Wilhelm Dieckmann (resistance fighter, 1893)

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Wilhelm Dieckmann (born July 17, 1893 in Stotel , Geestemünde district ; † September 13, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German officer ( captain d. R.), archivist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

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Dieckmann was born in 1893 as the son of superintendent Heinrich Dieckmann and his wife. After graduating from high school , he studied theology , philosophy and history from 1912 to 1914 at the University of Leipzig , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Georg August University in Göttingen . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Göttingen . In the First World War he served as a lieutenant . From 1920 to 1922 he studied notarial science , economics and history in Berlin. In 1923 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on the rescuer's claim for reimbursement of expenses . He entered the civil service and was finally employed in the economic department of the Reich Archives in Potsdam, later transferred to the Research Institute for War and Army History and promoted to the rank of senior government councilor (1936). In addition to his archival work, he performed military exercises in the Potsdamer Infantry Regiment 9 and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1935 and to captain of the reserve in 1938 . In 1939 he became commander of the 477 Infantry Battalion.

Through his work Dieckmann met Erika Freiin Mertz von Quirnheim , the eldest daughter of Lieutenant General and President of the Reich Archives, Hermann Mertz von Quirnheim , whom he eventually married. The marriage resulted in three daughters and one son.

After the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 Dieckmann went quickly distanced itself from the new regime. He became a member of the Confessing Church and had been active in the resistance since 1935 . Through his brother-in-law, Colonel Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim , he came into contact with the officers' conspiracy around Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , which resulted in the coup d'état of July 20, 1944 . Shortly after the attempted coup failed, Dieckmann was arrested by the Gestapo . After brutal interrogation, he was shot dead by members of the Gestapo on September 13, 1944 in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin.

His brother's wife Gudrun Mertz von Quirnheim was with the Major General of the Army and later the kasernierte volkspolizei Otto Korfes married, of a leading member of the National Committee for a Free Germany and the German federal officers belonged

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  • Claim for reimbursement of expenses by the rescuer , Göttingen 1923 (dissertation)

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  1. ↑ Military history research office : Military history reports , 1995, p. 285.
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Eberhard Zeller: The Flame of Freedom. The German Struggle Against Hitler , 1969, p. 416.
  4. ↑ Marc Zirlewagen:  DIECKMANN, Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 501-504.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
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SURNAME Dieckmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, archival and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Stotel
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1944
Place of death Berlin