RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alojs Andritzki

1914 - 1943

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Alojs Andritzki (firstname also written Aloys, in Upper Sorbian Alojs Andricki, '2 July 1914 - 3 February 1943) was a Sorbian Roman Catholic priest who suffered martyrdom in the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1943. He was ordained as a priest just prior to the beginning of World War II in which he became a vocal critic of the Nazi regime and its actions; this earned him their ire and he was arrested before being sent to the Dachau concentration camp where he was administered a lethal injection. His beatification was celebrated in Dresden on 13 June 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alojs Andritzki is the 2,012th most popular religious figure (down from 2,011th in 2019), the 3,051st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,351st in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alojs Andritzki ranks 2,012 out of 3,187. Before him are Pedro Barreto, Friar Julian, John Scholasticus, Alexius of Constantinople, Gershom ben Judah, and Carlo Acutis. After him are Peter Fourier, Serafino Vannutelli, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Cuthbert, Taisen Deshimaru, and Anatolius of Laodicea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Alojs Andritzki ranks 168. Before him are Adolf Diekmann, Maxim of Bulgaria, Giorgio Almirante, Tito Okello, Mihailo Lalić, and Albert Soboul. After him are Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Taisen Deshimaru, Jerry Siegel, Kenny Clarke, Beatrice Straight, and Henri Langlois. Among people deceased in 1943, Alojs Andritzki ranks 103. Before him are Ludwig von Reuter, Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Willi Graf, Otto Freundlich, Otto Rühle, and Alexander Matrosov. After him are Daisy, Princess of Pless, Gyula Peidl, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Johann Niemann, Zabel Yesayan, and Muhamed Mehmedbašić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alojs Andritzki ranks 3,053 out of 7,253. Before him are Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425), Adolph Frank (1834), Konrad Duden (1829), Stefan Heym (1913), and Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792). After him are Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Solomon Perel (1925), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870), and Heinrich Schrader (1767).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Alojs Andritzki ranks 77. Before him are Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644), Willigis (940), Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg (1664), Karl Lehmann (1936), Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671), and Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407). After him are Alfred Delp (1907), Berthold (1180), Ludwig Kaas (1881), Hans Talhoffer (1420), Johannes Cocceius (1603), and Engelbert II of Berg (1185).

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