List of fatalities in the air raids on Dresden in February 1945

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"View into a public air raid shelter with 243 bodies, 14 months after the air raid" ( Richard Peter , April 1946)

The list of fatalities in the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 lists people who were killed in the Allied bombing raids on Dresden from February 13 to 15, 1945. Around 20,100 victims could be identified by name, of at least 22,700 but a maximum of 25,000 victims. Among them were the residents of the “Judenhaus” Sporergasse 2, the former Jewish community center.

The victims known by name have been recorded in a database through the work of the Historians' Commission since 2010 and can be viewed via the Dresden City Archives (visit on site required). It is kept up to date. For the publicly relevant presentation, the city of Dresden has decided to make it available on the Internet only in summary form (i.e. without a name) for a building or property, also while maintaining post-mortem personal rights .

The list is therefore only a (very small) excerpt from the existing list of names. The mention does not include any evaluation and is also not representative.

Alphabetical:

  • Karl Paul Andrae (1886–1945), architect
  • Nikolaus von Ballestrem (1900–1945), politician and industrialist
  • Ellen Regina Beer , art rider from the Sarrasani circus in Dresden, who was still playing on February 13, before the air raid started. She and 17 men led the circus horses to the Elbe when she was the victim of the bombing in the second attack near the Carolabrücke. When she was found she was clutching the reins of her dead double pony.
  • Cornelius Hendrikus Dorré , SS man from the Netherlands
  • Rudolf Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1861–1945), public prosecutor and genealogist
  • Gustav Eisenreich (1867–1945), geologist, teacher, conservationist
  • Ottomar Enking (1867–1945), writer
  • Wilhelm Franke (1891–1945), with wife Margarete and daughter Gela
  • Arno Fuchs (1869–1945), educator
  • Oswald Hempel (1895–1945), puppeteer
  • Richard Holz (1873–1945), former Lord Mayor of Zwickau
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hörnlein (1873–1945), painter
  • Otto Ivers (1895–1945), NSDAP politician and chemist
  • Janko Janeff (1900–1945), Bulgarian poet
  • Ernst Kegel (1876–1945), chemist
  • Georg Kelling (1866–1945) and wife, internist
  • Georg Kind (1897–1945), sculptor
  • Dora Koering (1880–1945), tennis player
  • Johannes Krüger , deputy commander of the prisoners of war in military district IV
  • Theodor Hermann Kühn, who had been a student at the Kreuzschule since 1942, was supposed to be sent home at his father's request, but before that, like 11 Kreuzschule students, he died on February 13 when their school was destroyed.
  • Katharina Ursula Langhorst (born May 30, 1922 in Dresden), was a member of a social democratic resistance network in Dresden, suffocated with her son and parents on February 13 in the cellar
  • Dmytro Ładyka (1889–1945), Ukrainian politician (member of the Polish Sejm ), lawyer and social activist from Ternopil .
  • Franz Lehmann (1899–1945), died in Gestapo custody from the bombing
  • Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen (1897–1945), lawyer and National Socialist, involved in organizing the Holocaust.
  • Adolf Liebermann (1891–1945), sculptor, his studio was also destroyed
  • Paul Lindau (1881–1945), sculptor
  • Adolf Mahnke , director of the painting room in the Dresden theater and professor, died with his wife in the bomb shelter of his home
  • Karl Emil Mannsfeld (1865–1945), politician (Minister of Justice in Saxony) and lawyer (Higher Regional Court Councilor)
  • Otto Oesterhelt (1883–1945), geodesist and professor
  • Václav Rýdl and Vincenc Rýdl, Czech resistance fighters, were imprisoned in Dresden at the district court on Münchner Platz , where they died in the bomb attack.
  • Georg Rüth (1880–1945), civil engineer, previously restored the Frauenkirche
  • Gertrud Schäfer (1880–1945), painter
  • Otto Eduard Schmidt (1855–1945), educator and historical writer
  • Richard Schmidt (1871–1945), SPD politician
  • Alfred Schrapel (1885–1945), local politician, worker functionary, anti-fascist
  • Wilhelm Otto Schumann (1886–1945), liberal pastor. Died with his wife, daughter and granddaughter and two other pastor families in the air raid shelter on 13/14. February.
  • Josef Simon (1868–1945), plant physiologist
  • Alfred and Iwan Schwarz. Some of the last residents of the so-called Jewish houses in Dresden (Sporergasse 2). Both were disabled.
  • Stepan Efremowitsch Stepankow, Soviet prisoner of war since 1942, forced labor in the air defense, died in the bombing on February 13th.
  • Arno Straube (1915–1945), mountaineer and anti-fascist
  • Hildegarda Voglová , Czech Jewish X-ray doctor , prisoner in the Striesen metalworks and victim of the bomb attack, suffocated and burned to death in the infirmary of her camp. A total of seven prisoners died there in the attack.
  • Otto Zipfel (1886–1945), former KPD member

Web links

Commons : Victims of the air raids on Dresden  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Schreg, The Bomb Victims of Dresden - Historical Archeology Against Their Abuse , Archaeologik, February 13, 2020
  2. ↑ Rolf-Dieter Müller , Nicole Schönherr, Thomas Widera (eds.): The destruction of Dresden on 13./15. February 1945: Expert opinion and results of the Dresden Historical Commission to determine the number of victims. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-773-0 ( book excerpt online ; review ), final report online , there several references, a. a. P. 67.
  3. ↑ This geodatabase can be viewed online here .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Nineteen out of Nineteen Thousand , Heinrich Böll Foundation Dresden