Johannes Prassek

Johannes Prassek (13 August 1911 – 10 November 1943) was a German Catholic priest, and one of the Lübeck martyrs, guillotined for opposing the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler in 1943.

[1][3] Born in Barmbek, Prassek came from a working class Hamburg family, and financially struggled through his studies in theology.

They shared disapproval of the Nazi regime, and Prassek introduced Stellbrink to his Catholic colleagues, Hermann Lange and Eduard Mueller.

[1] Then, following the 28 March 1942 RAF air raid, after which Stellbrink tended wounded, he delivered a Palm Sunday sermon which attributed the bombing to divine punishment.

Arrested in May 1942, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court in June 1943, in the "Lübeck Christians’ Trial", and executed on 10 November 1943 in Hamburg, alongside the other priests.