Albert Schettkat

Albert Schettkat (born August 2, 1902 in Bartscheiten near Neukirch , East Prussia ; † February 26, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German politician ( KPD ), trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

Schettkat, son of a family of farm workers , worked as a farm worker in Rokaiten himself. In 1923 he joined the Communist Youth of Germany and in July 1924 became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Schettkat initially exercised honorary functions, for example, he was literary chairman or organizational and political director of the KPD local group in Rokaiten. In 1928 he was appointed to the KPD district leadership East Prussia and in June 1929 on the XII. Party congress in Berlin elected as a candidate for the Central Committee (ZK) of the KPD.

Schettkat became a full-time functionary of the revolutionary trade union opposition for the agricultural workers' movement. In November 1929 he was elected to the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia for the Niederung district. In August 1930 he took part in the Fifth World Congress of the Red Trade Union International in Moscow . From June to August 1931 Schettkat attended a course at the Reichsparteischule "Rosa Luxemburg" of the KPD in Fichtenau near Berlin . In 1932, the Central Committee of the KPD appointed him as head of organization for the East Prussia district. In April 1932 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for constituency 1 East Prussia.

In May 1933, Schettkat fled to Czechoslovakia . In early 1935, however, he returned illegally to Berlin as an instructor for the Central Committee. He was arrested on January 18, 1935 and sentenced to five years in prison in October 1935 . Schettkat was then taken to the Börgermoor , Sachsenhausen concentration camps and finally to Bergen-Belsen. Schettkat was murdered there on February 26, 1945.

Honors

• Schettkatstrasse (formerly Stolbergstrasse ) in Berlin-Rahnsdorf has been named after him since May 31, 1951 .

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5189-0 , p. 102.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 7 [S]. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-357-9 , p. 57.
• Schettkat, Albert . 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 .
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933 . Münster 2012, p. 50.

Web links

• Schettkatstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )