Johann Herrlinger (20.10.1902 Munich – 2.6.1965 Munich)

In 1922, the bank clerk Johann Herrlinger left the Catholic church at the age of 20 and was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness. Essential activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Third Reich took place in his parents’ garden house at Richthofenstraße 10 (today called Rodensteinstraße) in Großhadern. There, illegal writings of the Jehovah's Witnesses were duplicated regularly and organizational meetings held. At the beginning of October 1934, a meeting called by Johann Kölbl about sending the letter of protest to the Reich government took place there. Herrlinger was arrested on September 4, 1936 and sentenced on March 2, 1937 by the Munich Special Court to nine months in prison. In the judgment, his lively activity as leader of a group of ten Jehovah's Witnesses was emphasized.

After the end of the NS regime, he married Therese Jung on August 31, 1945; her first husband Wilhelm died in 1941 as a result of the imprisonment and persecution as a Jehovah's Witness. Johann Herrlinger was active in a Munich community of Jehovah's Witnesses until his death, as was his wife Therese, who died three years after he did.