Fritz Lohmeyer

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Fritz Lohmeyer in the inscription on the court prison memorial in Hanover next to the pavilion

Friedrich Lohmeyer (* 11. August 1890 in Hannover , declared dead as of † 8. May 1945 in Ebensee ), first name also briefly "Fritz" called, was one SPD - functionary and resistance fighters .

Life

Fritz Lohmeyer learned the profession of confectioner, but never practiced it. At the age of 18 he became a union member in 1908. In 1913 he joined the SPD. In the First World War he was a soldier from 1915 to 1918. After the war, Lohmeyer was hired as an unskilled worker at the Körting brothers machine factory . From 1930 he was an invalid. In the same year he became one of a total of 45 SPD department heads in Hanover, responsible for the 11th district of Hanover-Oststadt until 1933 .

After 1933 Friedrich Lohmeyer joined the resistance group Socialist Front and there, as head of Department VII, became one of the main distributors of the illegal socialist newspapers . He was arrested on February 19, 1936, was in the Hanover judicial prison : The Hamm Higher Regional Court sentenced Lohmeyer to five and a half years in prison for preparation for high treason , which he had to serve in Hameln prison until August 19, 1941 .

After his release from prison, Fritz Lohmeyer was first admitted to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , then to the Mauthausen concentration camp on February 15, 1945 and finally to the Ebensee subcamp on March 25, 1945 . After its liberation by American troops, Lohmeyer probably died of weakness: by order of the Hanover District Court , he was declared dead on January 12, 1949 with effect from May 8, 1945.

Honors

  • In 1952 a street in Hanover-Ricklingen was named Lohmeyerhof
  • In 1979 the Roderbruch youth center was given the name Fritz-Lohmeyer-Haus and a memorial plaque
  • The court prison memorial in front of the pavilion on Raschplatz , which was unveiled on May 8, 1989, lists Fritz Lohmeyer as one of the prisoners in the inscription .

literature

  • Herbert Obenaus , W. Sommer: Political prisoners in the Hanover judicial prison during the National Socialist rule. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 44, 1990, pp. 162-166.
  • B. Rabe: The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936 . 1984.
  • K. Theilen (arr.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933–1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover . 2000.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Lohmeyer, Friedrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 415f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see photo of the inscription on the memorial
personal data
SURNAME Lohmeyer, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohmeyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Social democratic resistance fighter in the "Socialist Front" in Hanover, main distributor of the illegal "Socialist papers"
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1945
Place of death Ebensee