Ella Trebe
Ella Gertrud Trebe , b. Beyer (born November 6, 1902 in Berlin ; † August 11, 1943 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
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Ella Beyer was the daughter of the worker Otto Beyer and the Polish-born Pauline Barcikowska - a laundress and grew up in one of the backyards of Weddings . She worked as a metal worker at the Lewin company and as a winder at the AEG plant in the Gesundbrunnen district of Berlin , where she also lived. Her political commitment began in 1922 when she joined the German Metal Workers' Association (DMV). In 1926 she joined the KPD . In 1929 she was elected to the district council of her home district. She married her companion Paul Trebe. From 1929/30 she supported the strategy of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO). In 1930/31 Trebe was a women's leader on the board of the Union of Metalworkers in Berlin (EVMB).
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Ella Trebe joined the "North Security Apparatus" of the KPD's underground district leadership. At the beginning of the Second World War he was in close contact with Wilhelm Guddorf and Erwin Reisler . As a courier for the Rote Kapelle , she maintained contact with other communist groups at home and abroad. Even after the waves of arrests against this resistance organization, she continued her resistance. In the spring of 1943 she found accommodation and contacts for the Spanish fighter Ernst Beuthke for his attempt to reestablish the connections that had been interrupted by the arrests in 1942 and to help bring together the Berlin resistance fighters.
Due to the carelessness of a parachutist who was hiding, Ella Trebe and other helpers were exposed in 1943, along with her family and other members of the group, arrested on charges of enemy espionage and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . A short time later, she was shot there without trial. Together with Ella Trebe, Ernst Beutke, his parents and brothers and 30 other resistance fighters were also murdered.
Honors
- After the end of the war, a memorial stone was erected in memory of Trebe on Berlin's Nettelbeckplatz , but it was removed in the 1950s.
- Since 2006, one of the new streets on the ULAP site at Berlin Central Station has been called Ella-Trebe-Straße.
- In September 2009, a stumbling block was laid in front of her former home .
literature
- Anja Hennig, Stefan Heinz : Trebe, Ella, b. Beyer (biography) . In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 .
- Luise Kraushaar et al: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters . tape 2 . Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 360 ff .
Web links
- Biography of Stefan Heinz on stolpersteine-berlin.de
- Ella Trebe in the Bezirkslexikon on berlin.de ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- The smashing of the unions in 1933, biographies: Ella Trebe , German Trade Union Confederation , 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Birth register StA Berlin XIIIb No. 1787/1902 .
- ↑ Ella-Trebe-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trebe, Ella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trebe, Ella Gertrud (full name); Beyer, Ella (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1943 |
| Place of death | Sachsenhausen concentration camp |