Kurt Ledien
Kurt Ledien (born June 5, 1893 in Charlottenburg , † April 23, 1945 in Hamburg-Neuengamme ), also Curt Ledien , was a German lawyer in Altona and Hamburg . He was in the era of National Socialism as both "racial reasons" as a member of the Hamburg White Rose followed and on 23 April 1945 in the Neuengamme concentration camp murdered.
Life
Kurt Ledien came from a Berlin family of Jewish origin who moved to Altona at the turn of the century. He was, like his siblings, Christian baptized, educated and confirmed , visited the Christianeum , where he made his 1912 high school . He was a soldier in the First World War , then studied law and received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1923 on the subject: The legal nature of the judgment on damages . In 1925 he married the bookseller Martha Liermann and had two daughters with her (Ilse * 1926, Ulla * 1929). The family lived in Othmarschen . From 1927 Kurt Ledien was a local judge at the district court of Altona .
After the takeover by the Nazis Kurt Ledien in 1933 first to Dortmund offset 1934 he was on the basis of the law for the Restoration of Civil forcibly retired. He returned to Hamburg and found a job in the legal department of Bavaria-St. Pauli brewery . After he was no longer allowed to do this job either, he worked for the Jewish lawyers Wilhelm Gutmann and Dr. Samson as a clerk in emigration matters.
Kurt Ledien, like his daughter Ilse, was friends with the Leipelt family. Through Hans Leipelt and his mother Katharina Leipelt , both came into contact with the circle around the later so called White Rose Hamburg , a branch of the White Rose from Munich .
In September 1943, Kurt Ledien had to go to forced labor to build the bunker in Berlin. There he was arrested at the end of November 1943 in connection with the wave of arrests surrounding the White Rose and initially placed in the police station of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. On February 29, 1944, he was transferred to the Fuhlsbüttel police prison in Hamburg . The investigations against him did not lead to charges, instead he was still in protective custody in Fuhlsbüttel . He was murdered in Neuengamme concentration camp in April 1945 in connection with a so-called crime of the final phase, along with 70 other people, mainly from the resistance .
Commemoration
Two stumbling blocks remember Kurt Ledien today , one in front of his last place of residence at Hohenzollernring 34 in Altona and one in front of the civil justice building on Sievekingplatz in Hamburg-Neustadt . The White Rose memorial in Hamburg-Volksdorf and the sculpture table with 12 chairs in Hamburg-Niendorf also include him in the memorial. A street in Hamburg-Niendorf has also been named after him since 1981.
See also
literature
- Angela Bottin: Tight time. Traces of displaced and persecuted people at the University of Hamburg. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Audimax of the University of Hamburg from February 22 to May 17, 1991. Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science Volume 11, Hamburg 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
- Association of anti-fascists and persecuted persons of the Nazi regime Hamburg e. V. (VAN) (Ed.): Candidates of humanity. Documentation on the Hamburg White Rose on the occasion of the birthday of Hans Leipelt edited. by Ursel Hochmuth. Hamburg 1971
- Birgit Gewehr: Stumbling blocks in Hamburg-Altona. Biographical search for traces ; published by the State Center for Political Education Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-929728-05-7 (with a biography of Kurt Ledien)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ledien, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ledien, Curt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1945 |
| Place of death | Neuengamme concentration camp |