August Dickmann (January 7, 1910 - September 15, 1939) was a Jehovah's Witness[1] and Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be executed for rejecting military service during World War II. He was one of many German Jehovah's Witnesses executed because of his religious beliefs during the Nazi regime.[2] Commanding the firing squad that executed Dickmann was SS officer Rudolf Höss, who later to become the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
