Johannes Flintrop

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Johannes Flintrop (born May 23, 1904 in Barmen , today Wuppertal ; † August 18, 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a German Roman Catholic priest , resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Johannes Flintrop studied theology and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . There he became a member of the Catholic student association AV Arminia zu Münster in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV). In 1927 Flintrop was ordained a priest in Cologne Cathedral . At first Johannes Flintrop was chaplain in the parish Herz Jesu in Cologne-Mülheim , since 1932 he was chaplain at the Lambertus Church in Mettmann .

He was also a committed member of the Kolping Society and its district council. The Kolping Society was under special scrutiny as a “refuge for the rebels” during the Nazi era. Because of his critical statements against the Nazi regime, Flintrop was arrested and initially imprisoned in the Düsseldorf Ulmer Höh of the Düsseldorf prison. On April 13, 1942, Flintrop was taken to the Dachau concentration camp . There he died on August 18, 1942, presumably as a result of "medical" experiments.

The Requiem in Mettmann for Johannes Flintrop became a silent protest against National Socialism . After the war, the city council of Mettmann decided to name the former Wilhelmstrasse after Johannes Flintrop. His urn was buried near his birthplace on the Flintrop family grave in the Schützenstrasse cemetery of the parish of St. Antonius in Barmen . A grave of honor for Flintrop's religious brother Bernhard Letterhaus was erected a few meters away in 2010 .

memory

The Catholic Church accepted chaplain Johannes Flintrop in 1999 as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

Stumbling block for Johannes Flintrop in Wuppertal

For John Flintrop was in John Flintrop-25-27 Mettmann, and Wuppertal, Meisenstraße 22 per one, stumbling block set.

literature

  • Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century . Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 345-349.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barmen: A stumbling block in memory of the chaplain Johannes Flintrop Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from February 11, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Flintrop, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Catholic chaplain and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1942
Place of death Dachau concentration camp