Willi Kreikemeyer

Willi Kreikemeyer (* 1894, † unknown, probably 1950) was a German labourer and a communist. From 1941 he and his wife Marthe Kreikemeyer were close assistants of Noel Field who supported German anti-Nazi refugees in France and Switzerland.

In 1949 Kreikemeyer became Director General of the East German railway company Deutsche Reichsbahn.

When in 1950 the slandering campaign against Noel Field started, Kreikemeyer was arrested. Some propaganda articles were published in East German Newspapers, a show trial against him was being prepared, but never took place. His wife eventually flew to her home country France, but she never stopped writing letters to GDR authorities, inquiring about her husband's destiny. Only in 1957 she was told that Willi Kreikemeyer had died a few days after his imprisonment. Erich Mielke,later Head of the East German Secret Service, had been responsible for the detainee. In a confidential document he claimed that Kreikemeyer had committed suicide in his prison cell on 31th August 1950. Nowadays it's known that Kreikemeyer named Mielke as one of the persons supported by Noel Field. That Kreikemeyer was murdered on behalf of Mielke is therefore more likely than the suicide story.

References

• Template:De icon Wolfgang Kießling Leistner ist Mielke. Schatten einer gefälschten Biographie Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-8036-0