Friedrich Justus Perels

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Friedrich Justus Leopold Perels (born November 13, 1910 in Berlin ; † April 23, 1945 there ) was a German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at
Perelsplatz 6–9 in Berlin-Friedenau
Stumbling stone in front of the house at Viktoriastraße 4a, in Berlin-Lichterfelde
Grave of Friedrich Justus Perels and others in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities

Friedrich Justus Perels was the second of four sons of Ernst Perels and his wife Antonie (née Hermes). His grandfather Ferdinand Perels had converted to the Protestant faith as the son of Jewish parents . From 1922 to 1929 Perels attended the 1st Friedenau grammar school (today: Friedrich Bergius School ) in the Berlin district of Friedenau and then studied law at the University of Heidelberg , with Gustav Radbruch among others .

On April 1, 1933, Perels became a trainee lawyer , he completed the assessor exam in 1936. During his traineeship, Perels was legal advisor to the Pastors' Emergency Association and the Confessing Church to which he belonged. From 1936 he was legal advisor and legal advisor to the Confessing Church of the Old Prussian Union . As a lawyer, he also represented the interests of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in many ways . He was a member of the Freiburg Council .

In 1940 Perels married Helga Kellermann; Their son Joachim Perels was born in 1942.

Through his friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer , he came into contact with the resistance group around Hans von Dohnanyi in 1940 and worked there. In 1941, for example, he and Bonhoeffer put together documents on the deportation of the Jews, which Dohnanyi passed on to General Ludwig Beck in order to get opposition armed forces to act. In 1942 Perels was involved in the Sieben company, which enabled 14 Jewish people to flee abroad in 1942.

After the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Perels was arrested on October 5, 1944 for "failing to report plans to overthrow known to him and for illegal activity for the Confessing Church".

On February 2, 1945 he was sentenced to death by the People's Court , chaired by Roland Freisler . Freisler was killed the following day in an Allied air raid on Berlin . Justus Perels, together with Klaus Bonhoeffer and Rudiger Schleicher and other detainees at the march from the cells Lehrter Strasse prison for Prinz-Albrecht-Palais during the night of 22 on April 23, 1945 by a special detachment of the Reich Security Main Office shot .

His father, Ernst Perels, died as a result of his kin in the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Honors

Honor grave

Friedrich Justus Perels has a grave of honor in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin .

Remembrance day

His ecclesiastical day of remembrance is April 22nd (the day before his death) in the Evangelical Calendar of Names of the Evangelical Church in Germany .

Memorial plaques

There are memorial plaques in Berlin-Mitte at Chausseestrasse 126 and in Berlin-Westend at Fürstenbrunner Weg 69-77; also at the Friedrich-Bergius-Oberschule at the Perelsplatz in Berlin-Friedenau named after him .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Justus Perels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Joachim Fest : Coup. The long way to July 20th. Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88680-539-5 , p. 320.
personal data
SURNAME Perels, Friedrich Justus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perels, Friedrich Justus Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945
Place of death Berlin