Hanni Meyer

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Memorial plaque for Hanni Meyer with face relief on the house at Ritterstrasse 16 in Kreuzberg.

Hanni Meyer , née Lindenberger , (born February 14, 1921 in Berlin ; † March 4, 1943 in Plötzensee prison , Berlin) was a German cleaner and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was executed as a victim of the Nazi war justice system.

Life and activity

Meyer grew up as the daughter of a working-class family in Berlin and learned the plastering trade. Because of her Jewish descent, Meyer has been politically persecuted since the Nazis came to power. During the Second World War she had to work as a slave labor in the lampshade factory Paulus.

In early 1941 she married Gerhard Meyer .

Politically, Meyer was close to communist views, which is why she became involved in the underground group against the Nazi rule around the former communist youth functionary Herbert Baum from 1941 . The main field of activity of the group was the distribution of pamphlets directed against the Hitler regime. In 1942 Meyer took part in the most spectacular action undertaken by Baum and his followers: the arson attack against the anti-Soviet propaganda exhibition of the Nazis Das Sovietparadies in Berlin's Lustgarten on the night of May 18-19, 1942.

In the course of the breaking up of Herbert Baum's group following the arson attack, Meyer was arrested on May 27, 1942 at the latest, after she had been able to hide briefly from the authorities. She was indicted together with Heinz Birnbaum , Edith Fraenkel , Alice Hirsch , Hella Hirsch , Marianne Joachim , Hildegard Loewy , Helmut Neumann , Heinz Rotholz , Lotte Rotholz , Siegbert Rotholz and Lothar Salinger before the 2nd Senate of the People's Court. In the judgment of December 10, 1942, she was found guilty and, like Birnbaum, Hella Hisch, Joachim, Loewy, Neumann and the Heinz and Siegbert Rotholz (no brothers), she was sentenced to death (Alice Hirsch, Edith Fraenkel and Lotte Rotholz received prison sentences) . The execution took place a few weeks later in the Plötzensee prison by beheading with a guillotine .

Since 1988, a memorial plaque commissioned by the then Kreuzberg district government as part of the “anti-fascist memorial plaque program” and made by the sculptor Claus Korch has been commemorating the house at Ritterstraße 16 (unveiling on December 16, 1988), which stands at the place where the later destroyed lamp factory Paulus, in which Meyer had had to work, had found to them.

execution

“The conviction and execution of these young people, they were between 20 and 23 years old, were communicated to the population on a bright red poster. Their names were provided with the legally required additional first names Sara and Israel. "

" Notice

sentenced to death by the People's Court on December 10, 1942 for preparation for high treason and treasonous favoring the enemy

Heinz Israel Rotholz , 21 years old,
Heinz Israel Birnbaum , 22 years old,
Lothar Israel Salinger , 23 years old,
Helmuth Israel Neumann , 21 years old,
Siegbert Israel Rotholz , 23 years old,
Hella Sara Hirsch , 21 years old,
Hanni Sara Mayer, 23 years old,
Marianna Sara Joachim , 21 years old and
Hildegard Sara Loewy , 20 years old,

all from Berlin were executed today.

Berlin, March 4, 1943

The senior Reich attorney at the People's Court "

with the subtext

"Announcement of the execution of the death sentences on Heinz Rotholz and his companions"

Memorial stones

The Berlin memorial stone in the Lustgarten

Today, two memorial stones in Berlin dedicated to the Baum group also remember Hanni Meyer by name.

  1. Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Weißensee Jewish Cemetery (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz).
  2. A memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of East Berlin without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten.

literature

  • Martin Schönfeld: Memorial plaques in West Berlin (= series of publications by the Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV, Vol. 6, ZDB -ID 2215929-0 ). Active Museum Fascism and Resistance, Berlin 1993, p. 76f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page 146 at Margot Pikarski: Youth in Berlin's resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms. Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978,
  2. ↑ Page 146 at Margot Pikarski: Youth in Berlin's resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978.
  3. ^ Siegbert and Lotte Rotholz - members of the resistance group Baum Bildungsserver Berlin Brandenburg
  4. ↑ http://www.gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de/nc/gedenkenafeln/gedenkafel-beispiel/tid/hanni-meyer//
  5. ↑ The Berlin group Baum and the Jewish Resistance ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. Page 9  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gdw-berlin.de
  6. ↑ Photo at Margot Pikarski: Youth in Berlin's resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms. Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978,
  7. ^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum, "Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz)"
  8. ^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum. "This memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of Berlin (East) without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten"
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindenberger, Hanni (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cleaner and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1943
Place of death Plötzensee prison , Berlin