Catholic priest Henrik Leinket (48), a German living on the Costa del Sol, admitted to the media that he recently experienced a terrible shock when he learned that he was the grandson of Heinrich Himmler. Leinket, who, among other things, works as a counselor for couples and partially spreads the teachings of the Bible, came across this while watching a documentary about Himmler. On further searching on the Internet, he noticed that Himmler’s mistress Hedwig Potthast bears a striking resemblance to his grandmother and shares the same dates of birth and death.
Potthast, who worked at Gestapo headquarters, had an affair with Himmler from 1940 to 1945 and had two children with him, Helge and Nanette-Dorothea. According to Leinket’s research, Himmler formally stated that he was Nanette-Dorothea’s father. Leinket found this out from his mother’s birth certificate. After Himmler’s death, Potthast married the merchant Hans Staeck; his surname was also adopted by the Potthast children, among them Leinket’s mother Nanette-Dorothea.
Leinket stated that he was deeply disgusted by the report and tried to find a flaw that would disprove that he had Himmler’s genes. “If it was possible to revive people, I would grab the grandfather and give him a good beating,” he said in an interview with Der Spiegel. He remembered his grandmother as a friendly old lady whom he called Mutti and who gave him chocolates on visits to the spa town of Baden-Baden.
Potthast died in 1994, Leinket’s mother in 2019; therefore, he will no longer get answers to some important questions from the past. Himmler, the organizer of the final solution to the Jewish question and the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, was arrested on May 22, 1945 and committed suicide the day after by ingesting potassium cyanide.
