Richard Aßmann (works council chairman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Aßmann (works council chairman)

district leader of the "Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold" SPD organization

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1875

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 20-Jun-1933

Profession: politician, trade unionist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Richard Aßmann (16 December 1875 – 21 June 1933) became a Works Council Chairman ("Betriebsratsvorsitzender") with the AOK (national Health Insurance provider) in Berlin.
He also involved himself in politics and was a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / SPD).On 20 June 1933 he was forcibly removed from a tram by Nazi paramilitaries and taken away.
His body was found, badly degraded, in a sack in the Dahme (river) on 11 July 1933.
His daughter, Hilde Aßmann, was required to identify the body, which she was able to do because she recognised his wrist-watch.
Although the precise date of his death was never established, Richard Aßmann is generally seen as the first of an estimated 500 victims - at least 23 of whom were murdered while in detention and subsequently identified - of Köpenick's week of bloodshed ("die Köpenicker Blutwoche"), one of the first recorded mass-atrocities carried out by the Nazis after they took power in January 1933.