Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
KORTENDIECK
forename(s)
Theodore (pl. Teodor)
forename(s)
versions/aliases
Theodor
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (SHJ missionaries - MSC)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
diocese / province
Warmia diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2018.09.02]
date and place
of death
04.02.1945
Prositytoday: Bisztynek gm., Bartoszyce pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
details of death
During the final Russian winter offensive of 1945 of the World War II,started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, marked by numerous gang rapes, beatings and maltreatment of women by Russians soldiers, left his monastery — in accordance with the orders of the German authorities (Biskupiec was occupied by the Russians on 23.01.1945).
Stopped at the parish in Prosity, c. 35 km north–west of Biskupiec, a village in the middle of the Masurian forests.
The Russians — a few Russian soldiers — in the rectory appeared prob. on the day they entering the village.
Demanded watches.
Took two priests (Fr Adalbert Prothmann and Fr Kortendieck) out and murdered.
The other version states that was murdered by the parish church gate — when Russian soldiers started shooting from the church's bell tower.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
07.02.1887
Lüdinghausentoday: Coesfeld dist., Münster reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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[access: 2022.08.05]
religious vows
14.09.1906 (temporary)
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
11.08.1911 (Paderborn cathedralmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.05.30])
positions held
1928 – 1945
superior {Biskupiecalso: Biskupiec Reszelski
today: Biskupiec gm., Olsztyn pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.14], monastery, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC}
friar {Hammtoday: Hamm urban dist., Arnsberg reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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[access: 2023.03.16], monastery, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC}, monastery administrator
from c. 1926
friar {Vussemtoday: district in Mechernich, Euskirchen dist., Cologne reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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[access: 2023.03.16], monastery, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC}, socius to master of novitiate
till 1926
friar {Hiltruptoday: district in Münster, Münster city dist., Münster reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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[access: 2023.03.16], Provincial House, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC}, Greek teacher in Apostolic School
student {Oeventroptoday: district of Arnsberg, Hochsauerland dist., Arnsberg reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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[access: 2023.03.16], philosophy and theology, monastery, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC}
from 1905
novitiate {Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC}
others related
in death
PROTHMANNClick to display biography Adalbert, BREHMClick to display biography William, CHMIELEWSKIClick to display biography John Paul, FUCHSClick to display biography Godfrey, HUHNClick to display biography Paul, KLEMENTClick to display biography Bernard, LANGKAUClick to display biography Otto, LINDENBLATTClick to display biography John, LINKAClick to display biography Arthur, LUDWIGClick to display biography Francis, LUNKWITZClick to display biography Paul, MARQUARDTClick to display biography John, PREUSCHOFFClick to display biography Clement, RAHMELClick to display biography Engelbert, SCHIKOWSKIClick to display biography Ulrich, SCHULZClick to display biography Arthur, SCHWARTZClick to display biography Paul, SIEGELClick to display biography Bruno Alexander, STEINKIClick to display biography Joseph, ŚWITALSKIClick to display biography Vladislav Bronislaus, WEICHSELClick to display biography Bruno, WILKEClick to display biography George, ZAGERMANNClick to display biography Francis, ZIEMETZKIClick to display biography Joachim
murder sites
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Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the II World War in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called Intelligenzaktion, in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30])
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personal:
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[access: 2013.05.19], www.bisztynek24.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.06.23], files.bildarchiv-ostpreussen.deClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.05.30],
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[access: 2018.02.15]
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