Adolf Rembte

Adolf Rembte (born July 21, 1902 in Kirchsteinbek ; † November 4, 1937 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Rembte learned the trade of baker . In early 1919 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). In 1922 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). As a participant in Hamburg rising he was after prolonged custody on March 23, 1925 for "complicity in treason " to two and a half years imprisonment convicted. At the beginning of 1926 he was initially a trainee, then an editor at the Hamburger Volkszeitung . In 1927 Rembte was envisaged by the KPD as a full-time party functionary and sent to the International Lenin School in Moscow for professional training as a functionary , which he attended from November 1927 to spring 1930 as a student . Then in the fall of 1930 he visited the Moscow Institute for History and Law for a few weeks. In 1930 Rembte returned to Germany, where he took on a number of functions in the KPD over the next few years: In the summer of 1931, he became a course instructor at the KPD's Reichsparteischule "Rosa Luxemburg" in Fichtenau near Berlin . In August 1931 Rembte was arrested in Stuttgart . In 1932 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Reichsgericht for preparing for high treason, but was released early after the amnesty of December 1932.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Rembte took part in the illegal communist resistance. Rembte met several times with the Politburo member Hermann Schubert , who sent him to Halle - Merseburg as a Polleiter . From June to November 1933, under the code name "Rudolf", he was senior advisor to the local district management. In December 1933 he went to Düsseldorf and was here under the code name "Poser" or "Oscar" Polleiter of the illegal KPD district leadership of the Lower Rhine . From May 1934, Rembte had been a member of Wilhelm Kox 's illegal state leadership in Berlin, which at that time formed the party's highest domestic authority in Germany. In addition to Rembte, Otto Wahls and Philipp Daub and Paul Merker were also members at that time . At the end of 1934 Rembte was sent to Moscow. In February 1935 he traveled from Moscow to Prague . Here he met with Robert Stamm and Herbert Wehner every day to prepare the new regional management in Berlin. Rembte arrived in Berlin on March 2, 1935. He was arrested here at a conspiratorial meeting on March 27, 1935 together with Käthe Lübeck , Robert Stamm and Max Maddalena (Wehner had not started the trip).

After a brief detention in the Gestapo house prison , Rembte spent two years on remand in Moabit Prison. On June 4, 1937, Rembte, Stamm and Maddalena were charged with Walter Griesbach and Käthe Lübeck before the People's Court for preparing a treasonable enterprise. On June 14, the accused were found guilty: Rembte and Stamm were sentenced to death, Maddalena to life imprisonment , Griesbach and Lübeck to twelve years each. The verdicts provoked protests abroad: for example, appeals in newspapers such as the Times , News Chronicle and Daily Herald called for the verdict to be overturned, but this had no effect: Rembte and Stamm were tried on November 4, 1937 in the courtyard of the Plötzensee prison decapitate executed .

Today, a stumbling block in front of Oberschleems 29 in Hamburg reminds of Rembte.

literature

• Rembte, Adolf . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6

Web links

• Short biography of Rembtes on the “Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg” page.