Arno Lade

Arno Lade (far left) in 1910

Arno Lade (born February 1, 1892 at Gut Masten near Döbeln ; † January 19, 1944 in Dresden ) was a Dresden worker functionary and resistance fighter .

Life

Lade was born in 1892 as the eldest of six children of the servant and coachman Friedrich Hermann Lade and the maid Lina Wittberta on the Mastener Großgut near Döbeln. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to the Greussnig estate , where the parents found work. The children had to support their parents with their work in agriculture from an early age. Lade attended the village school in Ebersbach .

In 1906, Lade began an apprenticeship as a blacksmith in Döbeln . Also in 1906 he joined the “Fichte” workers' gymnastics club in Döbeln. After completing his apprenticeship, Lade became a blacksmith in the machine factory of Franz Ludwig Richter in Döbeln, where he also worked as a union member. During this time he met the maid Anna Schäfer, whom he married.

Lade was made redundant in the course of the economic crisis and worked for the next two years in various companies, as he was known as an energetic trade unionist. He moved to Dresden in 1911. In 1913 he was called up for military service and joined the artillery regiment in Dresden . He was released from active military service after a short time due to an injury, but remained active in the artillery service until the end of his service during the First World War . He was employed in the workshops of the Dresden artillery arsenal . During this time he was actively involved in the SPD , of which he had already become a member before the First World War in 1914, and joined the USPD in 1917 .

After the end of the First World War, Lade began his work at the Trachenberge tram station in Dresden. At the time he was living in the Äußere Neustadt in a rear building at Förstereistraße 36, which has been preserved. In 1919 he became a member of the KPD . In Dresden he was first elected to the works council at his place of work and from January 1920 onwards he and his colleague Paul Gruner represented the interests of the workforce in all municipal companies in the general works council. He witnessed attacks on protesting streetcar drivers, in which more than 50 demonstrators were killed on March 15, 1920.

As a speaker for the KPD, Lade was active in Geringswalde and Nossen , among others , and Ernst Götze was one of his fellow campaigners in addition to Paul Gruner . At the end of 1923 Lade became a candidate for the city council in Dresden and in the summer of 1924 finally city council; he remained active in this function until 1933. At the Dresden transport company , Lade founded the “ Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition ” (RGO), which published the publication “Der Rote Straßenbahner”. As a result, together with Gruner and Götze, Lade was increasingly exposed to hostility, which intensified in the course of the worsening global economic crisis around 1930. As a result of drastic cuts in wages for tram workers in the wake of the emergency ordinance of June 5, 1931, Lade, Gruner and Götze held a meeting of the revolutionary trade union opposition in the summer of 1931, during which they called for a strike. They were reported to the labor court for this, as a call to strike constituted a call to breach a contract, and shortly afterwards they were dismissed without notice. The discharge was confirmed in early 1932.

Arno Lades urn grave in the Heidefriedhof

Lade continued to work on the local committee of the RGO in Steinstrasse. He took part in protests by the unemployed on January 25, 1933, which culminated in a gathering in the Keglerheim and ended with a police attack and numerous deaths ("Keglerheim raid"). On March 3, 1933, Lade and Paul Gruner were arrested, interrogated and mistreated at the Dresden police headquarters and finally taken to the Hohnstein concentration camp. He was released after 13 weeks in detention, but his health deteriorated significantly. In Dresden he lived under police control. Only in 1938 did he get a new job and became a fitter and scribe in the steam boiler plant in Dresden-Übigau . Here, too, he began to act as an agitator and campaigned for slave labor with other workers . He established again in touch with Paul Gruner and was Otto Galle for liaison of locksmith - Blochwitz group in boiler plant Dresden Übigau used.

Lade's state of health had deteriorated further in freedom and so he was admitted to the Löbtau hospital in November 1943 . In December the Schlosser Blochwitz group was betrayed and its members, including Otto Galle, arrested. On January 18, 1944, Lade was arrested in the hospital and murdered in the Dresden police headquarters on the night of January 19, 1944. The last time the Lades lived was at 12 Wurzener Strasse; the house was destroyed in 1945. His urn grave is in the honor grove of the heather cemetery .

Commemoration

The 26th Polytechnic High School in Pieschen was given the honorary name "Arno Lade" in 1969, after the fall of the Wall the POS became the 26th elementary school "Am Markusplatz". In Dresden, Yorkstrasse in Pieschen was renamed Arno-Lade-Strasse in 1946. On the skyscraper on Albertplatz , a memorial plaque commemorated the anti-fascists on the Dresden tram in GDR times . The inscription on the plaque read: "Keep fighting in your spirit - Paul Gruner, Arno Lade, Paul Schwarze , Gustav Richter , Karl Stein , Arthur Knöfel". Also after the fall of the Wall, a memorial plaque for Arno Lade was removed from the building of the Übigau steam boiler building on Rethelstraße 47/51.

Laden's curriculum vitae is part of the biographical collection of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime , which was founded in 1947 and dissolved in the GDR in 1953 , which is kept in the Federal Archives .

literature

Ark, Arno . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, pp. 63–65.
SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Chub 1972.
Ark, Arno . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding. Dresden 1976, p. 46.

Individual evidence

↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 5.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 6.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 7.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 8.
^ Ark, Arno . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding. Dresden 1976, p. 46.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 9.
^ Ark, Arno . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 64.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 10.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 13.
↑ SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 16.
↑ Cf. Monika Zorn: Hitler's Victims Killed Twice: West German Final Solution of Antifascism in the Territory of the GDR . Ahriman publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1994, p. 280.
↑ Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl and Regina Scheer: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 654.
↑ File DY 55 / V 278/6/1051 / I

personal data
SURNAME	Ark, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German worker functionary and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Good masts at Chub
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1944
Place of death	Dresden

[1] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 5.

[2] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 6.

[3] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 7.

[4] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 8.

[5] Ark, Arno . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding. Dresden 1976, p. 46.

[6] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 9.

[7] Ark, Arno . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 64.

[8] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 10.

[9] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 13.

[10] SED district leadership Döbeln, district comm. Chub for research into the history of the local labor movement: Arno Lade . Döbeln 1972, p. 16.

[11] Cf. Monika Zorn: Hitler's Victims Killed Twice: West German Final Solution of Antifascism in the Territory of the GDR . Ahriman publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1994, p. 280.

[12] Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl and Regina Scheer: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 654.

[13] File DY 55 / V 278/6/1051 / I