Arthur Hoffmann (resistance fighter)
Arthur Hoffmann (born September 29, 1900 in Wichelsdorf , Sprottau district , province of Silesia , † January 12, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Arthur Hoffmann was born the son of a bricklayer into a working-class family and later completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In 1919 he joined the USPD and in 1920 the KPD . In Delitzsch he fought against the Kapp putschists and was sentenced to two years in prison. From 1925 he lived in Leipzig, where he became a member of the KPD sub-district leadership, joined the Red Front Fighters League (RFB) in 1926 and was elected as a member of the district leadership of the RFB West Saxony from 1927. In 1929, after the RFB was banned by the then Interior Minister Carl Severing , Hoffmann was imprisoned for three weeks for organizing a protest rally. In the same year he moved as a city councilor in the Leipziger a city council. In 1931 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment after attempting to buy weapons, but released early in the event of an amnesty in 1932.
After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, Hoffmann went underground as the organizer of the anti-fascist resistance in Chemnitz , but was arrested in November. In 1934 Hoffmann was sentenced to 3 years in prison. After serving his sentence, he was taken into protective custody in 1937 . After a few months in Buchenwald concentration camp , he was released in December. From 1938 to 1944 Hoffmann was one of the organizers of the anti-fascist resistance in Leipzig around Georg Schumann as part of the so-called Schumann-Engert-Kresse Group . He worked compulsorily in various armaments factories, his political work aimed at disrupting production and causing rejects. From 1943 he worked on the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD).
On July 19, 1944, Hoffmann and his family were arrested again. The trial against him and four co-defendants in Dresden before the Second Senate of the People's Court on November 22nd and 23rd ended with a death sentence, which was carried out on January 12, 1945. After the end of the war, Arthur Hoffmann's urn was buried together with those of other leading members of the resistance group in Leipzig's southern cemetery on the central axis of the main path.
Honors
Since August 1, 1945, a main road in Leipzig that leads from Bayrischer Platz to Connewitz has been called Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße (formerly Bayrische Straße ). A stumbling block was set for him in this street in July 2012 .
Until 1992 the 3rd Polytechnic High School in Leipzig (Bernhard-Göring-Straße 107) was called Arthur-Hoffmann-Oberschule .
literature
- Luise Kraushaar among others: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 1, Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, pages 494-497
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Ed .: PRO LEIPZIG. 2nd Edition. Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-03-1 , pp. 245 .
- ↑ Reference on stolpersteine-leipzig.de , accessed on October 18, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 29th September 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wichelsdorf , Sprottau District , Province of Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |