Otto Lehmann (resistance fighter)

Otto Lehmann (born August 19, 1900 in Magdeburg ; † May 9, 1936 there ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Lehmann was born as the son of August Otto Lehmann. After attending school, he became a construction worker and joined the KPD in 1925 . In 1925 he married Gertrud Köhler , who later also became known as a resistance fighter. The marriage had three children. Together with his wife, Lehmann was mainly active in the KPD local group in the Magdeburg district of Buckau .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Lehmann became involved in illegality and was a member of the leadership of the Magdeburg KPD, where he also worked with Walter Kaßner . He distributed leaflets and organized secret meetings and support for the families of detainees. Members of the SA raided his home. After a campaign to distribute leaflets, he was arrested in May 1935, but was released a few weeks later. He continued to get involved and was arrested again in 1936. A charge of high treason followed . He was severely tortured and ill-treated during interrogation. He died as a result of the injuries he suffered.

The burial took place in the Buckau cemetery . Anneliese Lehmann, Lehmann's daughter, who was born on June 9, 1926, was also a victim of the National Socialist tyranny. After both parents were arrested in 1936, the daughter, who suffered from a thyroid disease but was otherwise healthy, was no longer given any necessary medication. After she was brought to the Uchtspringe hospital for observation , she was later transferred to the Grafeneck state nursing home , where she was killed in a gas chamber . The mother was informed that Anneliese had died on September 16, 1940 as a result of an epileptic fit. Anneliese had never suffered from epilepsy.

House Alt Fermersleben 84 with the inscription "Otto-Lehmann-Platz 1"

Honors

During the GDR era, the city of Magdeburg named a school ( POS Otto Lehmann ) and a square in the Magdeburg district of Fermersleben after him. The school was later referred to only as the Fermersleben primary school. The naming of the place was given up. Today it is no longer officially named, but the name has been preserved in the vernacular and also in the street scene. The name of Otto Lehmann and his daughter Anneliese are immortalized on the memorial for the Magdeburg resistance fighters .

literature

Roswitha Willenius: Lehmann, Otto. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 410 f. ( Article online ).

Individual evidence

^ Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Magdeburg city administration of the SED (ed.): Short biographies of Magdeburg resistance fighters , no year, about 1976, page 45 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Lehmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	19th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1936
Place of death	Magdeburg

[1] Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Magdeburg city administration of the SED (ed.): Short biographies of Magdeburg resistance fighters , no year, about 1976, page 45 f.