Richard Lehmann (resistance fighter)
Fritz Richard Leopold Lehmann (born January 28, 1900 in Vienna , † January 12, 1945 in Dresden (executed)) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Richard Lehmann studied economics and newspaper science in Leipzig from 1922 . With Otto Stammer he founded a socialist student group here. After graduating, he became an editor at the Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ). After the LVZ was banned in 1933, he worked as a sales representative and then as a commercial clerk at a real estate agent.
Lehmann had been a member of the SPD since 1923 . Around 1941 he got in touch with the anti-fascist resistance struggle through the group around Rudolf Hardtmann. Among other things, he hid people persecuted by the National Socialists in his apartment. He joined the Leipzig resistance group around Georg Schumann . With this he was arrested in August 1944. He was sentenced to death on November 24th and executed in Dresden on January 12th, 1945. His grave is in the Leipzig south cemetery .
Honor
On August 1, 1945, the approximately three-kilometer-long Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse, laid out in 1884 in the southern suburb of Leipzig, was renamed Richard-Lehmann-Strasse .
literature
- Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 .
- LVZ editor in the resistance . Leipziger Volkszeitung, Friday, January 29, 2010, p. 22
Web links
- Dieter Kürschner: Lehmann, Fritz Richard Leopold . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehmann, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lehmann, Fritz Richard Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |