Richard Henle
Richard Henle was a German Catholic missionary of the Society of the Divine Word in Shandong during the last decade of the 19th century. Together with Franz Xaver Nies, he was one of two missionaries killed in the Juye Incident that led to the German occupation of the Kiautschou Bay concession and was followed by the acquisition of concessions in China by other foreign powers.
Richard Henle arrived in the mission house of the Society of the Divine Word in Styl on October 8, 1880 and was ordained on June 15, 1888 by Cardinal Fischer of Cologne. He embarked on his mission to China from Style on September 15, 1890 traveling through Switzerland to Genoa where he boarded the ship "Sachsen" to Shanghai on September 30. The ocean journey went through the Suez canal, made stops in Aden and Colombo, Sri Lanka, before arriving in Shanghai on November 5, 1890.
