Johann Burger (4.1.1902 Landau/Pfalz – 30.12.1996 Wartenberg/Munich)

Burger, a bandagist who left the Protestant Church in 1930 as a 28-year-old single man, joined the Earnest Bible Researchers, from 1931 onward the Jehovah's Witnesses. The content of the leaflet "Resolution," which protested against the Nazi regime's persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, was approved at a congress in Switzerland in 1936. Johann Burger was among the approximately 300 German Jehovah's Witnesses who had traveled from Germany to the Lucerne Congress unlawfully. In contrast to many who were apprehended and imprisoned on the night of their return journey, he managed to make it home. When the leaflets were distributed throughout the Third Reich on December 12, 1936, he distributed 50 copies in Munich-Neuhausen. In the end he was arrested and sentenced to three months in prison on March 6, 1937 for having attended the Lucerne Congress. Immediately after completing his sentence, he was sent to Dachau Concentration Camp. From there he was tried again on August 24, 1937, this time for his involvement in the dissemination of the protest leaflets, which had now been exposed. He was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment. No detailed information is currently available regarding the period after his release on March 24, 1938 until 1945. Johann Burger survived the Third Reich and was part of a Munich community of Jehovah's Witnesses until his death.