# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-henkes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:30.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-henkes"
name: "Richard Henkes"
slug: "richard-henkes"
description: "Richard Henkes was a German Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines). Henkes served as a teacher but was best known for his preaching abilities in the pulpit where he made strong-worded condemnations of Nazism and the actions the Nazis were said to have made. Henkes offered indirect assistance to the German Resistance during World War II and was one of the more vocal German priests to condemn Nazism. This often worried his superiors who believed that Henkes placed his schools at great risk. He was critical of the regime's murder of the disabled and other atrocities which forced the S.S. to arrest him. His first arrest in 1938 saw him released but his second arrest in 1943 saw him sent to the Dachau concentration camp. It was during that time that he befriended Josef Beran who taught him the Czech language."
tagline: "German Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (1900–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henkes_richard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1900-05-26"
deathDate: "1945-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.29
  momentum:             4.018939393939394
  historical:           8.543089333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://pater-richard-henkes.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ريتشارد هينكس (قديس كاثوليكى من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Henkes"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henkes"
    title: "Richard Henkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump