Hermann Frieb

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Memorial plaque for Hermann Frieb and his mother on Schellingstrasse in Munich

Hermann Frieb (* 11. December 1909 in Mauerkirchen in Upper Bavaria; † 12. August 1943 in Munich ) was an Austrian social democratic resistance fighters in the era of National Socialism .

Life

Born in Bavaria as the son of the Austrian auditor Eduard Frieb and his wife Paula, he joined the SPD in Sendling after the family moved to Munich in 1932 and headed the socialist student group at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until it was banned in June 1933 . He was arrested in February 1934, and on March 27, 1934, he was expelled from Bavaria as an Austrian citizen on suspicion of illegal political activity. In Vienna and later in Prague, where he continued his studies, he came into contact with Waldemar von Knoeringen and the resistance group “ Neu Beginnen ”. After the death of his father and the lifting of his expulsion, he returned to Munich in 1935, where he continued his father's office as an independent tax advisor. Together with his mother Paula in Munich and Upper Bavaria, he built the resistance group “New Beginning”. It was a matter of conspiratorially acting, together with the SPD resistance organization abroad Sopade , including the Revolutionary Socialists of Germany , to establish contacts among the cadre units, to provide them with information, later to arm them and thus to prepare for the fight against the National Socialists. Frieb intended to set up a fighting force, but also to carry out sabotage measures in the armaments industry. In August 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . It is not certain whether he was arrested at the front or released for health reasons after a few months of military service.

From February 1942 onwards, almost all group members of “Neu Beginnen”, a total of around 200 people, were arrested on account of the denunciation by Nazi informants, including Frieb and his mother. The Gestapo found more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition, six rifles and 25 pistols in his holiday home . On May 27, 1943, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court for “preparing for high treason and treason”. Hermann Frieb was executed on August 12, 1943 in the Munich-Stadelheim prison.

His grave is in the north cemetery in Munich (No. 104-11-2).

Honors

At the suggestion of the school department of the state capital of Munich (especially the city school councilor Anton Fingerle ), the municipal secondary school for boys in Munich- Schwabing was renamed the Städtische Hermann-Frieb-Realschule on January 22, 1964 . In the same year Hermann-Frieb-Straße in the Munich district of Hasenbergl was named after him. In 1987, a memorial plaque created by the sculptor Dietmar Scharfe was installed at Schellingstrasse 78 at Frieb's place of residence . On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his death, a small memorial service was held in Schellingstrasse in 2003. At the urging of the Maxvorstadt district committee, the plaque from 1987 was replaced in 2009 by a plaque created by Toni Preis, which now commemorates Herrmann Frieb and his mother Paula Frieb.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Frieb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
  2. ^ Klaus Bäumler: Culture of Remembrance in Munich. Hermann Frieb. Der Maxvorstädter online, November 2009, (PDF file), p. 5f
  3. ↑ Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Vol. 1, Literareron, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89675-859-4 , p. 131f ( PDF; 1.1 MB ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  4. ^ Resistance in the Third Reich. Hermann Frieb. VVN – BdA
  5. ↑ Patron saint. Hermann Frieb (1909-1943). Homepage of the Hermann-Frieb-Realschule in Munich, accessed on June 26, 2016
  6. ↑ Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Vol. 1, Literareron, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89675-859-4 , pp. 129–132 ( PDF; 1.1 MB ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  7. ↑ 60th anniversary of Hermann Frieb's death. Honor for resistance fighters . Münchner Wochenanzeiger, August 21, 2003
  8. ↑ Unveiling of the memorial plaque for Herrmann and Paula Frieb ( PDF )
  9. ↑ In the source Mauerkirchen in Upper Austria is incorrectly stated as the place of birth. See e.g. B. Information from the secondary school in Munich named after him.
personal data
SURNAME Frieb, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social democrat
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Wall churches
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1943
Place of death Munich