Erich Ziemer

Erich Ziemer (* October 18, 1906 in Berlin, † October 1937 in Spain) was a human being who with Erich Mielke in 1931 commited the police murders Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck.
Like Erich Mielke, Ziemer had been a member of the Communist Party's “party self-protection” since 1929. When the party self-protection was looking for volunteers in 1931 to take over the murder of the captain of the police force, Paul Anlauf, he and Erich Mielke agreed to do so. On the evening of August 9th, near the Babylon, they met three police officers, Anlauf (called by them as Pig Face), Frank Lenck (Skull) and Richard Willig. They followed them and shot them shortly afterwards. Anlauf and Lenck died at the Platz, Willig survived injured.
With the help of the KPD, the two Erichs fled to Moscow the next day. Ziemer stayed there until 1936 when he went to Spain to defend the republic in the Spanish Civil War. In October 1937 he was fatally injured during a battle.
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