Homosexual Assault: German Prelate Left Compromising Material Behind

Monsignor Edmund Dillinger (+2022) was a somewhat well-known figure in certain neo-conservative circles in Germany.

Along with Cardinals Müller and Cordes, Princess Thurn and Taxis and others, he was a member of the Forum of German Catholics, which organised the annual congress Freude am Glauben (Joy of Faith). He was a member of the Initiativkreis, which supported the Latin Mass, and of other initiatives.

In 1971, however, he was already accused of homosexual assault during a pilgrimage to Rome. Only in 2013, after a second case was reported to Trier Diocese, was he banned from presiding at the Eucharist in public. He retired to his home and became increasingly senile.

After his death, his nephew discovered several boxes in his house containing hundreds of photographs and films of a pornographic nature, proving decades of homosexual abuse of teenagers.

According to the findings, Dillinger photographed them naked and in explicit poses over decades, and documented everything in diaries.

The first photographs recordings date back to the 1960s, and continue into the 2000s. Over time, they became increasingly explicit and pornographic.

Dillinger was also the founder of a charity for Africa CV-Afrika-Hilfe e. V., for which he was awareded a German order of merit. Many of his victims were young black men, but not only.