Fritz Lohmeyer
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
- ↑ see photo of the inscription on the memorial
personal data | |
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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 |