Hermann Frieb (11.12.1909 Mauerkirchen – 12.8.1943 Munich-Stadelheim Prison)

Hermann Frieb, Austrian by birth, moved to Munich in 1928, where he studied economics and became a member of the Socialist Party of Germany (SPD). At the university, he was president of the Socialist Students' Association. Starting in 1933, he maintained a discussion group with party friends, which also produced illegal material, but was discovered by the Gestapo. Expelled from Germany, Frieb continued his studies in Vienna and Prague, where he met Waldemar von Knoeringen, border secretary of the SoPaDe and head of the 'internal service' of the socialist resistance organization Begin Anew.

In 1935, Frieb was able to return to Munich and became the head of the Munich branch of the organization, which collaborated particularly closely with the Augsburg group led by Bebo Wager. Numerous conspiratorial meetings were held in Frieb's vacation home on Lake Ammersee, where the group wanted to prepare for what they believed would be the coming revolution. In August, Frieb was drafted into the Wehrmacht and Wager took over the entire leadership of the organization in southern Bavaria. Starting in February 1942, all the Begin Anew groups were arrested - around 200 people in total. Frieb was condemned to death by the People's Court on May 27, 1943 on charges of "preparation of high treason" and executed on August 12, 1943 in Stadelheim.