Paul Freymuth

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Paul Freymuth (* 1881 in Mehlauken ; † June 25, 1944 in Weimar ) was a German lawyer and district court director in Dortmund and a Jewish victim of fascism .

Life

Freymuth came from a middle-class family with Jewish roots and studied law . From 1927 he was regional court director in Dortmund. In August 1933 he was forcibly transferred to Recklinghausen as a district judge according to §5 BBG . In 1935 he was forced to retire. In 1936 the family moved to Garmisch . In the following year, 1937, he is said to have taken up an apartment in Jena , where he lived with his wife and three daughters at Johannisplatz 16. On November 10, 1938, 17 other Jewish men were deported to Buchenwald Concentration Camp and after a few weeks returned to his family with broken front teeth. On June 14, 1944, he was arrested again and taken to Buchenwald again, where he died ten days later.

On January 27, 1948, his widow gave Margarete in Criminal Jena information about the circumstances of his harassment and death to protocol . She reported on the cruel interrogation methods used by Gestapo officer Waldemar Eißfeld .

In 2009 the artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of the house at Johannisplatz 16 in Jena in his memory.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Justice Ministerial Gazette for Prussian Legislation and Administration of Justice 95 (1933), p. 265 (No. 37 of August 21, 1933)
  2. ↑ Bergemann / Ladwig-Winters: Judges and prosecutors of Jewish origin, p. 175
  3. ^ Otmar Jung: Senate President Freymuth. Judge, social democrat and pacifist in the Weimar Republic. A political biography, Frankfurt / Main 1989 (legal history series vol. 68), p. 323
  4. ^ Jena Judaism Working Group, Gisela Müller, letter of April 29, 2009
  5. ^ The Gestapo in the NS-Gau Thuringia, p. 413
personal data
SURNAME Freymuth, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Mehlauken
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1944
Place of death Weimar