Albert Goldenstedt

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Albert Goldenstedt (born January 10, 1912 in Varrel , † August 11, 1994 in Delmenhorst ) was a German civil engineer who made resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Early years

Goldenstedt was born into a large working-class family who were of Protestant faith. With the help of a scholarship from the Hackfeld'schen Marienschulfonds in Ganderkesee , he was able to start studying at the technical college in Oldenburg .

Resistance to National Socialism

Due to a Marxist speech that he had given to his fellow students and his communist agitation , he was arrested in the current exam and taken into “protective custody” for three months in Oldenburg. Despite constant surveillance by the Gestapo , Goldenstedt continued his resistance work. In Delmenhorst he had contacts with Wilhelm Schroers, Wilhelm Badenhop, August Broda and with the Social Democrats Leopold Klappstein and August Theis. Through Adolf Giehoff ( KPD ) he became acquainted with Bernhard Gellhaus, Franz Kardatz, Karl Lamken, Heinrich Bleckwehl and the state parliament and city council member Heinrich Wagner . From this point on, Goldenstedt collected contributions for the “ Rote Hilfe ” in consultation with Wagner . Subsequently, Goldenstedt tried to establish connections with the district leadership of the KPD in Bremen in Delmenhorst , Leer , Emden and Goldenstedt . There were two contacts with the communist Reichstag member Conrad Blenkle , as well as with Georg Buckendahl , Klaus Bücking , Walter Platte, Willy Winkler, Karl Klein, Valeska Lamken and others. a. He also made trips to France and Switzerland , where he was accommodated by German emigrants and by the Zurich merchant Hans Hug. From these trips he brought illegal writings such as “ Die Rote Fahne ” and the Brown Book with him. To avoid the threat of arrest, he went to Amsterdam at the end of 1936 , where he was imprisoned as an “illegal emigrant” from January 4 to April 23, 1937 after a conspiratorial meeting with communists and then deported to Belgium . There he continued to work in Flénu and around Brussels as a courier for the “Red Aid” and the KPD. In the Brussels district of Laeken , the “Red Aid” entrusted him with looking after the emigrants living there. During this time he made two trips to Bremen to distribute anti-fascist propaganda material. In 1938 his German citizenship was revoked. With the support of the “Red Aid” he was hired as an architect at the Eupen dam . In view of the threat of war, the Belgian state expelled him to the Netherlands in 1940 . Albert Goldenstedt spent two months in a camp on the island of Vlieland . After the occupation of the Netherlands, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the German Reich. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court sentenced him to a prison sentence of six years in Bremen-Oslebshausen for “preparing high treason” , but in 1943 he was called up as a soldier in the “notorious” Penal Division 999 (identification tag: 4./Fest.IB XIII / 999-4 Company Fortress Infantry Battalion XIII / 999). His deployment was on the Greek islands of Samos and Leros , where he continued his resistance. After being captured in the Egyptian camps 383,381 El Daaba, Camp 379 Quassassin (Egypt) and Wilton Park (Great Britain), he was demobilized on October 2, 1946 from a British release agency in Minden (Westphalia).

From 1933 to 1945 Albert Goldenstedt worked - without interruption - in the resistance. He was imprisoned for over four years in prisons or penitentiaries, served two years in the Penal Division 999 and was a year and a half in British captivity after liberation in 1945. From the beginning he worked with resistance fighters of different denominational and ideological backgrounds.

Post-war Germany

After his return to Delmenhorst , Albert Goldenstedt took his exams as civil engineering at the Oldenburg State Building School and passed his examination as a master builder at the Chamber of Crafts . In 1948 he founded a construction company in Düsternortstrasse in Delmenhorst and became a building contractor with a “social conscience”: he bought meadows and fields from farmers, which he brought into the development plan. As a developer, Goldenstedt sold the land to the builders at cost price. Many streets in Delmenhorst were built with “Goldenstedt houses”: Adalbert-Stifter-, Amalien-, Chemnitzer-, Elisen-, Hedwig-, Heinrich-Heine-, Hölderlin-, Jasmin-, Schlehen- and Urselstraße and the Welsehof. In Bremen the Delme road arose in Ganderkesee there were individual cultivations in the Herderstraße, the bow and Schlattenweg.

In the political field, Albert Goldenstedt was involved in the VVN Lower Saxony and was its chairman from 1975 to 1981. Intensive political contacts continued to exist with Bremen anti-fascists Wilhelm Meyer-Buer and Georg Gumpert .

In Hamburg, in Lohsepark in the Hafencity, a historical place will be created to commemorate the deported Jews, Sinti and Roma and the recruited “999ers” (“Hannoverscher Bahnhof” project - completion 2021).

literature

  • Werner Garbas, Frank Hethey (Ed.): Delmenhorster Lebensbilder II. New portraits of people in their relationships with the Delmenhorst , Delmenhorst and Berlin 2006, Aschenbeck and Holstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-939401-17-9 .
  • Paul Wilhelm Glöckner: Delmenhorst under the swastika. The Resistance , Volume II, Delmenhorst 1983.
  • Christiane Goldenstedt: Albert Goldenstedt - A Delmenhorster in the anti-fascist resistance . Oldenburg Studies Volume 89, Oldenburg 2019, Isensee Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7308-1552-6 .
  • Heinz Junge: Vlieland. Interneringskamp voor Duitse Tegenstanders van Hitler 1938–1940. The German edition: Vlieland. Internment camp for German opponents of Hitler 1938–1940, self-published by Heinz Junge.
  • Günter Heuzeroth, Johannes Petrich (Ed.): Under the tyranny of National Socialism 1933–1945. Represented at the events in Weser-Ems , Volume 1, Oldenburg 1989, ISBN 3-925713-02-6 .
  • Hans-Peter Klausch: The 999s. From Brigade “Z” to Afrika-Division 999: The probation battalions and their part in the anti-fascist resistance , Frankfurt am Main 1986, Röderberg Verlag, ISBN 3-87682-818-X .
  • Björn Gerhard Roth: Halt, Feldgendarmerie! The order troops of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945. A critical discussion, Norderstedt 2019, Books on demand, ISBN 978-3-7494-0023-2 .
  • Wilhelm Schroers: Resistance and Reconstruction in Delmenhorst. Memories of life , Delmenhorst 2018.
  • Study group for research and communication of the history of resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945 , Lower Saxony II., Hanover and Weser-Ems districts, Volume 3, Cologne 1986, Pahl-Rugenstein Publishing company.
  • Scientific journal of the German Resistance Study Group 1933–1945: Albert Goldenstedt. Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg. Crew - Collaboration - Resistance, No. 91 May 2020, Volume 45, p. 32, ISSN 0938-8672.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Political Archive of the Foreign Office (PA AA), RZ 214.R 99691 (Expatriations 29th List A – Z)
  2. ↑ Archives de l'Etat en Belgique A 241.677
  3. ^ Federal Archives in Berlin, indictment. The Attorney General at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, OJs25 / 40, March 5, 1941
  4. ^ Bremen State Archives, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, judgment. In the criminal case against the architect Albert Goldenstedt, O.Jg. 25/40, Reich Ministry June 15, 1941
personal data
SURNAME Goldenstedt, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building contractors and resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Varrel
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1994
Place of death Delmenhorst