Bruno Senftleben

Bruno Senftleben (born August 12, 1905 in Berlin ; † November 26, 1976 in East Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Bruno Senftleben came from a communist working-class family, his father Paulö Senftleben was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and also resisted National Socialism in the Nazi state .

Bruno Senftleben visited after the elementary school a commercial training institution and was accountant . In 1921 he joined the Central Association of Employees . From 1919 to 1923 he belonged to the Socialist Workers' Youth and from 1923 became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a founding member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and ran a hundred scale there. In 1933 he became one of the main distributors of the newspapers of the Red Assault Troop and the Neue Vorwärts . Together with Rudolf Küstermeier, he took care of the compilation of foreign articles, on the one hand for the Red Assault Troop and on the other hand for Blick into the Zeit .

He was arrested on November 30, 1933, and then tortured. Until his trial on February 12, 1934, he remained in custody in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison . On May 24, 1934, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Berlin Superior Court. In addition to him, 25 other people, including Alfred Menger and Franz Meyer, were sentenced to prison terms. He was imprisoned in Berlin-Plötzensee and in Brandenburg-Görden and released in 1937.

After May 8, 1945 he first became a member of the SPD again, but then joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as well as the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF). At the SED he belonged to the financial administration of Berlin-Mitte and was in the party's district leadership from 1966.

He was married to Gertrud Senftleben , who was also active in the Red Shock Troop .

literature

Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-274-4 , pp. 504 .

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Tuchel: The death sentences of the higher court 1943 to 1945. A documentation . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-229-4 , pp. 25 ( onleihe.de [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Senftleben, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1976
Place of death	East Berlin

[1] Johannes Tuchel: The death sentences of the higher court 1943 to 1945. A documentation . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-229-4 , pp. 25 ( onleihe.de [PDF]).