Friedrich Rehmer
Friedrich Rehmer (born June 2, 1921 in Berlin ; † May 13, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Friedrich Rehmer grew up in a working-class family in Berlin-Neukölln . After school he trained as a locksmith and worked as an adjuster. At the end of the 1930s he took part in excursions and activities of the now banned Bündische Jugend . Surviving friends said he pursued anarchist lines of thought.
From 1938 to 1940 he successfully attended Heilsche Abendgymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg to prepare for his Abitur. He was then employed as a substitute teacher because of his outstanding knowledge of geography and history. From joint schoolwork with his classmate Eva Rittmeister , under the guidance of her husband, the psychoanalyst Dr. John Rittmeister , an oppositional discussion group that also included Rehmer's fiancée Liane Berkowitz .
In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and seriously wounded with a leg injury on the Eastern Front. He was therefore unable to take part in his friends' sticky notes campaign against the propaganda exhibition “ Soviet Paradise ”. In connection with the wave of arrests that followed after Harro Schulze-Boysen's arrest, he was arrested in the Britz military hospital in November 1942 and sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial on January 18, 1943 as a member of the Rote Kapelle organization . Rehmer was heavily burdened by testimony accusing him of degrading military strength in the hospital with statements such as "The war is lost" and "Germans will have to be ashamed of the crimes in the Soviet Union for centuries".
His fiancée Liane Berkowitz gave birth to their daughter Irina, who died in October 1943 in a children's home in Eberswalde under unknown circumstances.
literature
- Regina Griebel, Marlies Coburger, Heinrich Scheel : Recorded? The Gestapo album for the Red Orchestra. A photo documentation . Audioscop, Halle 1992, ISBN 3-883-84044-0 .
- Kurt Schilde (Ed.): Eva-Maria Buch and the "Red Orchestra". Remembering the resistance to National Socialism . A font from the Bruno and Else Voigt Foundation. Overall, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-925961-06-2 .
Web links
- German Resistance Memorial Center : Networks of Resistance
- Sticky notes against Nazi propaganda in: Die Zeit from November 24, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rehmer, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |