Alfred Bergmann (resistance fighter)

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Stumbling block in front of the house, Uhlandstrasse 194 A, in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Alfred Bergmann was arrested on April 20, 1940; he is said to have been murdered a few days later

Alfred Bergmann (born October 21 or April 4, 1910 in Berlin ; † end of April 1940 there ) was a German communist, doctor and victim of National Socialism .

Alfred Bergmann was the fifth of eight children of Rabbi Judah Bergmann . After elementary school he attended the Mommsen grammar school from 1919 to 1928 . He was a member of the Socialist Student Union and since 1927 a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) . In early 1929 he joined the Communist Party opposition (KPD-O) . After taking up medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in 1929 , he became head of the KPD-O student group in Berlin. In 1930 he passed the Physikum . Alfred Bergmann became a member of the Association of Socialist Doctors , the General Association of Workers in Public Enterprises and the Movement of People and Goods, and worked as a teacher in the Workers 'Samaritan Association and in the Workers' Abstinence Association . In the university he was active in the organization of the common resistance against the Nazi terror, which increased from 1929 on. On March 8, 1933, he was arrested in his parents' apartment for resisting the Nazi regime. In April 1933 he was sent to the Papenburg moor camp or to the Esterwegen concentration camp , from which he was released in December 1933 through the contacts of his brother Arthur. After his release from the concentration camp, his father, mother and youngest sister, who were still living alone in the apartment, were already on their way to Palestine . You left Berlin in January 1934.

Alfred Bergmann went via France to Switzerland , from where he kept in contact with the Stuttgart KPD-O group. Together with his partner Claire Schmalz, he organized the KPD-O's border work. After completing his studies at the Bürgerspital Basel with a doctorate under Rudolf Staehelin , he worked as a doctor in several Swiss hospitals, each with a limited work permit. He was only allowed to accept a doctor's position where no Swiss doctor applied. His job applications encountered increasing difficulties on the part of the authorizing authority, the foreigners commissioner Dr. Rothermund in the canton of Aargau; the latter demanded that he leave the country, although the Swiss Medical Organization supported his applications in early 1940 in its statements due to the shortage of doctors (as a result of the mobilization of local doctors) and the “excellent professional achievements”. He applied for entry in many countries, but received only rejections everywhere.

After he did not follow the police instructions, he was illegally deported by the Aargau canton police following a tip from the Aargau government councilor Rudolf Siegrist . He was arrested at work on April 20, 1940 and handed over to waiting German border authorities on the bridge between Koblenz AG (Switzerland) and Waldshut (Germany). Bergmann was immediately arrested and taken to Berlin. A few days later, Alfred Bergmann was murdered there without trial. Since 2006, a stumbling block has been remembering him in his former apartment at Uhlandstrasse 194 A in Berlin .

Alfred Bergmann is on the one hand the older brother of Josef and Theodor Bergmann and on the other hand the younger brother of Ernst David Bergmann .

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  1. ^ Theodor Bergmann, companions
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist, medic and victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH between April 20, 1940 and April 30, 1940
Place of death Berlin