Friedrich Bergmann (lawyer)

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Friedrich Bergmann (born April 18, 1891 in Braunschweig ; † April 11, 1945 in Riddagshausen ) was a German lawyer and worked as a district director in Holzminden , Blankenburg (Harz) and Braunschweig .

Life

He was the son of the senior director and professor Ernst Bergmann. After attending the community school in Braunschweig, he went to a grammar school there . Bergmann then studied at the University of Göttingen , then moved to Munich, Berlin and Erlangen, where he became a Dr. jur. received his doctorate . He took an active part in the First World War and was wounded.

In 1922 he was Councilor and board member of the National Insurance Institute Braunschweig . In 1924 he became an unskilled worker in the Braunschweig State Ministry and a year later head of the Braunschweig State Welfare and Youth Office. In 1931 he was promoted to the district director of Holzminden . In 1934 he was transferred as district director to Blankenburg in the Harz region of Braunschweig . After working there for four years, Bergmann moved back to Braunschweig, where he worked as district director until the end of the Second World War in 1945. Bergmann was also a member of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association (BNSDJ).

Bergmann's murder and legal aftermath

Shortly before the handover of the city of Braunschweig , Berthold Heilig , NSDAP district leader of Braunschweig, gave Bergmann the order to have all bridges over the Oker and Mittelland Canal as well as the motorway bridges in the Braunschweig district blown up. Bergmann refused to carry out the order , but tried to commit suicide by cutting open the artery, but this failed.

Bergmann was found seriously injured. His driver wanted to take him to the Celler Strasse hospital , but Heilig forbade that with the words "I'll do that." He then ordered Paul Wollmann with the words “I am sentencing him to death. Take him somewhere outside the city and shoot him. ”To kill Bergmann. Wollmann took the two SA men Karl Scheil and Alwin Glindemann with him. The three immediately drove the living but unconscious miner to the Kreuzteich in Riddagshausen , where Wollmann shot Bergmann from behind in the head with a carbine . Then, as discussed with Heilig, Scheil stuck a piece of paper with the inscription “The Wehrwolf ” in one of his shoes. On the same day, Bergmann's body and that of his 19-year-old son Andreas were found murdered in the theater park.

Because of the "death sentence" to Friedrich Bergmann, Berthold Heilig was sentenced to death by the Braunschweig Regional Court on June 12, 1947 after the war . The Supreme Court for the British Zone of Occupation in Cologne upheld this judgment on September 28, 1948. However, Heilig was able to evade execution by means of a rat line for Nazi criminals and fled to Argentina , where he committed suicide on November 7, 1978 by he jumped out of the window on the 10th floor of a hotel.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Administrative history of the Blankenburg district
  2. ↑ Trial files against Bertholf Heilig, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel , 61 NDS Fb1 ff., Quoted from: Eckhard Schimpf: Heilig: The flight of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2005, ISBN 3-937664-31-9 , p. 35, FN 31.
  3. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf : Grenade fire, fear and senseless orders. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung (ed.): End of the war. Special issue No. 2, Braunschweig 2005, p. 67.
  4. ^ Dietrich Kuessner : Views of a sunken city. The Brunswick city churches 1933–1950. Krebs, Wendeburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-932030-59-8 , p. 587.
  5. ^ Günter KP Starke: The Inferno of Braunschweig and the time after. Year ?, p. 63.
  6. ^ LG Braunschweig, June 12, 1947. In: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. I, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1968, No. 21, pp. 431-468 Shooting of the district administrator and district leader Bergmann, who attempted suicide towards the end of the war and started fire in the Braunschweig district management building in order to destroy documents and buildings ( memento from 14 March 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf: Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005, p. 60.
  8. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf: Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005, p. 124.
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1945
Place of death Riddagshausen