Adolf Schröder (resistance fighter)

Adolf Schröder (born January 6, 1885 , † January 12 or January 18, 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a German social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Schröder came from simple social conditions. After attending primary school, he learned the trade of a locksmith . He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was active against the emergence of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he adhered to his anti-fascist stance and operated illegally . After the beginning of the Second World War and the beginning of the deployment of foreign forced laborers , he found a connection to the resistance group Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen , which he supported in their work to organize aid and to educate the workers politically . When the Gestapo it was aware, he was arrested and by a court for "preparation for high treason " to a custodial sentence convicted. He was then taken to Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died on January 18, 1945.

Honor

• On one of the three memorial steles in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , Adolf Schröder is remembered as a victim of the Nazi state: right stele, plate 18.
• In front of his last residential address at Bogenstrasse 23 in Eimsbüttel , the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in his memory.

literature

• Walter Tomin : For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to the information on the stumbling block
2. ↑ Memorial Book of Persecuted Social Democrats in Hamburg ( Memento of December 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 488 kB) Retrieved September 8, 2011
3. ↑ http://www.spd-hamburg.de/cms/fileadmin/AvS/download/Gedenkliste_fuer_die_verfolten_ermordeten_Sozialdemokrats.pdf (link not available)
4. ↑ www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de Retrieved September 8, 2011