He had the misfortune to have loved Germany well?

Does "he had the misfortune to have loved Germany well" mean "he was unlucky, because he had deeply loved Germany"?

Context:

Over a hundred years ago this sequestered spot was the scene of a tragic calamity which afected the whole German nation and will be remembered for ever, at least in the annals of German history. At the time of our Fatherland's deepest humiliation a bookseller, Johannes Palm, uncompromising nationalist and enemy of the French, was put to death here because he had the misfortune to have loved Germany well.