Peter Neuenheuser

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Peter Hubert Neuenheuser (born April 19, 1877 in Düsseldorf ; † February 6, 1940 in Cologne-Lindenthal ) was a Catholic clergyman and a victim of the National Socialists .

Life

Neuenheuser grew up in Opladen and Büttgen . He studied philology in Freiburg im Üechtland , Paris , Marburg , Münster and Bonn as well as Catholic theology in Bonn and Cologne . In Bonn he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Novesia Bonn in the CV . In 1904 he was at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn with the work studies on Martin Opitz in terms of its treatment of nature to Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1906 he was ordained a priest in Cologne Cathedral . In 1913 he became director of studies and rector of the Collegium Aloysianum , a Catholic grammar school with boarding school in Opladen . In 1933 he was appointed monsignor .

On December 31, 1937, he was deposed as spiritual director of the Aloysianum and taken into protective custody by the National Socialists for "alleged threats" . Neuenheuser died in 1940 at the age of 62 in a Cologne hospital and was buried in Büttgen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death certificate No. 369 from February 7, 1940, registry office Cologne Lindenthal. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .