Fritz Goerdeler

Fritz Hermann Goerdeler ( born March 6, 1886 in Pila, † March 1, 1945 in Berlin- Plotzensee ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Fritz Hermann Goerdeler was born as the younger brother of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler. After the First World War, he worked as a lawyer since 1920 and as mayor in Marienwerderstraße. Under pressure from the Nazis, he had to give up these offices in 1933.

Goerdeler was then 1933-1944 City Treasurer of Königsberg. He married his sister Susanne Ulrich. From this marriage three daughters and one son.

He wanted to be just like his brother with the states in Nazi Germany not resign and followed this in the resistance. At the beginning of 1943 took Fritz Goerdeler the task allies for the planned coup to advertise in Königsberg. He maintained this close contacts with military resistance circles.

After the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944, the Gestapo arrested along with other members of the Fritz Goerdeler family. On 23 February 1945 he was sentenced to death and hanged on March 1, 1945 in Plotzensee.

His nephew was the lawyer and accountant Reinhard Goerdeler.

Like his brother, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, he was a member of the fraternity Turnerschaft Eberhardina Tübingen (now Old Turnerschaft Eberhardina - Markomannia ).