August Quest

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August Quest (born February 25, 1886 in Hamburg , † April 28, 1945 in Bützow-Dreibergen prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Quest came from a simple social background. After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of a former who had to manufacture molds in the foundry of a Hamburg shipyard . He joined the labor movement early on and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Already during the First World War he carried out anti-militarist educational work among the shipyard workers. After it was founded, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which actively fought against the emergence of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he illegally continued his anti-fascist activities . After the beginning of the Second World War he found a connection to the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ", which campaigned for the persecuted. This group included the rubber specialist Karl Kock , who went into hiding after the Bästlein net was blown and was followed by a profile . One of those who offered him a place to hide was August Quest. When the Gestapo became aware of this, he and others were arrested in March 1943. A court sentenced him to a long prison term, which he was supposed to serve in Celle prison. When the British liberation troops approached , the prisoners were transferred from Celle to the Bützow-Dreibergen prison. August Quest died on April 28, 1945 in this completely overcrowded facility, in which the prisoners were barely fed.

August Quest was married to his wife Emma, ​​who was freed from prison or camp “ Langer Morgen ” in 1945 and died seriously ill from the consequences of imprisonment in 1957.

Honor

Stumbling blocks for August and Emma Quest

In front of the last residential address of the married couple Emma and August Quest at Kapellenweg 15 ( Harburg-Wilstorf ), the action artist Gunter Demnig laid two stumbling blocks to remember them .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=de&q=%22August+Quest%22&btnG=#q=%22August+Quest%22&hl=de&tbo=1&tbm=bks&ei=TcVvTpyHHITItAa27rDrBg . &N0&start= b on.2, or.r_gc.r_pw. & fp = 542a8343efa43ca7 & biw = 1440 & bih = 703 Accessed September 14, 2011
  2. ^ Stumbling blocks in Hamburg.Retrieved September 14, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Quest, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1945
Place of death Bützow-Dreibergen