Bernhard Schwentner

Bernhard Schwentner (28 September 1891 in Schwerin – 30 October 1944 near Brandenburg-Görden) was a German Catholic clergyman.

Until he was called into the military, Schwentner worked at the St.-Ansgar-Kirche/Kleiner Michel in Hamburg as a vicar and a teacher.

The respectable clergyman viewed the Nazis' rise to power with wariness and scepticism.

Schwentner met often with his officer friends from the Rechlin airbase, but in 1944, he was denounced by at least one of them to the Gestapo.

It had on it a bronze portrait of Schwentner with a thorny wreath, and it contained the urn with his ashes.