Background
Nikolaus Gross was born on 30 September 1898 in Niederwenigern (Ruhr).
Nikolaus Gross was born on 30 September 1898 in Niederwenigern (Ruhr).
A miner who rose to become a trade union official and editor in 1930 of the Westdeutschen Arbeiterzeitung (West German Workers' Paper).
For his attempts to oppose Nazism, he was arrested on 12 August 1944 and sentenced to death by the People’s Court. Eventually executed on 23 January 1945.
Gross opposed Nazism from the outset and later sought to organize resistance among Catholic workers in preparation for the July plot of 1944.
