Alfred Jung (resistance fighter)
Alfred Jung (born June 13, 1908 in Berlin ; † December 4, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German administrative employee and communist resistance fighter during the Nazi era who was executed for supporting French prisoners of war .
Life
Alfred Jung was the son of the bricklayer Friedrich Jung. After graduating from elementary school , he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and trained as an administrative employee. From 1927 he belonged to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), after the Nazis came to power in 1933 he was imprisoned several times. At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and later in the course of the war he was assigned to serve in the Fürstenwalde prisoner-of-war camp as a paramedic .
In several illegal leaflets and in articles in the KPD party newspaper “ Die Rote Fahne ”, he advocated the prisoners of war . In addition, with the help of acquaintances, he passed messages from French inmates of the camp to the leadership of the banned KPD in Berlin as well as food to the prisoners. After his activities were discovered in July 1944, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court on October 31 of the same year for " disrupting military strength and preparing for high treason " and beheaded in December in the prison in Brandenburg-Görden.
Honors
A street and a senior citizens' home in Berlin's Lichtenberg district are named after Alfred Jung . In addition, he and six other people are mentioned by name on the memorial stele erected in 1975 for anti-fascist resistance fighters on the corner of Koppenstrasse and Singerstrasse in Berlin-Friedrichshain .
literature
- Lichtenberger Rathausnachrichten. Monthly newspaper for the Berlin district of Lichtenberg. Volume 7, number 2nd edition of February 3, 2007, p. 4
- Prisoners of war in Brandenburg. The Stalag III B in Fürstenberg (Oder). Brochure from the City Museum Eisenhüttenstadt for the exhibition from November 9, 2003 to March 14, 2004; published 2003
Web links
- Biographical information (with picture) in the Lichtenberg Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ museum-lichtenberg.de - Alfred Jung (1908–1944). Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Alfred-Jung-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jung, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and resistance fighter during the Nazi era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1944 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |