Arthur Emmerlich

Arthur Emmerlich (born September 20, 1907 in Niederwiesa ; † May 21, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Arthur Emmerlich was born and raised in a working-class family near Chemnitz . At first he often changed his profession, including packing, office delivery and blueprint, until he was employed in a screw factory in Chemnitz in 1930.

In 1922 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and later the Communist Youth Association of Germany . Initially an honorary functionary, in 1930 he became UB director for Chemnitz and then organ director of the KJVD district of Saxony . Elected to the central committee of the Communist Youth Association of Germany in October 1930 , Emmerlich worked in the editorial department of the magazine Junge Garde and was deputy head of the youth secretariat of the KPD district leadership in Wasserkante. Then worked in the AM apparatus of the central committee of the KPD for opposing work, after 1933 as an instructor of the central committee of the Communist Youth Association of Germany for the districts of Magdeburg and Hanover . In 1934 Emmerlich emigrated to France via the Saar area , where he initially worked in the Western European secretariat of the RGI. In January 1935 he came to Moscow and was in the press department of the Comintern until 1937. From September 1937 under the code name Herbert Wolf in Paris , Emmerlich took part in January 1939 in the Bern conference of the KPD near Paris. He later traveled to Denmark , where he worked with the head of AL Nord, Heinrich Wiatrek . In the summer of 1940 Emmerlich went to Germany to set up a new, illegal party organization from Berlin. He was actively supported by the elementary school teacher Kurt Steffelbauer from Weddingen . Emmerlich was arrested on May 24, 1941 on the way to Hamburg . On January 10, 1942 he was sentenced to death by the 2nd Senate of the VGH together with Kurt Steffelbauer, Johann Gloger and Alfred Grünberg and executed on May 21, 1942 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

literature

• Embarrassing, Arthur . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .