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Nikolaus-Groß-Platz

Nikolaus Groß

Niederwenigern 1898 - Berlin-Plötzensee 1945
German journalist and editor of the Westdeutsche Arbeiterzeitung - the organ of the Katholische Arbeitnehmer-Bewegung (K.A.B.); resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich. Beatified in 2001.
(Wikipedia)

Anneliese Quinders
date?

Description

Commemorative plaque with portrait and text.
Identical plaques are in Gladbeck and in Bochum-Wattenscheid.

Inscription(s)

"man muß gott mehr gehorchen
als den menschen"

nikolaus groß
30.09.1898 †23.01.1945
redakteur der kab-zeitung
widerstandskämpfer+märtyrer
seligsprechung 7.oktober 2001

"One must obey God rather
than people"

Nicholas Groß
30.09.1898 †23.01.1945
Editor of the KAB newspaper
resistance fighter+martyr
beatification 7 October 2001

Signature

A. Quinders (with a butterfly having on one of its wings the monogram AQ).

Sculptor

Anneliese Quinders (Gelsenkirchen c. 1937), sculptress of Gladbeck.

Locatie (N 51°49'49" - E 6°14'40") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw807; Photograph: 28 July 2022
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