Auguste Breitzke

Mention of Gustchen Breitzke in the inscription on the court prison memorial in Hanover

Auguste Breitzke (born March 21, 1908 in Badenstedt , † November 28, 1982 in Sarstedt ), also called Gustchen or Gustel, was a social democratic resistance fighter .

Life

"Gustchen" Breitzke attended elementary school and worked in agriculture from 1922 to 1926, then in industry. In 1927 she joined the SPD and the metal workers' association . From 1931 to 1933 she was a member of the district executive of the SPD children's organization " Rote Falken " . At the end of 1933 she became engaged to Franz Nause , through whom she came to the Socialist Front (SF) resistance group led by Werner Blumenberg at the end of 1934 : "Gustel" helped produce the socialist papers , even after Franz Nause was arrested was. On September 15, Breitzke was arrested and imprisoned in the judicial prison: the People's Court sentenced her to two years in prison, which she spent in the Lübeck-Lauerhof women's prison. Her brother Albert Breitzke was sentenced to three years in prison by the Hamm Higher Regional Court on December 15, 1937 in Hanover .

After the Second World War , Auguste Breitzke rejoined the SPD in February 1946.

Honors

In Wettbergen , the Breitzkeweg built in 1988 was named after the resistance fighter.
Gustel Breitzke is named in the inscription on the court prison memorial in Hanover next to the pavilion : The memorial, unveiled on May 8, 1989, on the site of the former court prison, commemorates those persecuted there by the Nazi dictatorship .

literature

Herbert Obenaus , W. Sommer: Political prisoners in the Hanover judicial prison during the National Socialist rule. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 44 (1990), pp. 157-161
B. Rabe: The "Socialist Front". Social Democrats Against Fascism 1933-1936 , 1984
K. Theilen (edit.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933-1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover , 2000
Klaus Mlynek : Breitzke, Auguste. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 82f.

Web links

Keyword Breitzke in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Mlynek: Socialist Front. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 573
↑ see inscription on the photo of the memorial
^ Klaus Mlynek: Breitzke, Auguste (Gustchen, Gustel). In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 70f.

personal data
SURNAME	Breitzke, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Breitzke, Gustel; Breitzke, Gustchen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German social democratic resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Badenstedt
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1982
Place of death	Sarstedt near Hanover

[1] Klaus Mlynek: Socialist Front. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 573

[2] see inscription on the photo of the memorial

[3] Klaus Mlynek: Breitzke, Auguste (Gustchen, Gustel). In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 70f.