Adam Leis

Adam Leis (born July 16, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 17, 1942 in Frankfurt-Preungesheim ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

As a child, Adam Leis lived with his family in the old mill in the Rosental in Hallgarten . The building burned down in 1906, after which Eva Leis and her children moved to live with relatives in Frankfurt am Main . Adam Leis, a trained gardener, became a member of the KPD .

Leis lived in Frankfurt with his wife Anita from around the mid-1930s. Leis was imprisoned several times for communist activities. From 1939 he held political training courses disguised as Skat rounds . He assumed that the Second World War would end with a world revolution initiated by the Soviet Union .

A meeting of two illegal groups on Whit Monday 1941 in Georg Raulinger's apartment , in which Anton Breitinger was also involved, was Leis's undoing. The informer Alfred Stolze betrayed those involved; Like many others, Leis was sentenced to death for his work in the resistance . In 1958, his widow filed an unsuccessful criminal complaint against the former senior prosecutor Bruckhaus, who had demanded the death sentences.

Honors

• In Frankfurt a street was named after Adam Leis. A stumbling block for Adam Leis was laid at the parish church in Hallgarten .
• A bronze commemorative plaque has been on his home at Eßlinger Strasse 8 in Frankfurt since 1995, bearing a portrait of Leis and a short text with his biographical data.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} sf, .4. 18 more stumbling blocks laid In: Rheingau-Echo , May 15, 2014, accessed on October 1, 2015.
2. ↑ Häuslein, Otto from www.frankfurt.de accessed on Feb. 22, 2020.
3. ↑ Memorial plaque: Adam Leis ( Memento from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de, accessed on October 1, 2015.