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Picture on the left: The Family Father Nikolaus Groß with his youngest son Bernhard; Middle: The journalist Nikolaus Groß at his desk in the Kettelerhaus in Cologne; Picture on the right: The resistance fighter Nikolaus Groß facing the "People`s court" on the day, when he was sentenced.
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| 30th September 1898 |
Born in Niederwenigern near Hattingen on the Ruhr
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| 2nd October 1898 |
Baptism in the Catholic St. Mauritius parish church in Niederwenigern
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| 1905 - 1912 |
Attending school in Niederwenigern
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| April 1912 - December 1914 |
Young worker in the sheet metal and tube factory of the Company Weppen in Altendorf (Ruhr) (today Essen)
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| January 1915 - March 1919 |
Employment on the pit "Dahlhauser Tiefbau", starting as an apprentice miner finishing with the grade of face worker
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| June 1917 |
Joining the Association of Christian miners of Germany;
attending evening courses and rhetorical seminars |
| 1918 |
Joining the German "Zentrumspartei"
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| 6th June 1919 |
Joining the St. Antonius Association of (young) mine workers in Niederwenigern
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| July 1920 - June 1921 |
Youth secretary in the Association of Christian miners of Germany for the district of Oberhausen
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| July 1921 - May 1922 |
Assistant editor of the "Bergknappe" (official newspaper of the Association of Christian miners of Germany) in Essen
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| February / March 1922 |
Working for the trade union in the Mansfeld copper mines (near Eisleben/Harz); paying out strike monies |
| June 1922 - October 1922 |
Trade union secretary in Waldenburg, Lower Silesia
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| November 1922 - November 1924 |
Head of the Association of Christian miners of Germany in the district of Zwickau/Saxonia
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| 24th May 1923 |
Church wedding with Elisabeth Koch
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| December 1924 - December 1926 |
Trade Union secretary in Bottrop
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| January 1927 - April 1927 |
Assistant editor of the West German Workers` newspaper, the official paper of the KAB (Catholic Working Class Movement) in Mönchengladbach
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| April 1927 - 1939 |
Chief editor of the West German Workers` newspaper (in 1935 renamed into Kettelerwacht (Ketteler guardian) thus becoming member in the committee of the West German association
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| End of January 1930 |
Moving to Cologne
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| 1932 |
Participating in the National Catholic Congress in Essen
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| 13rd July 1934 |
Men`s pilgrimage to Mainz
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| from April 1937 |
Editor of the bi-weekly magazine "St. Nikolaus paper" for the mission of sailors on inland waterways
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| November 1938 |
Final ban of the "Ketteler-Wacht"; first time participation in the working group "Men`s spiritual welfare" founded by the Bishop of Fulda and convened once a year
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| from 1939 |
Working for the committee of the Catholic Working Class Movement in the Ketteler house in Cologne; Writing; Lectures in different places; contacts with Bishop Dietz in Fulda |
| until 1941 |
Publication of religious booklets (having been cut off from paper distribution)
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| 1942 |
Meeting Alfred Delp SJ, a member of the "Kreisauer Kreis" (a resistance group based in the east) in Fulda, from then on more frequent meetings; Groß and Delp were concerned with "Men`s spiritual welfare". Two persons from this working group were beatified after their death: Nikolaus Groß and the monk Rupert Mayer.
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| from end of 1942 |
Talks with Bernhard Letterhaus and Jakob Kaiser about the subversive plans of the "Goerdeler-Kreis"; resistance in the "Kölner-Kreis" in association with the national committee of the Catholic Working Class Movement.
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| February 1943 |
Taking part in a meeting with Goedeler, Kaiser, Prelate Müller in the Ketteler house
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| October 1943 |
Meeting Goerdeler and Kaiser in Berlin; travelling to Bartholomäus Kossmann in Wiesbaden with the aim of recruiting him as a political representative
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| 11st August 1944 |
Visiting Mrs. Letterhaus and informing her about the arrest of her husband on 25th July
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| 12nd August 1944 |
Arrested by Cologne Gestapo (secret state police) and transferred to the concentration camp Ravensbrück
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| second half of 1944 |
Transfer to Berlin-Tegel
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| 15th January 1945 |
Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof under the chair of Roland Freisler
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| 23rd January 1945 |
Execution in the prison Berlin-Plötzensee by hanging
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Chronologie Nikolaus Groß
