Fritz Bringmann

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Fritz Bringmann (born February 9, 1918 in Lübeck ; † March 31, 2011 in Aukrug ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism . The former concentration camp prisoner was Secretary General of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme (International Camp Community of Neuengamme Concentration Camp) from 1970 to 1995 and its honorary president until his death.

Life

Fritz Bringmann was born in Lübeck in 1918 as the sixth of eight children of a socialist working-class family. His grandfather was one of the founding members of the SPD in Stockelsdorf in 1892 . His father was also a Social Democrat and his older brothers were members of the Socialist Workers' Youth and later active in the Communist Youth Association of Germany .

In 1933 Fritz Bringmann began an apprenticeship as a plumber and plumber. In 1935 he was arrested and tortured for the first time by the Gestapo because he and his brother had painted the slogan Down with Hitler on a roof . In September 1936 Fritz Bringmann was sentenced to two years in prison. Afterwards he was imprisoned from the beginning of September 1936, initially in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and from the end of September 1940 in the Neuengamme concentration camp . In 1942 he became a room elder and thus a prisoner function . Bringmann, who managed to escape from the concentration camp in the spring of 1944, was picked up after seven weeks and taken back to Neuengamme. Most recently he was imprisoned in the prison in Bremen-Oslebshausen . After the liberation from National Socialism , he returned to Lübeck in June 1945.

After the end of the war, Fritz Bringmann took part in the development of the FDJ in Lübeck. He was briefly arrested again in 1950 because of the preparations for the Germany meeting of the Free German Youth. Later he got involved with the KPD . At VVN he was state secretary and state chairman in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1970 to 1995 he was Secretary General of the Amicale Internationale Neuengamme .

Fritz Bringmann, married since 1947, lived with his wife Alice in Aukrug near Neumünster since 1966 . On April 7, 2011, he was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

His older brother Werner geb. In 1913 was a resistance fighter, member of the International Brigades in Spain and then joined the Resistance .

The early encounter with Fritz Bringmann had a strong influence on the historian Herbert Diercks , longstanding employee of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and author of publications on persecution and remembrance work.

Honors

Memorial stone of the Bringmann family
  • In 2000 Bringmann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class .
  • Outside the memorial for the victims of war and tyranny , a memorial stone for the Bringmann family was set up in Block 20 at the Vorwerker Friedhof in Lübeck. Its inscription says that the socialist Lübeck working-class family Heinrich Bringmann and their eight sons fought intrepidly against the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, when they fought illegality in Germany and the resistance movements in Spain, Denmark, Norway and France for our and for the liberation of Europe , five of the sons spent 36.5 years in penitentiaries and concentration camps and did not return to Lübeck until 1945/46.
  • In 2018, on Bringmann's 100th birthday, the Fritz-Bringmann-Ring street in Fünfhausen , Hamburg was inaugurated.

Fonts

  • Neuengamme concentration camp. Reports, reminders, documents . Röderberg Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1981
  • With Herbert Diercks: Freedom lives! Anti-fascist resistance and Nazi terror in Elmshorn and the surrounding area. 702 years in prison for anti-fascists . Röderberg Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1983
  • With Hartmut Roder : Neuengamme ousted, forgotten, mastered? The "second" story of the Neuengamme concentration camp from 1945 to 1985 . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-87975-416-0 .
  • Memories of an anti-fascist 1924–2004. Konkret, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89458-231-6 .
  • Child murder at Bullenhuserdamm: SS crimes in Hamburg in 1945. Human experiments on children. 3. Edition. Published by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuengamme for the FRG e. V., Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-87682-591-1 .

literature

Obituaries

Web links

Commons : Fritz Bringmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lifelong struggle against fascism. In memory of the communist resistance fighter Fritz Bringmann
  2. ↑ Fritz Bringmann: Memories of an Antifascist 1924-2004. In: Art and Culture in Wendland. Black Rooster Cultural Association.
  3. ^ Jörg Wollenberg : War of Memories - from Ahrensbök via New York to Auschwitz and back. A search for clues. Volume 1, Sujet-Verlag, Bremen 2016, p. 152.
  4. ^ Annette Stiekele: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial - No retirement for Herbert Dierks, Hamburger Abendblatt, supplement Museumworld Spring 2019, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Bringmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2011
Place of death Aukrug