Johann Sedlmair

Johann Sedlmair (born December 27, 1907 in Dachau ; † May 20, 1978 there ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism and a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

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Sedlmair, from a working-class family in Dachau, learned the trade of metalworker at Krauss-Maffei in Allach-Untermenzing after attending primary school . He became a member of the KPD and was involved in the resistance against National Socialism from the beginning of the 1930s by writing slogans on house walls, sticking posters and collaborating in the production of the communist members' newspaper “Das Rote Dachau”. Sedlmair was questioned several times by the police in the early 1930s because of his resistance activities.

After the National Socialists came to power , Sedlmair was arrested at work on March 17, 1933. He was interrogated, was briefly imprisoned and was one of the first prisoners to be sent to the newly opened Dachau concentration camp on March 22, 1933, where he was imprisoned until July 27, 1933. After his release from the concentration camp, he married his girlfriend Maria Posch in 1935, who was involved with the Red Aid . Both lived in poor conditions and Sedlmair kept in touch with his party colleagues. During the Second World War he was not drafted into the armed forces because he was “unworthy of military service”, but instead was obliged to work at Krauss-Maffei at night. He was a friend of Georg Scherer and wanted to take part in the Dachau uprising with this and other resistance fighters, including Walter Neff , at the end of April 1945 , which, however, was no longer successful.

After the end of the war, he was called to work in a ruling chamber in which Nazi officials were tried. As a communist, however, he soon lost a job at BMW and did not find a new job until 1949 at the United Workshops in Munich . As a victim of Nazi persecution, he was compensated with 600 DM in 1956 and was again questioned by the police in 1963 because of the possession of CPSU publications. Sedlmair had been a pensioner since 1972 and died in Dachau in May 1978.

literature

• Christa Richardi: Johann Sedlmair. In: Hans-Günter Richardi (Ed.): Curricula vitae - fates of people who were in the Dachau concentration camp. BoD - Books on Demand 2001, Dachau Documents Vol. 2, ISBN 9783831121908 .

Web links

• Christa Richardi: Johann Sedlmair - Biography , Working Group for Research into Dachau Contemporary History e. V.