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Friedrich Meier * 1865

Framheinstraße 4 (Hamburg-Nord, Barmbek-Süd)

HIER WOHNTE
FRIEDRICH MEIER
JG. 1865
MEHRMALS VERHAFTET
ZULETZT 1940
KZ FUHLSBÜTTEL
FLUCHT IN DEN TOD
2.3.1940

Friedrich Theodor Christian Heinrich Meier, born on 1 July 1865, arrested in 1939, suicide on 2 Mar. 1940 in Hamburg

Framheinstrasse 4

According to the landlady Mrs. Lampa residing at Framheinstrasse 4 on the second floor, "I will get you where you belong in the end,” were the words of an unknown man who called on her subtenant Friedrich Meier on the morning of 2 Mar. 1940. This stranger reportedly demanded money and threatened with a prison sentence. Not putting up any resistance, the 74-year-old man allowed his coat to be rifled and 10 marks to be taken. Then, later that morning, the landlady found Friedrich Meier hanged in his room that he had rented from her only since Feb. 1940.

The retiree Friedrich Meier, born on 1 July 1865 in Neu Lüblow (Mecklenburg), was widowed and had a son and a stepdaughter. The police was unable to establish the whereabouts of the former, and the latter did not wish to have anything to do with her stepfather.

Possibly, Friedrich Meier had been blackmailed because of homosexual acts, for it is likely that he was identical with the Friedrich Meier who was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp from 10 until 16 Mar. 1939 on the orders of the 24th Office of the Criminal Investigation Department (24. Kriminalkommissariat).


Translator: Erwin Fink

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2017
© Bernhard Rosenkranz (†)/Ulf Bollmann

Quellen: StaHH, 331-5 Polizeibehörde – Unnatürliche Sterbefälle, 765/40; StaHH, 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, Abl. 2, 451 a E 1, 1 d; B. Rosenkranz/U. Bollmann/G. Lorenz: Homosexuellen-Verfolgung in Hamburg 1919–1969, S. 235–236.