Paul Gesche
Paul Gesche (born June 12, 1907 in Berlin , † August 21, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Gesche attended the community school, then worked as an office worker and later started an apprenticeship as a carpenter. After completing his training as a stage cabinet maker, Gesche joined the SAJ in 1924 . He then wandered through Germany for two years. In 1931 he joined the KPD . From 1932 he was active in the freethinkers association. In October 1932 he married Emma Kochan. Their son Klaus was born in April 1938.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Gesche took part in the resistance. He was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to one year in prison on January 19, 1935 for “preparing for high treason”. After his release he was one of Robert Uhrig's closest collaborators and worked mainly in the north of Berlin.
Gesche followed the party's instructions to join associations and to work politically among the members in them. He joined the sailing club "Wiking". Thanks to his commitment, he was elected chairman of the club in 1941. He used his position to produce several numbers of the illegal pamphlet Information Service on the sports club's puller.
On February 10, 1942, Gesche was arrested by the Gestapo . He was taken to the judicial prison in Landsberg an der Warthe , and later to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . On June 6, 1944, he was sentenced to death by the 5th Senate of the “ People's Court ” as a member of the management of the Berlin KPD organization “for preparing to commit high treason ” . Gesche was executed in the Brandenburg-Görden prison .
Honors
A street in Berlin-Lichtenberg has been named after him since 1976 . Until the beginning of the 1990s, the children's and youth sports school in Berlin-Köpenick (today's Flatow Oberschule) bore his name.
literature
- Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 1. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 309-311.
- Piero Malvezzi, Giovanni Pirelli (eds.): Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza europea . Einaudi, Turin 1966, p. 397.
Web links
- Short biography of Paul Gesche on the website of the Museum Lichtenberg.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul-Gesche-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gesche, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1944 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg |