Julius Bockemüller

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Julius Heinrich Richard Bockemüller (born October 10, 1895 in Thedinghausen , † April 21, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German doctor of Jewish descent. He was convicted of comments critical of the regime and executed in 1943.

life and work

The son of the non-Jewish court clerk Franz Bockemüller and the Jewess Johanna, b. Hahn attended grammar school in Braunschweig . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War in the Flemish theater of war, before retiring from military service as a medical sergeant in 1919. He studied medicine and then worked as a general practitioner in Sickte . He sympathized with the DNVP and in the 1920s with National Socialism , whose opponent he later became. He was recognized by large parts of the rural population.

Sentencing and execution

During a visit to the sick in June 1942, he was critical of the Nazi regime, whereupon he was arrested by the Gestapo . The indictment of the People's Court in Berlin accused him of listening to foreign enemy broadcasters , favoring the enemy, high treason and endangering the “resistance of the German people”. Bockemüller was sentenced to death and executed on April 21, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee , according to other sources in Berlin-Moabit . Three days earlier, his mother committed suicide under the impression of the verdict. Bockemüller left two daughters.

Afterlife

The verdict against him was overturned on January 14, 1952 by the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office. The Dr.-Bockemüller-Ring in Sickte was named in his honor.

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hannover 1996, pp. 70-71.
  • Herbert Obenaus (ed.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume II, Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 1473-74.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Obenaus (Ed.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume II, Göttingen 2005, p. 1473.
  2. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 71.
  3. ^ Sign against forgetting, Sickte: Memorial service for the doctor Dr Julius Bockemüller. Braunschweiger Zeitung, April 22, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Bockemüller, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bockemüller, Julius Heinrich Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Thedinghausen
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1943
Place of death Berlin