Georg Maria Stenz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Maria Stenz

German missionary to Shandong

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1869

Place of Birth: Horhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Apr-1928

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Georg Maria Stenz (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Xue Tiánzi, 22 November 1869 – 23 April 1928) was a Catholic missionary of the Society of the Divine Word in Shandong during the period from 1893 to 1927.
He was involved in two major incidents where force was used against Catholic missionaries in Shandong, the Juye incident and the Jietou incident.
The Juye incident (1897) was an attack on Stenz's mission station in Zhang Jia Village in which two German missionaries were killed.
Stenz, who was the likely target of the attack, managed to hide and escaped unharmed.
The incident was used by the German Empire to justify the occupation of Qingdao.
In the Jietou incident, Stenz and a group of Chinese Christians were mistreated and held prisoner in the village of Jietou (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Jietóu zhèn, Rizhao) for three days (8–11 November 1898) resulting in German military intervention and compensation claims.