Willy Hielscher
Willy Hielscher (born October 18, 1904 in Berlin , † January 8, 1945 in Brandenburg ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Willy Hielscher was the son of a saddler. He learned the tailoring trade and became active in a workers' sports club and as a functionary of the KPD in Berlin.
During the Second World War he belonged to the resistance movement led by Anton Saefkow and Franz Jacob and was the leader of a German-Soviet resistance group. There were contacts in particular with the resistance groups of Soviet forced laborers at the Bergmann Works in Berlin-Wilhelmsruh , for whom he obtained leaflets and other informational materials and for whom his resistance group also provided essential additional food rations. Together with Arthur Magnor , he helped Georgi Wassiljew , one of the organizers of the resistance in several POW camps, to escape in the early summer of 1944.
In September 1944, Hielscher and Magnor were arrested by the Gestapo . Both of them were sentenced to death in November 1944.
literature
- Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945: Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, Volume 2, Page 492
- Helene Roggenbuck : Anti-Fascist Resistance - Liberation - New Beginning. The German-Soviet resistance group in Berlin-Wilhelmsruh 1942 to 1944. The anti-fascist-democratic new beginning in Berlin-Wilhelmsruh 1945 to 1948/49. Two research reports. , Publisher: Kulturbund der DDR 1986
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of History. Rütten & Loening, Berlin. 37: 1123 (1989).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hielscher, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1945 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg |