the NSDAP". He was sentenced to ten months in prison. After serving his sentence, Ruster was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1942. According to the camp doctor, he died of "general weakness" after being mistreated. According to fellow inmate Franz Ballhorn , he was murdered.
Heinrich Ruster had been married to Katharina Kleinsorg since 1932.
In 1999 the Catholic Church accepted Heinrich Ruster as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .
literature
- Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 401-405.
- Josef Niesen: Heinrich Ruster. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 2010.
- Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .
Web links
- Literature about Heinrich Ruster in the catalog of the German National Library
- Moll, Helmut: Catholics under Hitler's terror in the Euskirchen area
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Writer Heinrich Ruster (1884-1942)" ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Diözesanbliothek Cologne, accessed on September 16, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruster, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuchenheim , Euskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1942 |
| Place of death | Sachsenhausen concentration camp |