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Memorial plaque at Ammonstrasse 43 in Chemnitz

Alfons Pech (born September 20, 1894 in Pabianice , Congress Poland ; † March 27, 1945 between Neukirchen and Chemnitz-Hutholz ) was a German- Russian resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was a member of the trade union resistance and was murdered by the Nazis in 1945.

Life

Alfons Pech was born in Pabianice in the then Russian-occupied part of Poland as the son of a hand weaver couple. His grandparents originally came from the Palatinate and had emigrated from Germany looking for work. Pech did not want to get into the family business and trained as a locksmith . Shortly before the First World War , he settled in Chemnitz . There he joined the German Metalworkers' Association and the SPD . At the beginning of the First World War he was interned as a citizen of Russia . In 1915 he was released and placed under police supervision. He found employment with the Vogt company in Chemnitz, where he worked until 1932.

In 1920 he took part in the general strike against the Kapp Putsch . In 1931 he switched from the SPD to the newly founded Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) and took part in efforts to form a united front of the workers against the NSDAP . At the height of the global economic crisis in 1932 he was dismissed and found work for a short time in Zittau , where he was also dismissed for political reasons. He then remained unemployed until 1939, when he was hired again as a locksmith.

In 1939 he began his resistance activities against the Nazi regime. Together with Fritz Ermer he founded a resistance group that tried to connect with other groups in Chemnitz. When the first Russian prisoners of war and forced laborers came to Chemnitz in 1941, he acted as an interpreter and tried to provide assistance. So he took forced laborers to his home and provided them with food.

On August 3, 1944, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Hohe Strasse prison. On March 5, 1945, he and six fellow prisoners managed to escape during a bombing raid. However, the Gestapo was able to arrest the fugitives again. Alfons Pech was shot together with his fellow prisoners on March 27, 1945 between Chemnitz-Hutholz and Neukirchen .

Memorial for the anti-fascists murdered in Hutholz

A monument by Hanns Diettrich was dedicated to him and the six other anti-fascists at Volgograder Allee 74 , which is still preserved today. It was built on the spot where the seven people were believed to have been shot. The former residence at Ammonstrasse 43 was given a memorial plaque. In addition, a street in Chemnitz was named after him.

literature

  • Willy Buschak : Solidarity with forced laborers: Alfons Pech from Chemnitz . In: Work in the smallest circle: Trade unions in the resistance against National Socialism . Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1206-9 , p. 404-406 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Willy Buschak: Solidarity with forced laborers: Alfons Pech from Chemnitz . In: Work in the smallest circle: Trade unions in the resistance against National Socialism . Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1206-9 , p. 404-406 .
  2. ↑ Chemnitz Official Gazette of August 25, 2010, page 10 (21st volume, 34th edition) (PDF; 1.4 MB) Official announcements on changes in the list of monuments of the city of Chemnitz , part 1
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony : List of monuments to Chemnitz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2013 ; Retrieved June 20, 2013 .


personal data
SURNAME Bad luck, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Pabianice , Congress Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1945
Place of death Chemnitz