Kurt Lisso
Ernst Kurt Lisso (* March 7, 1892 in Großbadegast ; † April 18, 1945 in Leipzig ) was a Leipzig lawyer and from 1933 a National Socialist local politician , who gained fame primarily through photographs , which ended after his suicide on April 18, 1945 of the Second World War .
Life
Lisso studied law at the University of Leipzig until 1914 , and from 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a company commander . He received his doctorate in 1922 on the subject of "The Development of Juvenile Criminal Law in Germany" and then worked as a freelance lawyer in Leipzig. In December 1933 Kurt Lisso was appointed full-time city councilor and head of the city's personnel office. Within the city administration he was one of the leading key players in matters of anti-Semitic politics and the implementation of the same. In 1940, Lisso took over the office of city treasurer and deputy head of the city as a close confidante of the then Mayor of Leipzig, Alfred Freyberg .
death
On April 18, 1945 Kurt Lisso, together with his wife Renate (* April 12, 1895 , née Lübbert) and daughter Regina (* May 24, 1924) committed suicide by taking cyanide capsules in the rooms of the New Town Hall in Leipzig, after the 69th Infantry Division of the US Army arrived in Leipzig. Lee Miller , Margaret Bourke-White , Robert Capa and J. Malan Heslop as photo reporters and members of the US Army captured the scene photographically from the following day, at times the pictures were assigned to the then Lord Mayor Alfred Freyberg . The recordings made on April 20 by Margaret Bourke-White were published in the well-known US American Life magazine and became world famous. The photographs with the Lisso family are often used as a pictorial example in connection with the suicides of Germans at the end of the war in 1945.
Kurt Lisso was found slumped on the desk in the mayor's office, surrounded by official documents such as his NSDAP membership card. Wife Renate and daughter Regina (wearing a DRK armband ) committed suicide on chairs in front of the desk.
literature
- Erich Schmahl: Review of the second year of the war 1940/41 , in: Georg Merseburger (Hrsg.): Leipziger Jahrbuch 1942 . Otto Beyer, Leipzig 1942, p. 171.
- Margaret Bourke-White : Germany, April 1945 (Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly) . Mosel / Schirmer, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-34-7 , pp. 68–69, Fig. 44.
- Steffen Held: The Leipzig city administration and the deportation of Jews in the Nazi state , Leipzig City History Museum . Leipzig 2011.
- Robert Giesel: Leipzig's National Socialist Mayor (1937–1945) , in: Leipziger Stadtgeschichte. 2011 yearbook . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2012, ISBN 978-3-86729-118-7 , pp. 117-132.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the online catalog of the Leipzig University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
- ↑ exemplary: Leipzig address book 1925 . Leipzig 1924, p. 571.
- ↑ subsequently notarized proof of birth of Regina Lissos. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
- ^ Subsequently notarized proof of death of Regina Lissos. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Heslop's photograph from April 19, 1945 in the holdings of the Leipzig City History Museum, Inv.-No .: F / 1486/2010. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ^ Life . 18 (1945), No. 20, May 14, p. 32 ( page on Google Books, accessed August 19, 2017 ).
- ↑ exemplary: Christian Goeschel: The last way out . In: ZEIT history . No. 1 , 2015 ( article on ZEIT Online [accessed August 19, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lisso, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lisso, Ernst Kurt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and National Socialist local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grand bather |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1945 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |