Ingbert Naab, born Karl Borromäus Naab on 5 November 1885 in Dahn, Germany, was a Catholic priest and Capuchin friar. Ordained in 1910, he worked as a pastor, theology lecturer, seminary director and editor of Catholic youth journals. From as early as 1923, he publicly warned against Nazi racial ideology, arguing that it was incompatible with Christianity and basic ethics. He became a close literary collaborator of journalist Fritz Gerlich in the anti-Nazi weekly Der gerade Weg. In 1932 Naab addressed an open letter to Adolf Hitler and publicly called Mein Kampf a “handbook of demagogy.” After the Nazi takeover, he went into hiding under the name “Peregrinus” and fled through Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Italy. He died in Strasbourg on 28 March 1935.
