Fritz Eikemeier

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Fritz Eikemeier (born March 28, 1908 in Groß-Oldendorf ; † August 4, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German communist , resistance fighter , concentration camp prisoner and former police chief of Berlin (East) .

Life

The son of a glassmaker he worked after visiting the elementary school as a laborer in a glass factory, was unemployed in 1926, then in a quarry and later in track construction of the Reichsbahn operates. In 1930 he became a member of the KPD . In 1933 he emigrated to Belgium and fought in the International Brigades in Spain from 1936 to 1938 . In November 1938, he was arrested and interned by the French police in the Pyrenees . In July 1939 he was allowed to enter Belgium again. After the Wehrmacht invaded Belgium in May 1940, he was interned again and taken to France. He was arrested by the Gestapo in Bordeaux and transferred to Hanover . After twelve weeks in Gestapo detention, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp on October 23, 1940 . On April 20, 1945, the death march of 500 concentration camp prisoners to the Baltic coast began. On the night of May 3, 1945, they were able to celebrate their liberation in a forest near Crivitz after the guards had fled.

In Crivitz he met his wife Martha, who worked there as a nurse. It took four weeks for him to get to Berlin, where he arrived on May 28th. The Soviet commander appointed him on June 6, 1945 as police station chief in Berlin-Friedenau . Soon afterwards - on August 14, 1945 - he was given an inspection by the Soviet headquarters. Until 1947 he was then head of the VP Inspection Berlin-Friedrichshain. In 1946 he joined the SED . In the summer of 1947 he was entrusted with the personnel department in the Berlin Police Command and later became its vice-commander. On May 1, 1949, Police President Paul Markgraf and Alfred Schönherr appointed him Vice President of the Berlin People's Police. In October 1949 he became chief inspector of the DVP in the state of Brandenburg (successor to Richard Staimer ) and in 1952, with the formation of the districts, he became chief of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Potsdam . From September 9, 1953 to November 20, 1964, he was the successor of Waldemar Schmidt as the police chief of East Berlin . In 1956 he was major general . The Berlin Wall was erected during his tenure, and in August 1961 he was a member of the staff of the GDR's National Defense Council . Retired since 1964, he lived as a major general a. D. in Berlin. Eikemeier was also a member of the East Berlin city council from 1954 to 1964 and a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin.

His grave is in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the burial complex for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime .

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SURNAME Eikemeier, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, concentration camp prisoner and police president of East Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Oldendorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1985
Place of death Berlin