Wolfgang Kusserow (1 March 1922 – 28 March 1942) was executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison for conscientiously objecting induction into the German Army because of his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness.

One of his older brothers, Wilhelm Kusserow, had similarly been executed on 27 April 1940 for refusing conscription on grounds of his faith.

Wolfgang Kusserow

Family

Kusserow was one of eleven children born to Franz Karl Paul Kusserow and Hilda Kusserow in Bochum, Germany, a family of Jehovah's Witnesses that were persecuted for their religion during the Nazi regime.

Wolfgang Kusserow

Annemarie Kusserow, one of Wilhelm and Wolfgang's sisters, preserved a 1000-piece archive documenting the persecution of the family by the Nazi regime. In defiance of her will, the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, continues to hold the archive. She had left the archive to the Jehovah's Witnesses in her will.

Wolfgang Kusserow

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Individuals featured in Parallel Journeys: Wolfgang Kusserow

1922 births

1942 deaths

Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

German Jehovah's Witnesses

People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine

German people executed by Nazi Germany

German Christian pacifists

Conscientious objectors