August Landmesser
1910–1944
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Occupation
- laborer
August Landmesser (German: [ËaÊ̯ɡÊst ËlantËmÉsÉ]; 24 May 1910 â 17 October 1944) was a German man who is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- JVA Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel ('Santa Fu')Dates unknown
- Börgermoor concentration campDates unknown
Biography
August Landmesser (German: [ËaÊ̯ɡÊst ËlantËmÉsÉ]; 24 May 1910 â 17 October 1944) was a German man who is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute. Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. For this, he was imprisoned and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action. Years after his death, his daughter suggested that he was the man in the famous photograph. However, the identity of the man in the photograph is not known with certaintyâanother family claims that the man is Gustav Wegert.
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