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Jodokus Kehrer (March 2, 1889 - May 31, 1932 in Burscheid ) was a former police assistant and SA troop leader in Burscheid. After Kehrer was killed by communists , Nazi propaganda stylized him as a “ martyr of the movement ”.

death

After a National Socialist meeting in Wermelskirchen , thirty party members of the NSDAP returned to their hometown on May 31, 1932 , among them the SA troop leader Jodokus Kehrer from Burscheid. On the country road they met a motorcycle with a sidecar, which was manned by the two communist city councilors Pulm (or Pullem) and Zeno Berger. The two communists stopped ten meters away and fired ten shots into the group. Three National Socialists were seriously injured, Kehrer, married and father of two children, was fatally shot in the head.

A little later the police arrested three suspects from Burscheid. The jury court in Düsseldorf saw it as proven that Pullem had fired the fatal shot at Kehrer. However, the perpetrator disappeared without a trace immediately after the crime. Presumably he fled to the Soviet Union . The jury sentenced Zeno Berger, who was initially also suspected of being a Communist Burscheider, to “six months in prison for possession of weapons”. After the National Socialists took power in Germany, the case against Berger was resumed. The court has now sentenced him to 15 years in prison . Due to his death, Kehrer was regarded by the National Socialists as a “martyr of the movement”.

Street renaming in Jodokus-Kehrer-Straße

  • The city of Burscheid named a street after Kehrer and erected a monument to him.
  • In Leverkusen today's "Heinrich-Brüning-Strasse" was called "Hauptstrasse" in 1905. In 1920 it was renamed “Bürriger Straße” and in 1936 “Jodokus-Kehrer-Straße”. 1945 after the war it was called “Von-Ketteler-Straße”, 1962 “Adolf-Kolping-Straße” and since 1975 it was called “Heinrich-Brüning-Straße”
  • In December 1937, a new street was named after Kehrer in the then new Neuss-Reuschenberg settlement .
  • In Hilden , in the absence of a local “martyr”, they resorted to a “martyr from the region” and from 1939–1945 named the “Südstraße” after Kehrer.
  • In Monheim am Rhein there was a “Jodokus-Kehrer-Straße”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Leon Rossmüller: Jodokus Kehrer In: Hildener Jahrbuch 2012 pp. 95–96, Verlag Stadtarchiv Hilden, ISBN 978-3-940710-37-6
  2. ↑ Martyrs of the Movement 1932 Martyrs of the Nazi Movement ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 9november.der-fuehrer.info
  3. ^ Leverkusen, renaming of the street
  4. ↑ Leverkusen, Kehrerstrasse
  5. ↑ Leverkusen, Heinrich-Brüning-Strasse
  6. ↑ Neuss-Reuschenberg street renaming
  7. ↑ Monheim street renaming ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2014 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.monheim.de
personal data
SURNAME Kehrer, Jodokus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA troop leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1889
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1932
Place of death Burscheid