Heinrich Vieter, SAC, was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun (today Cameroon).
Heinrich Vieter arrived in Douala with seven other members of the mission on 25 October 1890.[1] Over the next 13 years, Vieter led the Pallottines as they opened missions and schools across the territory.[2]
He befriended the young Ntsama Atangana at the mission school in Kribi; Atangana would later gift the Pallottines with land in Jaunde (Yaoundé).[3]
When a Bulu leader Martin-Paul Samba was sentenced to death for treason against Germany in 1914, Vieter appealed for a stay, but his requests were ignored.[4]
Vieter taught at the Seminar für Orientalische SprachenOriental Seminary) in Berlin sometime between 1909 to 1915, along with Hermann Nekes .[5][6]
(SOS), (usually known in English as theA process of beatification of Vieter was initiated by the Archbishop of Jaunde in early 2005, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Cameroon.[citation needed]