^ Simone Erpel: Zivilcourage : Schlüsselbild einer unvollendeten "Volksgemeinschaft".^ "The Man who defied Hitler died in Yugoslavia".Almost everyone in the image has raised their arm in the Nazi salute, with the most obvious exception of a man toward the back of the crowd, who grimly stands with his arms crossed over his chest. It shows a large gathering of workers at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg for the launching of the navy training ship Horst Wessel.
Irene continued to use the surname Eckler.Ī figure identified by Irene Eckler as August Landmesser is visible in a photograph taken on 13 June 1936, which was published in 1991 in Die Zeit. In the autumn of that year Ingrid assumed the surname Landmesser. The marriage of August Landmesser and Irma Eckler was recognized retroactively by the Senate of Hamburg in the summer of 1951. After her grandmother's death in 1953, Ingrid also was placed with foster parents. In 1941, Irene went to the home of foster parents. Later, Ingrid was allowed to live with her maternal grandmother. Initially, their children were taken to the city orphanage. Like Eckler, he was declared legally dead in 1949. After fighting in Croatia on 17 October 1944, he was declared killed in action. In February 1944 he was drafted into a penal battalion, the 999th Fort Infantry Battalion. The company had a branch at the Heinkel-Werke (factory) in Warnemünde. He worked as a foreman for the haulage company Püst. Meanwhile, Landmesser was discharged from prison on 19 January 1941. In the course of post-war documentation, in 1949, she was pronounced legally dead, with a date of 28 April 1942. It is believed that she was taken to the Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in February 1942, where she was among the 14,000 murdered. A few letters from Irma Eckler were received until January 1942. From there, Eckler was sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp, then to the Lichtenburg concentration camp for women, and finally to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück. Eckler was detained by the Gestapo and held at the prison Fuhlsbüttel, where she gave birth to their second daughter, Irene. The couple publicly continued their relationship, and on 15 July 1938, Landmesser was arrested again and sentenced to two and a half years in the Börgermoor concentration camp. He was acquitted on for lack of evidence, with the warning that a repeat offense would result in a multi-year prison sentence. He argued that neither he nor Eckler knew whether she was fully Jewish. In 1937, Landmesser attempted to flee Nazi Germany to Denmark with his family but he was detained at the border and charged with " dishonoring the race," or "racial infamy," under the Nuremberg Laws. ġ936 photo, in which a man alleged to be August Landmesser is conspicuously not giving the Nazi salute On 29 October 1935, Landmesser and Eckler's first daughter, Ingrid, was born. They registered to be married in Hamburg, but the Nuremberg Laws enacted a month later prevented it. In 1935, when he became engaged to Irma Eckler (a Jewish woman), he was expelled from the party. In 1931, hoping it would help him get employment, he joined the Nazi Party. Later he was imprisoned, and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.Īugust Landmesser was born in Moorrege in 1910, the only child of August Franz Landmesser and Wilhelmine Magdalene (née Schmidtpott). Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. He became known as the possible identity of a man appearing in a 1936 photograph, conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute with the other workers. Irma Eckler (a 1935 marriage illegal under the Nuremberg Laws, but retroactively legalized in 1951)Īugust Landmesser ( – 17 October 1944) was a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. None forcible conscription by Nazi Germany
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