Otto Ernst Fritsch

Otto Ernst Fritsch (born December 5, 1908 in Bingen am Rhein , † after 1979) was a German painter and opponent of National Socialism.

Fritsch belonged to the SPD and was "a longstanding opponent of National Socialist anti-Semitism ". After a public protest after the Reichspogromnacht in 1939, he found protection through a voluntary report to the Air Force . In 1943 he wanted to save an acquaintance from the Holocaust and was captured by the Secret State Police , tortured and classified as a "Jew friend". In 1975, Fritsch was accepted into the ranks of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem .

literature

Friend of the persecuted in dire need. The Otto Ernst Fritsch case. In: Structure . Volume 38, No. 8, February 25, 1972, p. 5.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Otto Ernst Fritsch , eART.de, accessed on July 6, 2013.
^ Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Vol. 1: Germans and Austrians. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , p. 115 f. ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Fritsch, Otto Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and opponent of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bingen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH	after 1979

[ea-1] Otto Ernst Fritsch , eART.de, accessed on July 6, 2013.

[2] Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Vol. 1: Germans and Austrians. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , p. 115 f. ( online ).