Rudolf Timm

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Rudolf Heinrich Eggert Timm (* 1901 near Kaltenkirchen ; † 23/24 January 1934 in the Neumünster police prison ) was a German political functionary ( KPD ) and victim of the Nazi regime.

Live and act

Rudolf Timm joined the KPD in the 1920s, for which he actively campaigned at his home in Neumünster. Walter A. Schmidt describes him as “the top KPD functionary in Neumünster, who was furiously hated by the Nazis”. In the final phase of the Weimar Republic , he was sentenced twice to prison terms for violating the peace and was injured once by political opponents with firearms.

After the National Socialists came to power , Timm was taken into protective custody for a short time . After his release he moved to Koblenz .

At the beginning of January 1934, Timm received a request from the police to return to Neumünster. He was arrested as soon as he arrived at the train station. He was taken to the police jail in Haar. Timm was supposed to be transferred to a concentration camp in Emsland on January 24, 1934. On the night of January 23 to 24, 1934, members of the SS gained access to his cell. Timm was hanged in his cell, whereby the act was disguised as suicide: This cause of death was stated in appropriate newspaper reports and also entered on his official death certificate. Similarly, in February 1934, Christian Heuck's murder was covered up.

After the Second World War , there were investigations and finally a trial before the district court in Kiel for the murder of Timm: These revealed that SS-Sturmbannführer Hinrich Möller , who acted as acting head of the municipal police and the Neumünster police force in 1934, was in January 1934 had received the order signed by Heinrich Himmler to kill Timms and Heucks from a senior SS leader . After receiving the order, Möller selected a handful of members of his SS-Sturmbanns Neumünster to help him carry out the order. He did not want to reveal the names of the men during the investigation and claimed that they had all perished in the war. Möller was sentenced to death by the Kiel Regional Court for the murders of Heuck and Timm. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1948.

A stumbling block was laid in front of the house at Carlstrasse 23 in Neumünster, where Timm lived around 1932 .

literature

  • Reimer Möller: "The murders of the SS on KPD functionaries Rudolf Timm and Christian Heuck in Neumünster in 1934", in: Informations zur Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary History (2003), No. 41/42, pp. 155–165.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter A. Schmidt: So that Germany lives: a source work on the German anti-fascist resistance struggle, 1933-1945 , 1959, p. 266.
  2. ↑ Edith Raun: Justice between dictatorship and democracy, p. 755.
  3. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR. The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , 1991, p. 281.
  4. ↑ http://kulturraum-neumuenster.de/stolpersteine/uebersicht-stolpersteine/rudolf-heinrich-eggert-timm.html .
personal data
SURNAME Timm, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timm, Rudolf Heinrich Eggert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary (KPD) and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH near Kaltenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1934 or January 24, 1934
Place of death Neumünster police prison