Arthur Weisbrodt

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Memorial plaque, Hummelstrasse 7, in Berlin-Mahlsdorf

Arthur Kurt Paul Weisbrodt (born September 23, 1909 in Rummelsburg near Berlin , † November 6, 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Arthur Weisbrodt came from a working-class family and learned the profession of optician. Since 1929 he was a member of the KPD . After Hitler came to power , he worked illegally as a courier for the Reich leadership of Red Aid in Germany (RHD) and mainly organized support for those persecuted by the Nazi regime. He also took care of the technical production of the underground magazine of the RHD Tribunal and distributed it in his residential district of Mahlsdorf. He was arrested by the Gestapo and then sentenced to prison. After his release from Brandenburg prison in 1941, he found contact again with the resistance movement of the KPD in Berlin, he joined a group of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization and continued to do “illegal” anti-fascist work. At the beginning of July 1944 , Anton Saefkow's contacts were revealed by a Gestapo spy . Arthur Weisbrodt was then arrested, sentenced to death by the People's Court on September 19, 1944, together with Erwin Nöldner and Bernhard Almstadt , and beheaded in the Brandenburg-Görden prison on November 6, 1944.

Honors

In the GDR, Arthur Weisbrodt was honored as an anti-fascist and resistance fighter:

  • In Berlin, a street in the Berlin-Lichtenberg district was named after Arthur Weisbrodt.
  • In 1973 , a memorial stone for Arthur Weisbrodt was erected on the courtyard of Schloss Goseck , a youth hostel named after him in Goseck at the time , which was removed immediately after German reunification in 1990.
  • A memorial plaque was attached to his house until the fall of the Wall . It is now in the district museum.

In Berlin-Mahlsdorf , a memorial stone for Arthur Weisbrodt as well as for Johann Przybilla and Karl Vesper was unveiled on January 7, 2010 on Hummelplatz near the Mahlsdorf S-Bahn station .

literature

Web links

Commons : Arthur Weisbrodt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remembrance of persecution and resistance on the Mahlsdorf Hummelplatz
personal data
SURNAME Weisbrodt, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisbrodt, Arthur Kurt Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rummelsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel