Ernst Volkmann at the War Memorial Bregenz

Ernst Volkmann (1902-1941) settled in Bregenz in 1927 as a guitar maker and caretaker. He repeatedly failed to comply with the call-up for military service, and was finally conscripted in 1941, but refused to take the Führer oath, as his religious beliefs were incompatible with National Socialism. He was sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht in Berlin and was executed on 9.8.1941 in Brandenburg-Görden. Ernst Volkmann is erroneously listed on the Landeskriegerdenkmal as having fallen in Berlin in 1941.