Martin Gauger

Gotthard Martin Gauger (August 4, 1905 Elberfeld – July 15, 1941 Pirna) was a German jurist and pacifist from Wuppertal, Rhenish Prussia.

He was a member of the Kreisau Circle which sought to overthrow the Nazi regime in Germany during the Second World War.

In 1934, as a lawyer in the office of the public prosecutor in München-Gladbach, Gauger refused to take the required oath of allegiance to Hitler and resigned from the civil service.

In a subsequent post as legal advisor to the Bekennende Kirche (confessing church) he devoted himself to the resistance movement.

On 12 June, he was brought to Buchenwald concentration camp; on 14 July 1941 he was sent to Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre, where he was murdered.