DRAFD
| Association of Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. V. (DRAFD) |
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| Establishment date: | May 26, 1992 |
| Dissolution date: | April 3, 2011 |
| Seat : | Berlin |
| Website: | www.drafd.org |
DRAFD ( Association of Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the movement "Free Germany" eV ) was an association that was the first all-German organization of anti-fascists in Frankfurt am Main on May 26, 1992 by members of the working group of armed fighters in the ranks of the anti-Hitler coalition and the partisan associations of the GDR and the interest group of former German resistance fighters in the countries occupied by fascism (IEDW).
Members of the association were mainly former fighters in the Resistance , people who served as Germans in the Second World War in the Red Army or the British armed forces , former Spain fighters of the International Brigades and members of the National Committee for Free Germany or the Federation of German Officers and descendants of this Group of people.
The association had around 250 members in 1995 and was considered obsolete , so that a few years later the number of members "dropped dramatically." Therefore, on April 1, 2011, a merger with the Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifascists (VVN – BdA) completed.
Members of the DRAFD continue to operate the DRAFD Wiki in order to further expand the biographical collection of Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the Free Germany Movement . So far, over 1,600 biographies can be viewed online.
The Wiki is based on the Biographical Lexicon Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement
Known members
- Gottfried Hamacher (1916–2006), co-founder of DRAFD, published with the association
- Ernst Melis (1909–2007), chairman of the DRAFD from 1990 to 2007
- Bernt von Kügelgen (1914–2002), worked for DRAFD since 1992.
- Stefan Doernberg (1924–2010) has been the chairman of DRAFD since November 2008
- Peter Gingold (1916–2006), former Resistance fighter
- Kurt Hälker (1922–2010), former naval radio operator in Paris, Resistance fighter
- Gerhard Leo (1923–2009), journalist, former Resistance fighter, Knight of the Legion of Honor, published with the association
- Moritz Mebel (1923), urologist, helped set up kidney transplant centers in the GDR ; Emigrant. Mebel began the “way back” in 1941 as a prisoner-of-war soldier (he reported as a volunteer) on the Volokolamsker Chaussee, which was literarily famous by Alexander Bek, 30 km from Moscow
- Hans Heisel (1922–2012) former telex chief mate at the Naval Staff in Paris, Resistance fighter
- Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel (1921–2007), former German fighter pilot, grandson of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , Vice President and Front Representative of the National Committee for Free Germany
literature
- Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Volume 2., Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-12299-7 .
- Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner and Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement, short biographies. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X ( online at rosalux.de , PDF; 894 kB).
Web links
- Official website does not work
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the establishment of the IEDW on May 6, 1972 in Frankfurt / Main
- ↑ 15 years of DRAFD conversation with Ernst Melis 2007 about the development of DRAFD (accessed on July 11, 2015)
- ↑ a b Lit. Garleff, page 240
- ↑ DRAFD merger with VVN-BdA
- ↑ Merger with DRAFD to VVN – BdA
- ↑ DRAFD-Wiki at www.drafd.de
- ↑ Main page DRAFD-Wiki
- ↑ Gottfried Hamacher . With the assistance of André Lohmar: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement (PDF; 894 kB) Short biographies, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. Volume 53. ISBN 3-320-02941-X
- ↑ Stefan Doernberg new chairman of DRAFD e. V. (accessed on July 12, 2015)
- ↑ Germans in the French Resistance - A Way to Europe
- ^ Lieutenant Guard Moritz Mebel on his way in the Red Army from Moscow to Dresden