Herbert Richter (architect)

Herbert Richter alias Richter-Luckian , (born August 5, 1901 in Halle (Saale) ; † May 8, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German architect and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Grave of the Richter family in the Kreuz cemetery in Lankwitz (Department M-W1-024). Coordinates of the grave: 52 ° 25 ′ 9.8 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 26.4 ″  E

For Harro Schulze-Boysen's resistance network , he obtained information from the General Staff of the Air Force High Command (OKL).

Richter was one of the founders of the European Union resistance group in 1939, along with the doctor Georg Groscurth , the chemist Robert Havemann and the dentist Paul Rentsch .

Richter had made his apartment available when a "central committee" of the group was founded on July 15, 1943. He was arrested on September 5, 1943 by the Gestapo in his house in Diensdorf am Scharmützelsee . The hearing and sentencing to death by the People's Court , represented by President Roland Freisler , took place on 15./16. December 1943. The non- final judgment against Richter, Rentsch and Groscurth was carried out on May 8, 1944 in the Brandenburg penitentiary . He is buried in the Kreuzkirchhof on Malteserstraße in Berlin-Lankwitz .

Honors

• Richter's grave on the Evangelical Kreuzkirchhof Lankwitz is an honorary grave of the city of Berlin (grave location: Dept. M, row W1, place 024).

• In 2006 Herbert Richter was registered in Yad Vashem on the Wall of Memorial - the wall with the names of the Righteous Among the Nations .

literature

• Simone Hannemann: Robert Havemann and the "European Union" resistance group. A presentation of the events and their interpretation after 1945. In: Series of publications by the Robert Havemann Society. Berlin 2001, ISBN 3980492052 Rez .: [1] and (critical) The "European Union", founded among others by the later GDR civil rights activist Havemann in 1942 against the Nazi regime, is being seriously researched historically for the first time - with problematic results. ( Memento of March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
• Bernd Florath : The European Union. In: Johannes Tuchel (Ed.): "The forgotten resistance" - On real history and perception of opposition and resistance to National Socialism. (Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History, Vol. 5) Göttingen 2005, pp. 114–139.
• Manfred Wilke / Werner Theuer: Robert Havemann and the European Union resistance group. (Working papers of the SED State Research Association, 29) Berlin 1999.
• Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. results-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
• Karl-Robert Schütze: The ball. A forgotten association of creative artists. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins 78 (1982), pp. 494–499.

Web links

Commons : Herbert Richter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. results-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 , page 56.
2. ↑ Query of the honorary graves ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 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. Berlin.de, accessed on March 11, 2012.