Adolf Mahlmann

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Adolf Mahlmann (born August 6, 1876 in Bielefeld , † February 28, 1945 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life and work

Mahlmann came from a Westphalian family. After attending primary school, he learned the profession of painter and spent two to three years rolling through Germany, Switzerland , Austria , Italy and France ; Already active in social democratic and trade union activities during the journey. In 1908 he married Helene Mahlmann, b. Grashorn (1878–1959), son Heinrich was born in 1911. Adolf Mahlmann joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1917 he became a member of the USPD , then the Spartakusbund . He was a member of the workers and soldiers council in Essen . In search of work he went to Hamburg and was active against the emerging fascism during the Weimar Republic . Mahlmann was one of the founders of the Hamburg KPD and took part in the Hamburg uprising in 1923 . As a result, he lost his job. In the following period he found only short-term wage work . From autumn 1919 to 1924 he was district leader of the KPD in Hamburg-Eppendorf .

Life in resistance

Communication from the SS of March 5, 1945 about the death of Adolf Mahlmann

He was arrested in 1933 and released after the amnesty in 1934. As a member of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen resistance group , he was involved in a leaflet campaign against the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 in the DAG Düneberg ( powder factory Düneberg ) and dynamite factory Krümmel in Geesthacht, where he worked temporarily. As a result, he was arrested again. Various sources suspect hostage-taking for his son Hans Mahle , who later became a founding member of the NKFD, as the real reason for the arrest . From 1941 to 1945 he was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel , Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps. Mahlmann died on February 28, 1945 in Buchenwald concentration camp, probably of typhus .

Honor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus-Dieter Krohn , Axel Schildt : Between the chairs? . Wallstein Verlag, 2002, ISBN 9783767214118 . on Google Books. Retrieved September 27, 2011
  2. ↑ Katharina Riege: Committed to a dream. Hans Mahle - a biography . Hamburg 2003, p. 11
  3. ^ Memorial of the Socialists ( Memento of July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mahlmann, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1945
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp