Henriette Meyer

Henriette Meyer , née Fleck (* July 14, 1896 , † December 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a victim of the Nazi war justice system .

In the 1930s Meyer became a member of the religious community of the Association of International Bible Students ( Jehovah's Witnesses ), which was fiercely opposed by the Nazi system due to its pacifist attitude.

In December 1943 Meyer became together with eight other Jehovah's Witnesses from Neuss , Herne , Rheydt and Düsseldorf - including her husbandErnst Meyer (1893–1944) - arrested on charges of subversive activities due to her continued activity in the sense of the anti-militarist ideology of Jehovah's Witnesses (reproduction and distribution of anti-war writings). She was transferred to Berlin with people arrested together with her , and there on August 2, 1944, she was charged before the People's Court of undermining military strength and favoring the enemy . Meyer and six other defendants ( Helene Gotthold ,Luise Pakull , Else Woiecziech , Wilhelm Hengeveld , Ernst Meyer and Mathilde Hengeveld) were sentenced to death ; two more received prison terms.

Meyer was executed together with Gotthold, Pakull and Woiecziech on December 8, 1944 in the Plötzensee prison .

Today a stumbling stone in front of the house at Hermann-Löns-Straße 4 in Mönchengladbach reminds of Meyer. Further stumbling blocks in front of the same house remind of her husband Ernst and their son Erich .

literature

Detlef Garbe : Between resistance and martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the “Third Reich”. 1999.
Kirsten John-Stucke, Michael Krenzer, Johannes Wrobel: 12 years - 12 fates. Case studies on the NS victim group Jehovah's Witnesses in North Rhine-Westphalia 1933 - 1945. Münster 2006.

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fleck, Henriette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Victims of the Nazi war justice
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1896
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1944
Place of death	Berlin-Plötzensee