70 years ago on this date, April 9,
1945, the German Resistance member, Johann Georg Elser was executed for his
role in attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. We, the comrades of Unit 1012,
recognize him as a murdered victim and also a hero where we will not forget
him. We will post information about him from Wikipedia and other links.
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| Johann Georg Elser |
Born
|
4
January 1903
Hermaringen, Württemberg |
Died
|
9 April
1945 (aged 42)
Dachau concentration camp |
Cause of
death
|
Executed
for murder
|
Nationality
|
German
|
Occupation
|
Carpenter
|
Known for
|
Attempting
to assassinate Adolf Hitler
|
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 – 9 April
1945) was a German cabinet maker who planned and carried out an elaborate
assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders, on 8
November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. He was held without trial as a
special prisoner of Adolf Hitler for over five years until executed in Dachau
concentration camp.
Background
Family and
early life
Career and
social life
Ideology and
religion
Prelude
Motive
Plot
Bürgerbräukeller
Bombing
Hitler's
escape
Honouring the
victims
Arrest
Investigation
Interrogation
in Munich
Interrogation
in Berlin
Interrogation
report
Nazi
propaganda
Torture,
drugs and hypnosis
Reconstruction
of the bomb
Aftermath
Consequences
for associates
Imprisonment
Death
Conspiracy
theories
Legacy
In contrast to the conspirators of 20
July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, Georg Elser was barely acknowledged
in the official commemorative culture of the Federal Republic of Germany until the
1990s. A breakthrough to a positive way of looking at Elser came with the
publication of a biography by Hellmut G. Haasis in 1999. followed by an
expanded and revised edition in 2009. Since 2001, every two years the
Georg-Elser Prize is awarded for courage, and on the occasion of Elser's 100th
Birthday, Deutsche Post issued a special stamp in January 2003.
As well there are many streets and
places named after Elser in Germany and several monuments. Claus Christian
Malzahn wrote in 2005: 'That he was for so long ignored by the historians of
both East and West Germany, merely goes to show just how long it took Germany
to become comfortable with honestly confronting its own history. Johann Georg
Elser, though, defied ideological categorization—and for that reason, he is a
true German hero.'
In 2008 a music venue called Georg
Elser Hallen was demolished in Munich. However in 2014 there were five venues
in Munich that come under the name Georg Elser Hallen. In 2011 a 17-metre
(56 ft) steel sculpture of Georg Elser was unveiled in Berlin, by German
playwright Rolf Hochhuth. The memorial, which cost 200,000
euros, was built on Mr Hochhuth's initiative, after the city authorities
dismissed the project as too expensive. In the end, the Berlin state senate
financed the Elser sculpture. In September 1979 the Bürgerbräukeller was
demolished. On its site now stands the GEMA
Building, the Gastrieg Cultural Centre and the Munich City Hilton Hotel. A
plaque in the pavement at the entrance to the GEMA Building marks the position
of the pillar that concealed Elser's bomb.
The story of Elser is commemorated in
the 2014 film 13 Minutes (German:
Elser) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
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