Albert Suhr

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Albert Suhr (born December 9, 1920 in Hamburg ; † July 13, 1996 ) was a German doctor and member of the resistance group of the White Rose Hamburg .

Life

Albert Suhr developed a pacifist attitude as a schoolboy and was critical of National Socialism . Outwardly, he initially adapted to the regime. Suhr was a member of the Hitler Youth from 1933 to 1938 , then joined the SA and joined the National Socialist German Student Union at the beginning of his studies .

After studying medicine at the University of Hamburg , he met the bookseller Hannelore Willbrandt , who shared his rejection of the prevailing conditions. Both came into contact with a small group of oppositional students around Heinz Kucharski , Reinhold Meyer and Margaretha Rothe . Together they read and discussed works by forbidden writers, discussed artistic and philosophical questions and attended lectures by the pedagogue Wilhelm Flitner . Albert Suhr established the connection to a group of resistant young doctors who had formed under the name of candidates of humanity at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE). It was there that he met the assistant doctor Frederick Geussenhainer , with whom he became an intensive friend from now on. In the spring of 1943 the third White Rose leaflet reached Hamburg, which he copied and distributed together with his friends.

Albert Suhr was arrested by the Gestapo on September 13, 1943 , and in November 1944 he was transferred to the Stendal Regional Court Prison as a remand prisoner at the People's Court . In the partial proceedings of the entire complex of the White Rose Trials , he was indicted together with Hannelore Wilbrandt, Ursula de Boor , Wilhelm Stoldt and Felix Jud for preparing for high treason , favoring the enemy and disrupting military strength . The main hearing took place on April 19, 1945 before the People's Court in Hamburg in his absence. He had already been liberated by American troops in Stendal on April 12, 1945.

After the Second World War, Suhr practiced as a doctor and lived in Hamburg. In November 1964 he was admitted to a mental institution for insanity after two women in his practice had bled to death after unsuccessful abortions . During this time, Suhr was under the influence of the stimulant phenmetrazine (Preludin).

Albert Suhr worked in a clinic in Bad Sachsa in the early 1980s . He died in July 1996 at the age of 75.

See also

literature

  • Hendrik van den Bussche : The Hamburg University Medicine under National Socialism , here: Angela Bottin and Hendrik van den Bussche: 7.3 Opposition to the regime and persecution in medical and student circles in Eppendorf , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin Hamburg, 2014, p. 367 ff., ISBN 978- 3-496-02870-3
  • Herbert Diercks : Freedom lives. Resistance and persecution in Hamburg 1933–1945. Texts, photos and documents. Published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Hamburg City Hall from January 22 to February 14, 2010
  • Angela Bottin: Tight time. Traces of expellees and persecuted persons of the Hamburg University (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science. Vol. 11). Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Audimax of the University of Hamburg from February 22 to May 17, 1991. Reimer, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-496-00419-3 .
  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933–1945 , second edition, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7
  • Ursel Hochmuth : Candidates of Humanity. Documentation on the Hamburg White Rose on the occasion of Hans Leipelt's 50th birthday ; Editor: Association of the anti-fascists and persecuted persons of the Nazi regime Hamburg eV, Hamburg 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sönke Zankel : With leaflets against Hitler. The resistance group around Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell , Cologne 2008, p. 536 ff.
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: A glaring spotlight on secret hardship , article from November 27, 1964.
personal data
SURNAME Suhr, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1996