Fritz Gerlich was a German historian and journalist who became a prominent opponent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Born in Stettin in 1883, he initially worked as an archivist and editor before founding the weekly newspaper *Der Gerade Weg* (The Straight Path). After converting to Catholicism in 1931, his resistance against national socialism was deeply influenced by the social teachings of the Church. He was arrested by the Nazi regime in 1933 and was later executed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1934.