Philipp Brunnemer

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Philipp Brunnemer (born April 19, 1867 in Weingarten (Palatinate) , † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German social democratic resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

Philipp Brunnemer came from a social democratic working class family . After completing his school education, he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter . He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1890 . He also held a leading position in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . Even before and after the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was an opponent of National Socialism .

When the Nazi state triggered the Second World War , Brunnemer became a member of the resistance organization around Georg Lechleiter . In the basement of his house on Margeritenweg 3 he had hidden a duplicating machine on which the illegal newspaper “Der Vorbote” was printed from September 1941 . Brunnemer's daughter Käthe Seitz had previously described the matrices for it in Rohrbach (Heidelberg) . The newspaper printed four numbers before the Gestapo could unmask the group. Brunnemer, his daughter Käthe and her husband Alfred Seitz were among the many arrested .

Before the People's Court , which met in Mannheim, Brunnemer was one of the 14 defendants who were sentenced to death on May 15, 1942 for preparing to commit high treason , favoring the enemy, degrading military strength and distributing foreign radio programs. On September 15, 1942, Philipp Brunnemer lost his life under the guillotine of the Stuttgart Regional Court. His daughter and son-in-law were also executed on the same day.

Brunnemer's wife Luise died in January 1945 in the Neckarbischofsheim hospital under unexplained circumstances.

memory

  • The Philipp-Brunnemer-Weg commemorates him in Mannheim's garden city.
  • In front of Philipp-Brunnemer-Weg 3 in the Mannheim garden city, a stumbling block was laid in his memory .

literature

  • Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume I, Bonn 1995, p. 58, ISBN 3-89331-208-0
  • AU Machmol: " Lifelong human" or outsider, the strong of the weak. A novel-like tale , ISBN 978-3-7357-3516-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://widerstandausstellung.mop.de/ausstellung/die_lechleiter-gruppe_kaethe_seitz.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.stolpersteine-heidelberg.de/kaethe-alfred-seitz.html
  3. ↑ https://www.marchivum.de/sites/default/files/2018-04/Gartenstadt_Brunnemer.pdf
  4. ↑ Laying locations at www.mannheim.de
personal data
SURNAME Brunnemer, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democratic resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Weingarten (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1942
Place of death Stuttgart