Alfred Rosch

Alfred Rosch (born May 12, 1899 in Knautkleeberg ; † July 5, 1945 in Großzschocher ) was a German communist functionary and athlete.

Alfred Rosch was a communist activist from the very beginning. In the 1920s he founded the motorcycle division of the " Rad- und Kraftfahrerbundes Solidarität " from Knautkleeberg-Großzschocher. He was also a member of the “ Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association ” (ATB) and the KPD . Rosch worked as a lathe operator in the Allgemeine Transportanlagen-Gesellschaft . He was fired because of his union involvement in this company. Then he set up a self-employed repair shop for bicycles and motorcycles. This workshop became a meeting place for worker athletes. Rosch was a member of the combat community for Red Sports Unit .

During the Nazi era , boxes with spare parts that were delivered to Rosh served as camouflage for the transport of what was then illegal writing. He was therefore imprisoned from 1935 to 1936. He then stayed in contact with resistance groups without being a member.

In May 1945 Rosch began to rebuild the KPD in Großzschocher. While guarding the manor there , where food was stored, he was shot by looters on the night of July 5, 1945.

Rosch's daughter is the former GDR politician Ingeburg Lange , his granddaughter is the Berlin writer Katja Lange-Müller . From 1965 to 2001, today's Eichelbaumstrasse in Leipzig was named after him, as was the 60th Polytechnic High School in the south-west of the city. Until 1992, the Leipzig Radrennbahn in Kleinzschocher was named Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn after him .

literature

• Leipzig sports facilities. Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn. Edited by the Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement at the SED City Management Leipzig, Leipzig 1977

Individual evidence

1. ^ Small encyclopedia of physical culture and sport . Verlag Enzyklopädie Leipzig, Leipzig 1960, p. 599 .

Web links

• Alfred Rosch in the Leipzig Lexicon