Gustav Bermel

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In memory of Gustav Bermel in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, Melatengürtel 86. Stolperstein laid .

Gustav Bermel (born August 11, 1927 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld ; † November 10, 1944 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld) was a young German deserter from a Schanz deployment on the Siegfried Line and a victim of Nazi arbitrariness .

Life

Bermel grew up in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district and began an apprenticeship as a businessman after attending primary school . He was called up for the Reich Labor Service and was used for fortification work on the Siegfried Line. From there he fled home and joined the " Ehrenfeld group ". The Gestapo but was able to determine his stay, he led on 4 October 1944 the apartment of his parents and took him into custody . On November 10, 1944, he and twelve other people (five young people and seven adults) were brought from the Brauweiler remand prison to Cologne-Ehrenfeld, where they were hanged in Hüttenstrasse at the train station without a court judgment . Around 400 onlookers had gathered for this.

In the permanent exhibition opened in 2010 at the Brauweiler Memorial , Bermel was identified using a photo.

Honors

  • Since November 9, 2003 a plaque commemorates the hanged edelweiss pirates in Ehrenfeld . The plaque is attached to the arches of the railway underpass in Schönsteinstrasse , near Venloer Strasse - this is where the execution took place.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 26, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.niess.info
  2. ↑ http://www.artikel32.com/wirtschaft/1/die-ehrenfelder-gruppe.php Retrieved September 26, 2011
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 26, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfg-pulheim.de
  4. ↑ Retrieved September 26, 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gbg-koeln.de

literature

  • Winfried Seibert: The Cologne Controversy. Legend and facts about the Nazi crimes in Cologne Ehrenfeld . Klartext, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1235-9 , 186 pp.
personal data
SURNAME Bermel, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Ehrenfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1944
Place of death Cologne-Ehrenfeld