Heinrich Kötter

Heinrich Kötter visits the High School in Rheine. After the Abitur he begins his theological training in Münster, which he continues in Innsbruck, where he is the student association Unitas-Norica join. After further studies in Munich, he was ordained a priest in Münster in 1938.

First he is appointed as a Kaplan in Hameln an der Weser and then transferred to Duderstadt. In the case of a pastoral visit to the Tiflingerode branch, he is to have done to a woman with tolerable utterances which are toUndermining the inner and outer front“to be done, according to the accusation of the Gestapo. During his front holiday, the husband had received knowledge of the conversation and Kaplan Heinrich Kötter therefore indicated. The content of the conversation has become nothing more obvious. On October 3, 1941, Heinrich Kötter was arrested by the Gestapo during a convene in Duderstadt for the destruction of military forces and sent to the police prison in Hannover. The next day is the first take, the next on the 7th. October 1941;Here he is forced to sign a fake protocol. He then gets the opportunity to inform his parents and the ecclesiastical authorities of arrest. On 11 November 1941, he will be transferred to the Liebenau Labour Camp, a branch of the Hannover Police Department. Liebenau is considered to be notorious and as a “run store”, because all the work is to be done in the course of the course. After his own testimonials, he reacts his anger over the Gestapo with trees.

Transport to KZ Dachau begins on 20 November 1941, it reaches after various delays on 5. December 1941 the KZ. During his period of detention, as Heinrich Hennen, he belongs most of the time to the Plantation Working Command;here he has to pull the plough and the egg. He can escape the harassment of the so-called mare elders in the last period of detention as a predator and can help numerous prisoners, especially in the time of the Fleckfieber epidemic (he himself remains spared).

On 6. May 1945, a day after Heinrich Hennen, he is released as one of the last. He will find accommodation at the Dachauer Stadtpfarrer Friedrich Plantlt, for a short time will take over an auxiliary office in Kolbermoor/Oberbayern. July 1945 at the parental court in Laggenheck recover from the KZ-Strapazen. In February 1946 he returns to Duderstadt.

After his retirement as a pastor at St. Ludgeri in Ahlen, he took the place of a Vicarius Cooperator at St. Nikomedes in Borghorst in 1972, where he died after severe illness on 15.6.1973.