Fritz Gerlich

Fritz Gerlich
Gerlich in 1929
Born
Carl Albert Fritz Michael Gerlich

(1883-02-15)15 February 1883
Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died30 June 1934(1934-06-30) (aged 51)
Dachau concentration camp, Bavaria, Nazi Germany
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
OccupationsJournalist, historian
Known forBeing killed during the Night of the Long Knives
SpouseSophie Botzenhart (1920)

Carl Albert Fritz Michael Gerlich (15 February 1883 – 30 June 1934) was a German journalist and historian, and one of the leading journalistic resistors of Adolf Hitler. He was arrested and later killed and cremated at the Dachau concentration camp.

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