Wilhelm Hengelbrock

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Wilhelm Hengelbrock FSC (born November 10, 1907 in Osnabrück , † February 12, 1945 in Manila , Philippines) was a German friar .

Life

In 1930 Wilhelm Hengelbrock entered the novitiate of the brothers of the Christian schools in Honnef am Rhein and received the religious name of Brother Mutwald William. He finished the scholasticate in Maria-Tann in Kirnach-Villingen in the Black Forest in 1935. After graduating from the English teacher training college in the Philippines, he worked as a teacher and missionary at a religious school in the English colony of Malacca .

After the beginning of the Second World War he was expelled and taught at De La Salle College in Manila. On February 12, 1945, Brother Mutwald William was killed by Japanese soldiers in the college chapel. With him, 15 other school brothers and 25 civilians who had sought refuge in the college died in the massacre .

The 41 victims were exhumed in 1949 and buried in three coffins on February 12, 1949 in the La Loma cemetery in Quezon.

Honor

The Catholic Church accepted Brother Wilhelm Hengelbrock in 1999 as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

  • Francis J. Cosgrave: The Manila Bloodbath on February 12, 1945 . (German translation)
  • Short History of the House 1945–1953 . La Sallite vol. 21, no. 9, Jan. 1957 and vol. 15, no.2 March 1950
  • Andrew B. Gonzalez FSC and Alejandro T. Reyes: These Hallowed Halls. The events of February 1945 at De La Salle College . Manila 1996; ISBN 971-555-166-1
  • Josefina Alburo: Seventy-five years of memories (Commemorative Calendar), Manila DLSC, undated
  • 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 II, p. 1622.
  • Hermann Rieke-Benninghaus: Br. Mutwald William. Wilhelm Hengelbrock FSC, Life for Christ . Dinklage 2005; ISBN 3-938929-01-4
  • Hermann Rieke-Benninghaus: Witnesses for Faith . Verlag Hermann Rieke-Benninghaus, Dinklage 2005; ISBN 3-938929-06-5

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personal data
SURNAME Hengelbrock, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mutwald William (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück , Hanover Province , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1945
Place of death Manila