Career
He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs. Lange was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011. They copied and distributed the anti-Nazi sermons of Bishop August von Galen of Munster.
Then, following a March 28, 1942 Royal Air Force airraid, after which Stellbrink tended wounded, he delivered a Palm Sunday sermon which attributed the bombing to divine punishment.
Stellbrink was arrested, followed by the three Catholic priests, and each were sentenced to death.