Justus Delbrück
Justus Delbrück (born November 25, 1902 in Berlin ; died October 23, 1945 in the special camp Jamlitz ) was a German administrative lawyer who was involved in the resistance against National Socialism .
Life
Justus Delbrück comes from the extensive family of civil servants and scholars Delbrück . His father was the history professor Hans Delbrück , his siblings included Max Delbrück and Emmi Bonhoeffer , née Delbrück. He was married to Ellen Delbrück, born von Wahl-Pajus (1907–1978) and had three children. Justus Delbrück was the great-grandson of Justus Liebig and thus belonged to the branched Liebig family .
After attending the Grunewald High School , he studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin from 1921 to 1928 . After his legal clerkship at the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie , he was a government assessor and then in 1930 government councilor in Schleswig , then in Stade and Lüneburg . He became a member of the German Democratic Party .
In 1933 he refused to join the NSDAP and joined the Confessing Church . In 1935 he left the civil service and from then on worked in business. In 1938 he took over a cloth factory in Sommerfeld on a fiduciary basis in order to protect the business of the brother of his Jewish friend Gerhard Leibholz from Aryanization .
In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and on October 10, 1941, at the instigation of Hans von Dohnanyi, he came to the Foreign Office / Defense of the OKW . There he worked in the resistance group around General Hans Oster , Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg and Klaus Bonhoeffer and also had contact with other resistance groups, such as the Kreisau Circle from 1941 . After Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was dismissed , Delbrück was transferred to Landesschützenbataillon 3 in early 1944.
After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Delbrück was arrested by the Gestapo on August 17, 1944 . While his brother-in-law Klaus Bonhoeffer was sentenced to death and shot in another group of fellow inmates on April 23, 1945, he was released from the Gestapo prison in Lehrter Strasse on April 25, 1945 when Berlin was conquered .
After the war, Delbrück was "the defense institutions employees" on 20 May 1945 by the NKVD arrested and came on June 19, 1945, first in the Soviet Special Camp no. 6 in Frankfurt (Oder) , which in September 1945 after Jamlitz was moved . There he died on October 23, 1945 of diphtheria / dystrophy .
literature
- Andreas Weigelt: Retraining camps do not exist: On the history of the Soviet special camp Jamlitz 1945–1947 . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education - Foundation for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship, Potsdam 2001, ISBN 3-932502-29-9 . There: Short biography of Justus Delbrück (PDF file; 837 kB)
Web links
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- Justus Delbrück House in Jamlitz / Brandenburg , video on Vimeo (6:27 minutes)
Individual evidence
- ^ Book of the dead of the special camp Jamlitz, serial no. No. 423
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delbrück, Justus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1945 |
| Place of death | Special camp Jamlitz |