Eberhard Nachmann

Eberhard Nachmann (born November 7, 1919 in Bochum ; † June 17, 2006 in Wietze ) was a German local politician and lawyer. He participated in the resistance against the Nazi tyranny. In the course of the June 17th uprising in the German Democratic Republic , he was sentenced to a long prison term.

Life

Nachmann attended the state high school in Bochum in the 1930s. On November 12, 1938, he was arrested by the Gestapo . The entire family was arrested again this time on June 30, 1942. Together with his parents, he and his parents were sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in August 1942 on the basis of the law for the protection of the people and the state . His father Leo Nachmann was also sentenced to ten months and his mother to eight months. Prison and camp stays in Bochum, Dortmund and Magdeburg followed . He belonged to the resistance group around Otto Wachhorst and Karl Nieswandt against the National Socialist tyranny. In 1944 he moved to live with his mother in Gommern . He had to work in the forced labor camp in Burg and survived a bomb attack in the camp in April 1945. After the Red Army took Gommern on May 4, 1945, Nachmann was appointed mayor of Gommern on May 17, 1945, but was replaced on July 27, 1945 by the communist Walter Krenzke .

Nachmann belonged to the SPD , but resigned from the party and became a member of the CDU in June 1946 . In autumn 1946 he began studying law at the University of Halle . Here he got married too. In 1950 he passed the first state examination in law and moved back to Gommern, where he lived at today's Walther-Rathenau-Straße 6 . He completed his legal clerkship in Magdeburg. In March 1953 he passed the second state examination in law. However, he was not admitted to the bar . He worked as a processing officer for lawyers who had illegally traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany.

On June 17, 1953, he took part in the popular uprising in the GDR. On his return from Magdeburg, he saw how citizens freed prisoners from the prison in the nearby Wasserburg Gommern . He participated in this, whereby he only came into possession of cell keys in which no one was detained any more. However, he signed several discharge papers. For this he was on 9 July 1953 six years prison sentenced. While in custody, he contracted tuberculosis and his first marriage failed. He was released from prison on September 14, 1957 and then fled to West Germany, where he remarried. From 1957 to 1983 he worked first at the higher court in West Berlin and then, dealing with resettlement issues, at the West Berlin Senate. He lived in Berlin-Lichterfelde .

Memorial plaque in Gommern

Honors

The city of Gommern placed a plaque in his honor in January 2014 on the city's market square.

Web links

• Sebastian Siebert, plaque commemorates Eberhard Nachmann in the Volksstimme, published online on January 20, 2014
• Information about Eberhard Nachmann at mitbesthung-ddr.jimdo.com