Alfred Meyer (dentist)

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Alfred Meyer (born March 24, 1898 in Würzburg ; died May 16, 1933 in Düsseldorf ) was a German dentist and victim of the Nazi regime.

Live and act

Meyer was the son of the businessman Siegmund Meyer and his wife Jeanette in Würzburg. He had four siblings. He attended the Jewish elementary school and the secondary school in Würzburg. During the First World War , he registered as a 16-year-old after graduating as a one -year-old . He was wounded three times, promoted to sergeant and awarded the Iron Cross II. In 1919 he was involved in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . He studied in Würzburg and was a member of the Jewish student union Salia . In 1922 he established himself as a dentist in Wuppertal - Barmen . There he was a member of the Lodge B'nai B'rith .

Due to his Jewish descent, Meyer was harassed by local National Socialists in his home country soon after the National Socialists came into power in the spring of 1933: he was threatened by telephone, the window panes of his practice were smashed and his apartment was searched. On the night of April 2 to 3, 1933, his apartment was destroyed.

Stumbling block for Alfred Meyer

After his release from an initial brief imprisonment, Meyer went to Düsseldorf to prepare for his planned emigration. His opponents in Wuppertal pursued him there: On May 16, 1933, Meyer was arrested in the apartment of a family friend of SA people and mistreated in an SA accommodation in Düsseldorf. He was killed on the way from Düsseldorf to Remscheid. The body, which had multiple gunshot and stab wounds, was thrown - weighted down with a typewriter - into the Bever dam near Hückeswagen, where it was recovered shortly afterwards. The Manchester Guardian also reported on the murder .

The Düsseldorf criminal police delayed the investigation of the case through a delaying tactic. The investigations initiated by the public prosecutor's office in this matter were put down due to an order of the Prussian Ministry of Justice of August 11, 1933. In the justification for this measure it was said that Meyer had been a communist and had sexual relations with “numerous Christian girls”, so that an act committed for political reasons could be assumed that was “in connection with the National Socialist revolution”.

A post-war trial found five former SA men responsible for the murder.

On April 20, 2012, a stumbling block was laid in front of the house at Helmutstraße 32 , which reminds of Meyer's person and fate.

Fonts

  • The history and application of dental radiology , Würzburg 1922. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Hans-Peter Görgen: Düsseldorf and National Socialism: Study on the History of a Large City in the "Third Reich" , Diss. Univ. Cologne 1968; Schwann, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 88

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Meyer, Alfred , Biographical Database of Jewish Lower Franconia , University of Würzburg
  2. ↑ a b Wolf Gruner (editor): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Vol. 1 (German Reich 1933–1937), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58480 -6 , p. 229; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Edith Raim: Justice between dictatorship and democracy: Reconstruction and prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany 1945–1949. Habil.-Schr. Univ. Augsburg 2012, Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70411-2 , p. 673; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Nazis arrest and beat Jewish relief workers on 'conspiracy' charges . In: Jewish Daily Bulletin . Jewish Telegraphic Agency , New York June 21, 1933, pp. 1 u. 4 ( online [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Meyer: Helmutstraße 32 , stolpersteine-wuppertal.de
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1933
Place of death Dusseldorf