Anni Rehborn

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Anni Rehborn

Anna "Anni" Rehborn , married Anni Brandt (born August 25, 1904 in Langenberg (Rhineland) ; † after 1948) was a German swimming athlete and eight-time German champion .

Life

Anni Rehborn, daughter of the pool attendant Julius Rehborn and his wife Anna, born in Bochum since 1906 . Voss, grew up in Bochum, where the family lived in a rented apartment at Marienstraße 13 in the vicinity of the municipal bathing establishment Marienbad . Like her older brother Julius and her younger sister Hanni , Anni Rehborn was a member of the Blau-Weiß Bochum swimming club . During her career, she won six German championships in 100 m backstroke swimming ( 1923–1925 and 1927–1929) and was also twice German champion in 100 m freestyle swimming (1923 and 1924). At the European Swimming Championships in Bologna in 1927 , she won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. Anni Rehborn was nominated
for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , but did not start for unknown reasons. Her brother Julius and her sister Hanni successfully competed in the 1928 Olympic Games as water divers.

Anni Rehborn got to know Adolf Hitler in the 1920s , who liked to show his solidarity with athletes who corresponded to the racially ideologically desired image of the strong, healthy, pure "Aryan" body propagated by the NSDAP . In 1932 she joined the NSDAP at the same time as her father. The historian Heike B. Görtemaker thinks it plausible that Anni Rehborn introduced her fiancé Karl Brandt to Hitler and introduced him to the Obersalzberg in the summer of 1933 . The wedding took place on March 17, 1934 in Berlin. Hitler and Hermann Göring acted as witnesses . The wedding celebration took place in Goering's apartment in Berlin. At the end of 1934, Karl Brandt applied for membership in the SS and two months later received the offer to accompany Hitler on trips abroad as an accident doctor. Anni and Karl Brandt have been permanent guests on Obersalzberg ever since. She became a close friend of the sports enthusiast Eva Braun and of Margarete Speer, the wife of Albert Speer .

Karl Brandt was sentenced to death and executed together with six other participants in 1948 because of his joint responsibility for the killings of Aktion T4 as part of the Nazi murders and for medical experiments on concentration camp inmates .

The only child out of the marriage was the son Karl-Adolf Brandt, born on October 4, 1935, surgeon and later head of the Duisburg BG accident clinic and founder of the Eritrea project there.

After the end of her sporting career, Anni Rehborn worked as a swimming instructor. Only sparse information is available about her further life in the period after her husband's execution. The family owned a house in Marienheide near Gummersbach , where the widow lived for thirty years from 1948. The date and place of death are not known.

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Trivia

A collector's picture with a picture of Anni Rehborn from her time as an active swimmer was included in the 1932 “Sportphoto collector's album” from the Dresden cigarette factory Monopol .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Langenberger Kulturlexikon , unter-der-muren.de, accessed on August 28, 2016 (PDF file, p. 107)
  2. ↑ Ulf Schmidt: Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor . Bloomsbury Academic, 2008, ISBN 978-1-847-25206-7 . P. 50.
  3. ^ Swimming - German Championships (Ladies Part 2) , sport-komplett.de, accessed on August 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Swimming - German Championships (Ladies Part 1) , sport-komplett.de, accessed on August 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c Hanni Rehborn. Bio, Stats, and Results. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved August 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Heike B. Görtemaker: Karl and Anni Brandt. In: Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun. Life with Hitler. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-58514-2 , pp. 132f.
  7. ^ Photo of Heinrich Hoffmann's wedding .
  8. ↑ 13 levels . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1948 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Ulf Schmidt: Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor . Bloomsbury Academic, 2007, ISBN 978-1-847-25031-5 , p. 50. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ Ulf Schmidt: Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor . Bloomsbury Academic, 2007, ISBN 978-1-847-25031-5 . P. 399. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Object database of the Leipzig City History Museum. In: museum.zib.de. August 1, 2013, accessed August 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rehborn, Anni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandt, Anni (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenberg (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH after 1948