Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim

Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim (April 27, 1906 – January 6, 2006) was a German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality under Germany's now-repealed Paragraph 175.

Von Groszheim trained as a wholesale merchant and was already regularly active in the gay scene in his hometown in the 1920s.

In January 1937 Von Groszheim was one of 230 men arrested in Lübeck on suspicion of homosexuality by the SS and was imprisoned for around ten months on the basis of Section 175, during which he had to wear a badge emblazoned with a capital A, for Arschficker ("arse-fucker"):They beat us to a pulp.

With his death in 2006, it was assumed that the last homosexual concentration camp survivor in Germany had died, until Rudolf Brazda was found.

[2] Since August 19, 2021, a memorial stone has commemorated Friedrich Paul von Groszheim in front of his house at Kaiserallee 11 in Lübeck-Travemünde.