Reinhold Meyer

Reinhold Meyer was a friend of Heinz Kucharski and Margaretha Rothe and belonged to that Hamburg circle of friends who received and discussed the flyers of the White Rose which Traute Lafrenz brought to Hamburg.

Meyer was seriously ill, having had a severe bone marrow inflammation when he was 12, and therefore was not able to enter the Hitler Youth. However, despite his illness, he was able to pass his Abitur, and he started studying philosophy at University.

His family owned a bookstore by the name of "Agentur des Rauen Hauses". He began working there in 1940, and made his way up to a junior manager's position. The bookstore became a place that the members of the Hamburg group would come to meet.

Meyer was arrested on 19 Dezember 1943 on the grounds of treasonous activities. He was put into prison, although because of his illness, he wasn't healthy enough to be held. His family wasn't able to find out what had happened to him until the middle of January 1944. He was held in solitary confinement until the middle of 1944. In the summer of 1944, he was sent to the prison Neugamme for some weeks. He died in Gestapo custody in Fuhlsbüttel on 12 November 1944.

Reinhold Meyer had a younger brother who died at the battle of Stalingrad in 1943.