Otto Neururer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Neururer

Catholic priest

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1882

Place of Birth: Fließ, Tyrol, Austria

Date of Death: 03-Jun-1940

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Otto Neururer (25 March 1882 – 30 May 1940) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and was the first priest to die in a Nazi concentration camp.
Neururer did his studies for the priesthood in Brixen before he served as a teacher and pastor in several cities before settling in 1932 in Götzens near Innsbruck.
He was arrested in 1938 for attempting to persuade a girl not to be wed to a man of questionable morals and was sent to Dachau before being transferred to Buchenwald where he died after being hanged upside down.Neururer's beatification was celebrated on 24 November 1996 based on the fact that he died "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith).