Adam Pfeifer

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Adam Pfeifer from Offenbach-Bieber
Stumbling block for Adam Pfeifer in Philipp-Reis-Straße in Offenbach-Bieber

Adam Pfeifer (born April 25, 1902 in Bieber ; † 1944 or 1945 ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Live and act

Adam Pfeifer, who came from a social democratic family, was a trained typesetter and worked for the Frankfurt Stempel AG . As an active trade unionist and works council chairman, he vigorously advocated the interests of his colleagues in the company.

He was a member of the Rad- und Kraftfahrerbund Solidarity . The association with an explicitly political program was close to the SPD and was part of the workers' sports movement . The Rad- und Kraftfahrerbund was banned by the Nazis in 1933. Adam Pfeifer was involved in the SPD and in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , the protective association of the Weimar Republic .

Adam Pfeifer was a resistance fighter from the very beginning. He and his brother Ludwig Pfeifer belonged as intellectuals to a resistance cell in the then independent Bieber . Both were in close contact with other social democratic resistance groups against the Nazi regime in Offenbach am Main around Karl Appelmann , Hans Stoffers and Valentin Unkelbach as well as Georg Bätz and Karl Hoffmann in Bürgel .

The main aim was to build a network of underground resistance groups and to provide the population with information material in order to strengthen their resistance against Hitler. Due to his political activities in the resistance, he was abducted by the National Socialists together with his brother Ludwig Pfeifer to the Osthofen concentration camp near Worms in the spring of 1933 . In 1936 the Gestapo arrested him again while distributing leaflets. He was charged with high treason. The higher regional court in Darmstadt sentenced him to two years in prison. As a result, he was classified as unworthy of defense. Nevertheless, he was forcibly recruited by the Wehrmacht in 1943 and drafted into the 999 Penal Battalion . He received short training in the 6th Artillery Training Battery in Heuberg in the Swabian Alb . A Wehrmacht ticket from September 1943 is his last sign of life. Presumably he was killed in action in Africa in January 1945. From then on, he was considered missing. He was pronounced dead on November 10, 1945. A stumbling block in Philipp-Reis-Straße in Offenbach-Bieber reminds of Adam Pfeifer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stumbling block for Hans Stoffers. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stumbling block for Valentin Unkelbach. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Piper, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaver
DATE OF DEATH 1944 or 1945