Kurt Rühlmann

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Stolperstein at Dirschelweg 16

Kurt Rühlmann ( April 26, 1903 in Beelitz - January 8, 1945 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German locksmith and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed with the guillotine .

Life

Plaque for Paul Hirsch , Paul Junius , Karl charge , Kurt Rühlmann, Stanislaus Szczygielski , Hermann Wolff and Walter Zimmermann in Großbeerenstraße 2 in Berlin-Mariendorf

Rühlmann was a trained locksmith. From 1936 he worked in the Askania factory in Berlin-Weißensee as a mechanic, from 1942 as an appointment manager. He lived in Mariendorf, Strasse 14 (today Freibergstrasse ) No. 16.

He was a member of the German Metal Workers Association , the International Workers Aid and in 1927/28 also in the KPD , from which he - like his father, belonged to the militant DNVP field organization Stahlhelm - was expelled.

As a member of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization , Rühlmann took part in consultations about resistance work against armaments production in the Askania works and distributed pamphlets. The Gestapo arrested him in July 1944, the People's Court sentenced him together with Karl charge , Stanislaus Szczygielski and Walter Zimmermann on 29 or 30 November, 1944 to death by the guillotine . The ruling was on January 8, 1945 in the penitentiary Brandenburg-Gorden enforced .

Honors

  • Since 2014, there has been a memorial plaque for six workers and employees of the Askania works, including Kurt Rühlmann, who were murdered by the Nazi judiciary at Großbeerenstraße 2 in Berlin-Mariendorf.
  • In front of the house at Dirschelweg 16 in Berlin-Mariendorf there has been a stumbling block since November 17, 2008 , which reminds of the executed resistance fighter.

Web links

Commons : Kurt Rühlmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Schilde: From Columbia-Haus to Schulenburgring: Documentation with life stories of victims of the resistance and persecution from 1933 to 1945 from the Tempelhof district. Berlin: Hentrich 1987, 125
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Fieber, Lothar Berthold, Michele Barricelli: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945: a biographical lexicon, Volume 5 , Trafo-Verlag 2004, 13
  3. ↑ Diverging information; it is also possible that the process took two days.
  4. ↑ We accuse !: 800 Nazi blood judges: Supporting the militaristic Adenauer regime , Committee for German Unity 1959, 95
  5. ^ Emil Ackermann: From the Tempelhof history: Naziterror and resistance , VdA 1984, 25
  6. ↑ Gerhart Haas: Germany in the Second World War: The smashing of Hitlerite fascism and the liberation of the German people: June 1944 to May 8, 1945 , Pahl-Rugenstein 1985, 265
  7. ↑ Inauguration of the memorial to the workers' resistance in Askania Werke AG against the Nazi regime ( memento of January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 9, 2015
  8. ↑ List of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Mariendorf
personal data
SURNAME Rühlmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Beelitz
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1945
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel