August landmesser picture
The man in the crowd picture
Gustav wegert.
August Landmesser
German man who defied the Nazis
August Landmesser (German:[ˈaʊ̯ɡʊstˈlantˌmɛsɐ]; 24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.[2][3] 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.[citation needed]
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 certainty—another family claims that the man is Gustav Wegert.[citation needed]
Biography
August Landmesser was born in Moorrege in 1910, the only child of August Franz Landmesser and Wilhelmine Magdalene (née Schmidtpott).[4] In 1931, hoping it would help him get employment, he joi