function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church
more 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 diocese
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2018.09.02]

date and place of birth

07.02.1887

Lüdinghausen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

religious vows

14.09.1906 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

11.08.1911 (Paderborn cathedral)

positions held

superior at Biskupiec monastery (1928‑45), f. administrator of Hamm monastery, f. socius of the novititate in Vussem, f. friar in Hiltrup (do 1926) — Greek teacher at Apostolic School, f. theology and philosophy student in Oeventrop (Arnsberg) in Germany, novitiate from 1905

date and place of death

04.02.1945

Prosity (Bartoszyce county)

cause of death

mass murder

details of death

During the final Russian winter offensive of 1945 of the II World War — started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 — marked by numerous gang rapes, beatings and maltreatment of women by Russians soldiers, couple of Russians soldiers entered the vicarage and demanded watches. Took two priests (Fr Adalbert Prothmann and Fr Kortendieck) out and murdered. The other version states that he was murdered by the parish church gate — Russian soldiers started shooting from the church's bell tower.

perpetrators

Russians

others related in death

PROTHMANN Adalbert, BREHM William, CHMIELEWSKI John Paul, FUCHS Godfrey, HUHN Paul, KLEMENT Bernard, LANGKAU Otto, LINDENBLATT John, LINKA Arthur, LUDWIG Francis, LUNKWITZ Paul, MARQUARDT John, PREUSCHOFF Clement, RAHMEL Engelbert, SCHIKOWSKI Ulrich, SCHULZ Arthur, SCHWARTZ Paul, SIEGEL Bruno Alexander, STEINKI Joseph, ŚWITALSKI Vladislav Bronislaus, WEICHSEL Bruno, WILKE George, ZAGERMANN Francis, ZIEMETZKI Joachim

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

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. „The 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 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.org [access: 2015.09.30])

sources

personal:
gross-kleeberg.de [access: 2013.05.19], www.bisztynek24.pl [access: 2013.06.23], files.bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de [access: 2020.05.30]
original images:
thema.erzbistum-koeln.de [access: 2018.02.15]