Bernhard Letterhaus

Bernhard Letterhaus (10 July 1894, Barmen – 14 November 1944) was a German Catholic Trade Unionist and member of the resistance to Nazism.

He served in World War I and was then secretary of the Catholic Labour Movement in Mönchengladbach.

He moved to Cologne where he was in contact with Nikolaus Gross, a fellow Catholic opponent of the Nazis.

Upon posting to the OKW in Berlin he developed contacts with the 20 July plot conspirators including Carl Goerdeler's group.

He was arrested in its aftermath, tried by the People's Court, sentenced to death by Roland Freisler and executed at Plötzensee Prison the next day.

Bernhard Letterhaus at the People's Court
Left: Statue of Bernhard Letterhaus at the city hall tower of Cologne