Alfred Bursche

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Alfred Bursche

Alfred Bursche (born November 16, 1883 in Zgierz , † January 15, 1942 in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria ) was a Polish lawyer and a victim of Nazi persecution.

Alfred Bursche was a son of Ernst Wilhelm Bursche , the Evangelical Augsburg pastor in Zgierz and later superintendent in Płock , from his second marriage to Marie Mathilde, née. Harmel. He was a lawyer and took an active part in the life of the evangelical community in Warsaw, was a member of the Warsaw Synodal Committee and in 1926 an active participant in the Congress of all Evangelical Organizations in Vilnius . His son Jan became an engineer. Bursches daughter Anna was the Polish female figure skating champion from 1949 to 1953. Alfred Bursche owned a villa in Chyliczki, a suburb of Warsaw, designed by his brother Theodor.

Shortly after the German occupation of Poland began on October 17, 1939, he and two of his brothers (the Warsaw university professor Edmund and the architect Theodor ) were arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg . The members of the Bursche family of German descent were persecuted with particular severity by the Gestapo, and three other male members of the family were subsequently arrested by the Gestapo. Alfred Bursche was later transferred to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he was employed in the stone quarry of the Mauthausen granite works . There he died at the age of 59. Five members of his family also did not survive imprisonment in the concentration camp. The only family member who survived the war, the architect Theodor Bursche († 1965), was involved in the design of the Mauthausen memorial in the post-war years.

Web links

  • Homepage of the Bursche family (Polish)
  • Entry in the Polish personal database (Rainer Berg): Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie: Zmarli i ich rodziny . Edition 1, ISBN 83-06-01606-8 , Państw. Inst. Wydawn., Warsaw 1989; Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarze ewangelickie w Warszawie: Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski, Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Reformowany , Edition 1, ISBN 83-03-02835-9 , Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warsaw 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Köhlmeier, Andreas Baumgartner: Der Geist ist frei , Volume 2. ISBN 978-3902605016 , Edition Mauthausen, 2008, p. 38.
  2. ↑ Straty Kościoła Ewangelickiego w czasie okupacji at Luteranie.pl , the website of the Evangelical-Augsburg and Lutheran Church in Poland, accessed on March 1, 2014 (Polish)
  3. ↑ villa in Chyliczki
  4. ↑ Zofia Jurkowlaniec, Roland Borchers: Polacy for wyboru: Rodziny pochodzenia niemieckiego w Warszawie w XIX i XX wieku / Poland by choice: German descent family in Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fundacja Wspołpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej / Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw 2012, ISBN 978-83-62020-46-1 .
  5. ↑ Władysław Bartoszewski : The death ring around Warsaw, 1939-1944. Interpress, 1969, p. 86.
  6. ^ Tomasz Szarota: Warsaw under the swastika. Life and everyday life in occupied Warsaw October 1, 1939 to July 31, 1944 ( Schöningh Collection on Past and Present, Volume 77472). Schöningh, 1985, ISBN 978-3506774729 , p. 50.
  7. ^ Eduard Kneifel: The pastors of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. A biographical pastor's book with an appendix. E. Kneifel, 1967, pp. 64f.
personal data
SURNAME Lad, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Zgierz
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1942
Place of death Mauthausen -Gusen concentration camp