Johann Hutterer (26.1.1888 Katzbach near Cham – 7.10.1958 Dachau)

This married landscape gardener was baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness in 1923. Previously, he had belonged to the Catholic church. On December 12, 1936, he distributed 50 protest flyers of the Lucerne “Resolutions” against the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany. After the arrest of Kuno Duffner, he served as the leader of the Munich city center subgroup, however he was often represented by others due to his professional demands. In 1937, Hutterer played a major role in the second protest action, for which he took over more than a thousand flyers, which he passed on to other Jehovah's Witnesses, and he distributed 25 himself. After the imprisonment of Franz Korn, he was also responsible for the book warehouse in the Implerstraße. Hutterer was imprisoned on April 8, 1937. The Gestapo report of July 13, 1937, reads: “He rejects the ‘German Greeting,’ service in the army and war, and declares that for him, the laws of Jehovah supersede those of the state.” (StAM, StAnw 9132) On August 24, 1937, Hutterer was sentenced by the Munich Special Court to nine months in prison. After four months in investigative custody, he claimed during the proceedings that he would no longer act on behalf of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

However, he did not subsequently adhere to this. On November 28, 1942, he was taken into custody again, and on February 10, 1944, sentenced by the Munich District Court to one year and three months in prison for supporting the Jehovah's Witnesses, an association that served “anti-military purposes”. Johann Hutterer was active as a Jehovah's Witness even after the war.