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Richard Friedländer

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[[File:FRIEDLÄNDER 1936.jpg|thumb|Richard Friedländer (deceased 1938 at KZ Buchenwald), stepfather of Magda Goebbels]]
Richard Friedländer (born February 15, 1881 in Berlin, † February 18, 1939 [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald Concentration Camp]] <ref>Totenbuch KZ Buchenwald [http://totenbuch.buchenwald.de/names/details/person/964/ref/recherche]</ref>) was a German Jewish merchant, stepfather of [[Magda Goebbels]], prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and victim of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]].

== Life ==

Friedländer was born in a wealthy Jewish Berlin merchant family. After attending elementary school and a junior high school, he learned the profession of a merchant and later worked as an employee in [[Brussels]]. In 1908 he married Auguste Behrend, divorced Ritschel, who brought her single-born child Magda into the marriage. Friedländer adopted the girl so that she got his name. Magda, however, had not been educated by the mother, but by Belgian nuns of the Order of the [[Ursulines]] of [[Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School|Virgo Fidelis]], which gave her a "Catholic, musically and foreign language excellent education" <ref>Magda Goebbels, Gefährtin des Bösen In: Der Spiegel Vol. 39, 24. September 2001 [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-20184307.html]</ref>.

When Magda Friedländer married for the first time in 1921, the future husband, industrialist [[Günther Quandt|Günter Quandt]], demanded that she should drop her adoption-acquired Jewish name, which did not fit into a Protestant family. As a result, her birth father, her mother's divorced first husband, gave her the surname "Ritschel", so that there was nothing in the way of this marriage.

After the marriage was divorced in 1929, she married in 1931 the Berlin [[Nazi Party|NSDAP]] [[Gauleiter]] and later leader of the [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda]], [[Joseph Goebbels]].

Since the wedding with Quandt, Magda had avoided any contact with her former nominal father Richard Friedländer. He was now impoverished and had to earn his living with low jobs (e.g. as a waiter). On June 15, 1938, he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp as part of the so-called [[:de:Juni-Aktion|June action]] "[[:de:Aktion_„Arbeitsscheu_Reich“|Arbeitsscheu Reich]]". Already been injured, he had to do hard work in the quarry, which in connection with the catastrophic living conditions led to his death. The death certificate of the camp doctor noted as a cause of death the frequently used and therefore little on the actual reasons expressing formula "heart muscle deterioration in pneumonia" <ref>Christian Faludi: Die „Juni-Aktion“ 1938. Eine Dokumentation zur Radikalisierung der Judenverfolgung, Frankfurt am Main/New York 2013, S. 92. [https://books.google.de/books?id=Rofk6Za152EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Christian+Faludi:+Die+%E2%80%9EJuni-Aktion%E2%80%9C+1938&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgmMish7jfAhUHalAKHT9GDm4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Christian%20Faludi%3A%20Die%20%E2%80%9EJuni-Aktion%E2%80%9C%201938&f=false]</ref>. His urn was delivered to the relatives by cash on delivery, against payment of 93 Reichsmark, to Berlin. Finally he was buried in the [[Weißensee cemetery|Jewish Cemetery Berlin-Weissensee]].

== Literature ==

* ''Das tödliche Schweigen der Magda Goebbels''. In: Guido Knopp: ''History. Geheimnisse des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' C. Bertelsmann, München 2002, <nowiki>ISBN 3-570-00665-4</nowiki>, S. 65 [http://bit.ly/2EN4xCK]

* Wolfgang Ayaß: "''Asoziale“ im Nationalsozialismus''. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91704-7

* Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: ''Masseneinweisungen in Konzentrationslager. Aktion „Arbeitsscheu Reich“, Novemberpogrom, Aktion „Gewitter“''. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Hrsg.): ''Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager.'' Band 1: ''Die Organisation des Terrors.'' C.H. Beck, München 2005, <nowiki>ISBN 3-406-52961-5</nowiki>, S. 156–164.

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