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John Friedrich Karl Rittmeister (21 August 1898–13 May 1943), often also abbreviated John F. Rittmeister, was a German neurologist, psychoanalyst and resistance fighter against Nazism. Rittmeister was a humanist and socialist who based his opposition to the Nazi state on moral grounds.
RITTMEISTER, JOHN FRIEDRICH KARL (1898-1943) John Rittmeister, a German neurologist and psychoanalyst, was born in Hamburg on August 21, 1898, and was guillotined in Plötzensee prison, outside Berlin, on May 13, 1943.
John Karl Friedrich Rittmeister, oft auch abgekürzt John F. Rittmeister, war ein deutscher Nervenarzt, Psychoanalytiker und Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
John Rittmeister and his wife Eva were arrested on September 26, 1942. He was sentenced to death on February 12, 1943, and murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on May 13, 1943. Eva Rittmeister was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and released in April 1945.
John Rittmeister was a German neurologist (1898-1943) who was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee because of his decision to support organized political resistance against National Socialism.
- Ch. Teller
- 2013
Sep 6, 2013 · John Rittmeister war ein deutscher Nervenarzt (1898–1943), der wegen seiner Entscheidung für den organisierten politischen Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Berlin-Plötzensee hingerichtet wurde.
Rittmeister has been used in just such a way for conscious political purposes by groups of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in both postwar German states. Although psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts shared in the gradual recapturing of memory after 1945 -through the repression charac-
