Anton Breitinger

Anton Breitinger (born June 19, 1898 , † September 17, 1942 in Frankfurt-Preungesheim ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Anton Breitinger worked as a painter. Until 1933 he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, which took on official duties as a cashier in the Bornheimer district and as a member of the district complaints commission. Around 1928 he married Franziska Rötzer, with whom he had two children.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, he worked for a year and a half in the illegal underground movement that the Communists established after their party was banned in March 1933. In mid-1934 he initially withdrew from party work, which was already illegal at the time, after the first arrests had taken place.

In 1939 Breitinger began to act illegally against the Nazi state again: He campaigned for the communist cause among his work colleagues and closed company cells in various companies - a.o. a. Teves, the aircraft manufacturer Max Gerner and the Bahnpostamt 19 - together to form a network. The connections of his organizations extended beyond Frankfurt am Main , among others to Wiesbaden , the Saar area and Wetzlar .

Stumbling block for Anton Breitinger in Frankfurt-Bornheim

During the Second World War, Breitinger and his like-minded friends organized several campaigns against the Nazi state, such as a work stoppage at Teves in 1941 , the distribution of leaflets that z. Some of them came from Radio Moscow , as well as training courses that were held by Adam Leis , among others . At a meeting in 1941, Breitinger and Leis decided to work together underground from now on. A smuggled spy betrayed the group to the secret police, so that it was crushed in the summer of 1941: Eight members were arrested.

Breitinger was charged with Edmund Germann , Wilhelm Hugo , Julius Nees , Wilhelm Klöppinger , Leis and Otto Häuslein before the People's Court of preparation for high treason. Printer Ochs, who was also arrested, had committed suicide before the trial. At the June 25, 1942 session, they were found guilty and sentenced to death. The executions were carried out on September 25 of the same year with the guillotine in the Frankfurt-Preungesheim prison . The mortal remains of the men were given to the Anatomical Institute in Giessen .

Since June 2013, in front of the house at Neebstrasse 3, Breitinger's last residence before his arrest, one has been remembering his fate.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.frankfurt.de , accessed on Feb. 24, 2020.