Draft:Gustav Wegert

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Gustav Wegert (1890–1959) is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph, with his arms crossed in front of his chest, conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.

1936, worker at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg not doing the Nazi Salute. (sz-photo)

Wegert was a metalworker at Blohm+Voss who was known to habitually refuse to perform the Nazi salute. Wegerts family have presented documentation of Wegert's employment at Blohm+Voss at that time as evidence. As well as family photographs that better resemble the man in the photograph from 1936, which advocates stronger for the man to be Gustav Wegert[1]

Gustav Wegert (to the left), (private picture Wegert family)
Gustav Wegert with his wife and son about 1948 (private picture Wegert family).

(However, the identity of the man in the photograph is not known with certainty. Another family claims that the man is August Landmesser (1910–1944). 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. Years after his death, his daughter suggested that he was the man in the famous photograph.)

  1. ^ Wegert, Wolfgang. "1936 - Just one refused the nazi salute".

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