Erich Gloeden

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Stumbling stone at the house, Kastanienallee 23, in Berlin-Westend

Erich Gloeden (born Loevy , born August 23, 1888 in Berlin ; † November 30, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German architect and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Erich Gloeden was the second son of the famous Berlin bronze foundry owner Siegfried Loevy , whose company a. a. was responsible for the casting and assembly of the Dem Deutschen Volke lettering on the Berlin Reichstag building. He studied architecture and received his doctorate in 1915 at the TH Dresden on the subject of the basics of the work of Carl Friedrich Schinkel . In order to be able to discard his Jewish surname in 1918 , the baptized Erich Loevy had himself adopted by Bernhard Gloeden at the age of 30. Bernhard Gloeden was a teacher who was friends with his parents.

In 1938 Gloeden married the lawyer Elisabeth Charlotte Kuznitzky . The architect experienced World War II in the Todt Organization and learned about the Holocaust there through his activities in Poland at the end of 1942 .

Gloeden and his wife helped a large number of Jews to live underground . On the recommendation of Hans Ludwig Sierks , on July 29, 1944, he granted refuge to General of the Artillery Fritz Lindemann , one of the main participants in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , when he fled the Gestapo . At first Gloeden believed that it was a Jew because Lindemann introduced himself by the name Exner. Lindemann lived for five weeks in a building next to the Charlottenburg apartment of the Gloeden family, Kastanienallee 23. On September 3, the apartment was stormed by the Gestapo and Fritz Lindemann and Erich Gloeden, his wife and their mother-in-law Elisabeth Kuznitzky , who lived there, were arrested.

On November 27, 1944, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court under the chairmanship of Roland Freisler , as was his wife and mother-in-law. The sentences were carried out by beheading on November 30th in the Plötzensee correctional facility in Berlin-Plötzensee .

memory

  • In 1963, near the Plötzensee execution site , the Gloeden path was named after Elisabeth (and Erich) Gloeden.
  • In his speech on the Day of German Unity 2016 in Dresden , which was exposed to massive legal national challenges, Bundestag President Norbert Lammert dealt in detail with the tragic fate of Gloeden during the Nazi era. Lammert linked this fate - Gloeden's conversion, his deceptive feeling of being accepted and safe in Germany, the murder in Plötzensee by the Nazis - with the creation of the Reichstag text Dem Deutschen Volke and a reflection on what is German today . Lammert's speech was named Speech of the Year 2016 .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Erich Gloeden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bengt von zur Mühlen: The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court .
  2. ↑ Gloedenpfad. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  3. ↑ The formal dedication took place in 1963 only after Elisabeth Gloeden. The district later determined that they actually wanted to honor both family members - as with Haeftenzeile. In publications of the district office from the 1970s / 1980s, both spouses are named. A formal decision by the BVV has apparently not been made. The husband, murdered two minutes apart, as well as the mother are said to be included in the memorial.
  4. ↑ Lammert's speech on October 3, 2016
  5. ↑ Justification of the seminar for general rhetoric of the University of Tübingen for the speech of the year 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gloeden, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loevy, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee