{"id":855,"date":"2023-07-20T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/?page_id=855"},"modified":"2023-07-29T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T08:30:46","slug":"contemporary-witness-wolfgang-breckheimer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/permanent-exhibitions\/history-of-the-former-police-prison-and-its-use-during-national-socialism-1886-1945\/contemporary-witness-wolfgang-breckheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"<span>Contemporary witness Wolfgang Breckheimer<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00bbI want to report from my life and the life of my parents and the entanglement with the events and traditions of the struggling working class under fascism.\u00ab<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Wolfgang Breckheimer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:px; margin:0px auto;\" >\r\n<video class=\"player378\" \r\nposter=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer.jpg\" \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n>\r\n\r\n<source src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_1_HighRes.mp4\"  type=\"video\/mp4\" size=\"720\" \/>\r\n \r\n\t<source src=\"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_1_HighRes.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" size=\"\" \/><source src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_2_MediumRes.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" size=\"480\" \/><source src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_3_LowRes.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" size=\"360\" \/><track src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_Subtitle_DE.vtt\" kind=\"captions\" label=\"Deutsch\" \/><track src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_Subtitle_EN.vtt\" kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" \/>  Your browser does not support the video tag. <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zeitzeugen_Ria_und_Wolfgang_Breckheimer_1_HighRes.mp4\" download>Download Video<\/a>\r\n  \r\n<\/video>\r\n<style>\r\n.plyr__control[data-plyr=\"play\"]{\r\n  background: #e0e0e0 !important;\r\n  color: #ffffff !important;\r\n}\r\n.plyr--full-ui input[type=range]{\r\n  color: #e0e0e0 !important;\r\n}\r\n.plyr__control{\r\n  color: #e0e0e0!important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.plyr__time, .plyr__time--duration{\r\n color: #e0e0e0!important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.plyr__tooltip{color: #e0e0e0!important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/*Secondery*\/\r\n\r\nbutton.plyr__control:hover{\r\n  background: #c91e1e!important; }\r\n\r\n\r\n.plyr--audio .plyr__control[aria-expanded=true] {\r\nbackground: #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n.plyr--video .plyr__control[aria-expanded=true] {\r\nbackground: #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n.plyr__control--overlaid:hover {\r\nbackground: #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n.plyr__menu__container .plyr__control[role=menuitemradio][aria-checked=true]::before {\r\n    background: #c91e1e!important; }\r\n.plyr--full-ui input[type=range] {\r\ncolor: #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n.plyr--audio .plyr__control[aria-expanded=true] {\r\nbackground: #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n.plyr--video .plyr__control[aria-expanded=true] {\r\nbackground: #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n.plyr__control--overlaid:hover {\r\n   #c91e1e!important;}\r\n.plyr__menu__container .plyr__control[role=menuitemradio][aria-checked=true]::before {\r\n    #c91e1e!important;}\r\n\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\r\nconst players378 = Plyr.setup('.player378', {\r\n\thideControls:false,\t\r\n\tsettings:['captions', 'quality', 'speed', 'loop'],\r\n\tquality: { default: 720, options: [4320, 2880, 2160, 1440, 1080, 720, 576, 480, 360, 240] },\r\n\tcontrols: [\r\n\t'play-large',\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t'play',\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t'progress',\t'current-time',\t\r\n\t'duration',\t 'mute',\t'captions',\r\n\t'volume',\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t'settings', \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t'pip',\t\t\r\n\t'fullscreen',\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t],\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subtitles in German and English can be activated in the video at the bottom right via the video player settings.<br><em>Interview: History working group of the \u00bbFaites votre jeu!\u00ab initiative at May 17, 2009.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"curriculum-vitae-wolfgang-breckheimer\"><span>Curriculum vitae Wolfgang Breckheimer<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolfgang Breckheimer was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1926. He grew up in the working-class district of Riederwald in a social democratic home. In 1922 his father, the woodworker Wilhelm Breckheimer, had married the Jewish woman C\u00e4cilie Segalowitsch. She had grown up as an orphan in an SAJ children\u2018s home and was a self-confident young woman. Wolfgang Breckheimer completed an apprenticeship as a book printer. When the Nuremberg Laws came into force, this was only possible for him as a \u00bbJewish half-breed\u00ab through his mother\u2018s secret friendly contacts with the \u00bbF\u00fchrsorgeamt\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this time, Wolfgang Breckheimer came into contact with the \u00bbEdelweiss Pirates\u00ab in his vocational school class, a group of young people who categorically rejected coercion and drill as practised in the uniformed Hitler Youth (HJ). They liked to wear colourful scarves and long hair, and met in their free time to hike, discuss, make music, and dance the tango. It was in 1942 that they noticed him because of his critical statements on the war and his long hair, and he was invited to join them. The group often went to the Taunus, where they organised their tent camps in hiding. Wolfgang Breckheimer writes about his time as an \u00bbEdelweiss Pirate\u00ab: \u00bbHere I lost the otherwise prevailing feeling of powerlessness. In the community of the group, strength and hope flowed to me for a time without concentration camps and for personal happiness.\u00ab Twice, with a lot of luck, he only narrowly managed to escape arrest by the SA. His mother C\u00e4cilie Breckheimer received a summons to Lindenstrasse in Frankfurt, the Gestapo headquarters, one day after Wolfgang\u2018s 17th birthday, on so-called \u00bbown business\u00ab. She was arrested in February 1943, first taken to the police prison \u00bbKlapperfeld\u00ab and then deported to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, where she allegedly died of \u00bbgeneral physical weakness\u00ab in July 1943.Wolfgang Breckheimer had remained outside the prison for days, always whistling the secret family whistle, hoping to receive a sign of life from his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time and again, the group of \u00bbEdelweiss Pirates\u00ab to which Wolfgang Breckheimer belonged and the HJ patrols had minor confrontations. In the winter of 1944, the house at Raiffeisenstra\u00dfe 25 was hit by an aerial bomb. Wolfgang Breckheimer survived in the cellar. In January of the following year (1945), he was called up as a \u00bbJewish half-breed of the first degree\u00ab to the \u00bbOrganisation Todt\u00ab (The Organisation Todt (OT) was a uniformed technical unit that organised and supervised the use of \u00bbforeign workers\u00ab, prisoners or also \u00bbhalf-breeds\u00ab and \u00bbVersippten\u00ab during the war) and later deported to Osterode in the Harz mountains for forced labour. There he helped the Lappe brothers escape from the camp. Because of this he was transferred to Halberstadt prison. There he experienced liberation by American troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolfgang Breckheimer became involved in the FDJ after the war. There he also met his future wife Ria Breckheimer. In the first years after the war, he was once again affected by state repression and was imprisoned in the \u00bbKlapperfeld\u00ab detention centre on the R\u00f6mer during a demonstration against the FRG\u2018s handling of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolfgang Breckheimer died after a long and serious illness on. 12 June 2011. Until the end, he was active as a contemporary witness, committed to coming to terms with the history of National Socialism and the fight against today\u2018s neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bbI want to report from my life and the life of my parents and the entanglement with the events and traditions of the struggling working class under fascism.\u00ab Wolfgang Breckheimer Subtitles in German and English can be activated in the video at the bottom right via the video player settings.Interview: History working group of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"parent":670,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-855","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions\/1192"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klapperfeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}