Günter von Drenkmann

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Memorial plaque on the house at Bayernallee 10, in Berlin-Westend

George Richard Ernst Günter von Drenkmann (born November 9, 1910 in Berlin ; † November 10, 1974 there ) was a German lawyer and President of the Berlin Court of Appeal . He was killed in an attempted kidnapping by terrorists from the June 2nd Movement .

family

Günter von Drenkmann's grandfather Edwin (1826–1904) was President of the Supreme Court from 1889 and later also Crown Syndicate . His father was the royal Prussian Secret Finance Councilor Dr. jur. Edwin von Drenkmann (* 1864), State Finance Councilor of the Reich Debt Administration . His mother Helen Drory (* 1874) was the granddaughter of the British entrepreneur patriarch Leonard Drory .

His son from his first marriage, Peter von Drenkmann, later (1999–2005) became President of the Berlin Regional Court.

Life

After studying law in Tübingen, Munich and Berlin, Günter von Drenkmann was unable to become a judge because he refused to join a Nazi organization. Instead, he became a consultant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry . With his friend Francis Wolff , he belonged to the Hot Club Berlin , a group of friends who privately listened to the forbidden jazz and maintained contacts with jazz musicians like Herb Fleming . Günter von Drenkmann was married to Lilo Morgenroth (* 1918) since April 1939.

After 1945 he was considered one of the few politically unaffected German lawyers. The social democrat Drenkmann took part in numerous reparation processes. In 1947 he became a judge for civil matters at the Superior Court in Berlin. Since 1967 he was also President of the Supreme Court, like his grandfather Edwin before.

Assassination attempt and memorial service

Honorary grave at the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

On November 10, 1974, several terrorists broke into his home. Drenkmann was seriously injured by a gun in the scuffle and died in hospital that same day.

The June 2nd Movement confessed to the act and described it as an “action” against a “person responsible” for the “murder of a comrade” after Holger Meins , member of the RAF , had died on a hunger strike in Wittlich prison the day before .

The perpetrators had actually planned to kidnap Drenkmann with extortionate intent . Six members of the June 2nd movement were founded in 1986 in the so-called Lorenz-Drenkmann-Trial a. a. charged with the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz and the murder of Drenkmann. The court could not prove the crime to any of the accused. To this day, the crime has not been finally resolved.

For Drenkmann, a state ceremony was held in front of the Schöneberg town hall as a memorial service , to which over 20,000 citizens appeared. Federal President Walter Scheel called on “all democrats to fight terror”.

Günter von Drenkmann was buried in the state-owned cemetery in Heerstraße in the Charlottenburg district (today's Berlin-Westend district ).

memory

A bronze commemorative plaque was attached to the former building of the Berlin Chamber Court at Witzlebenstrasse 4-5 in Charlottenburg . When the Court of Appeal moved in 1997 to the headquarters at Elßholzstrasse 30–33 in Schöneberg , a plaque was also placed there in the entrance area. Plans to rename Elßholzstrasse to Drenkmannstrasse in 2004 were not implemented.

By resolution of the Berlin Senate , Günter von Drenkmann's final resting place in the Heerstraße cemetery (grave location: field 20-C-45/46) has been dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave since 1975 . The dedication was extended in 2001 by the now usual period of twenty years.

Web links

Commons : Günter von Drenkmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. Part B 1941. Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1941, p. 134
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas Schmid : A forgotten crime . In: The world . November 13, 2010
  3. ↑ Bernd Matthies : Günter von Drenkmann: A liberal terror victim . In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 2, 2003
  4. ^ Matthias Reichelt: It must swing - Blue note . In: The future needs memories . January 16, 2010
  5. ↑ Who is “upset” about Günter von Drenkmann's death and why? ( Memento of September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), movement leaflet June 2, 1974
  6. ↑ Michael Sontheimer , Barbara Supp : They shoot us all . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1997, pp. 106–112 ( online - Spiegel interview with Bommi Baumann , Till Meyer and Anne Reiche).
  7. ↑ Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia : Movement June 2nd ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  8. ↑ Klaus Pflieger in conversation with Werner Reuss. In: BR-alpha . October 18, 2007 ( Pflieger-home.de ( memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . ). Werner Reuß: Loud thoughts. Conversations in BR-alpha. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-4123-1 , p. 120 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Pflieger-home.de
  9. ↑ Terrorists: All for One . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1978, p. 49-52 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Hans Schueler: Lorenz Drenkmann Trial: A great, a bitter hour . In: The time . No. 43/1980
  11. ↑ a b Katja Füchsel: Assassination attempt on Günter von Drenkmann: The terrorists came as messengers of flowers . In: Der Tagesspiegel . 20th November 2014
  12. ↑ Note in: The year 1975 in the picture. Carlsen, Hamburg 1975, p. 6/7 (review of the end of 1974)
  13. ↑ Fatina Keilani: After the attack in November 1974: 20,000 people mourned Günter von Drenkmann at the Schöneberg town hall . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 21, 2014
  14. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 485.
  15. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 17; accessed on November 9, 2019. Submission - for information - about the recognition and further preservation of graves of well-known and deserving personalities as honorary graves of Berlin . (PDF, 158 kB). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 14/1607 of November 1, 2001, p. 3; accessed on November 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Drenkmann, Günter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drenkmann, George Richard Ernst Günter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Berlin Court of Appeal, victim of the June 2nd movement
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1974
Place of death Berlin