Adolf Mans
Adolf Mans (born March 6, 1901 in Erfurt ; † 1972 ) was a German political prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp and employee of the National Memorial (NMG) Buchenwald .
Life dates
Mans came to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1937 as a protective prisoner with prisoner number 925, where he was interned until November 12, 1940. As a foreman in the bricklayer column under Kapo Robert Siewert , he campaigned for Jewish fellow prisoners. During the Second World War he fought in the ranks of the Greek partisan movement.
After the liberation from Nazi rule in 1945, he led groups of visitors to the Buchenwald National Memorial. Mans was an Erfurt city councilor.
literature
- Elischewa German: We still want to say yes to life , Verlag Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-4103-5 , p. 207.
Web links
- Zentralfriedhof Erfurt - VdN-Ehrenhain (accessed on June 13, 2017).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Manolis Glezos! . In: Neues Deutschland , February 19, 1959, p. 7.
- ^ Heinz Koch / Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 , Weimar 2010, p. 186, ISBN 3-935275-14-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mans, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political concentration camp inmate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1972 |