Walter Meidt

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Walter Meidt (born January 4, 1908 in Gardelegen , † October 15, 1929 in Hanover ) was a German police officer .

Life

Walter Meidt, born in the German Empire and trained as a police sergeant at the time of the Weimar Republic, protected a gathering of National Socialists on October 15, 1929 and was killed in a street battle during the event. According to other sources, Meidt's death date was October 14, 1929

Meidtstrasse

After seizing power in 1933, the Nazis named the 1919 scale and originally by the Jewish banker, Privy Councilor of Commerce and Chairman of the Lindener iron and steel works and the Continental Gummi-Werke AG named Bernhard-Caspar -Straße in Hanover district Linden Center to in Meidtstrasse . After the liberation of Hanover by American troops, the street was given its original name again under the British military authorities in 1945.

Memorial stone

In 2019, the Hanover Police Directorate organized an exhibition in the old canteen of the Police Directorate at Waterloostraße 9 with the title Friends - Helpers - Street Fighters: The Police in the Weimar Republic . During the guided tours through the site by police officers, visitors were shown, among other things, the memorial stone for Walter Meidt on the police site.

literature

  • Raimond Reiter: Who stabbed police officer Walter Meidt in 1929? , In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 51 (1997), pp. 167–177
  • Simon Benne : Who stabbed Sergeant Meidt? Hanover's police headquarters is 200 years old and the HAZ is reminiscent of spectacular criminal cases. Today: A police officer died in riots by Nazis and leftists in 1929 - his death is still a mystery today . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Newspaper for Hanover and the surrounding area , Hanover: Madsack, 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Helmut Zimmermann : Bernhard-Caspar-Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 38
  2. ↑ a b ots: POL-H: Wait, wait a while - then comes Haarmann's "Hackebeilchen": exhibition on the "Weimar Republic" is extended - focus on serial killers , article from March 21, 2019 on presseportal.de , last accessed October 27, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c o. V .: Meidt, Walter in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 20, 2009, last accessed on October 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Meidt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Guards
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1929
Place of death Hanover