Bruno Tesch (communist)

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Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch (born April 22, 1913 in Kiel ; † August 1, 1933 in Altona / Elbe ) was a German anti-fascist and communist . In 1933 he was found guilty of murder in a trial staged by the National Socialists on blood Sunday in Altona and was executed . In November 1992 the judgment was overturned.

Life

Stumbling block for Bruno Tesch, in front of the district court of Altona at Max-Brauer-Allee 89.
Memorial plaque at the place of execution behind today's Altona District Court
Bruno Tesch, Ehrenhain Ohlsdorf

The son of an Italian woman lived in Italy with his mother during his childhood and came to his stepfather in Hamburg in 1925 at Schauenburger Strasse 34 (today Schomburgstrasse). He learned the profession of plumber from 1929 . After completing his apprenticeship, he was unemployed and went to the Voluntary Labor Service (FAD).

From 1930 he belonged to the socialist youth workers , but soon joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany .

On July 17, 1932, which later went down in history as Altona Bloody Sunday, communists, including Tesch, tried to prevent the National Socialists from marching through the old town of the workers' stronghold of Altona. In the escalating conflict, two SA men and 16 uninvolved citizens were shot, the latter by police bullets. Tesch, who was involved in a brawl with participants in the demonstration, is said to have fired shots afterwards.

After the National Socialists came to power, a trial began before the Nazi special court in Altona. Although the results of the investigation by the judicial authorities did not provide any conclusive evidence of his guilt and not even the fact that he had taken a firearm could be proven, Tesch was sentenced to death together with Walter Möller , Karl Wolff and August Lütgens and on August 1, 1933 in the courtyard of the court ( today the district court of Altona resides there ) beheaded with the hand ax. These were the first executions in the Third Reich.

Commemoration

A school (POS Bruno Tesch) in Klausdorf (near Berlin - today "Am Mellensee"), a children's home in Friedrichsbrunn (today "Zur Tannenspitze") and a street in Wismar were named after Bruno Tesch . Against political resistance, a former comprehensive school in Hamburg-Altona managed to get it named after Bruno Tesch. This school was only a few hundred meters away from the place where the Altona Blood Sunday occurred. At the place of execution, behind today's Altona District Court, a memorial with a stele for the four resistance fighters was set up in 1985. In 2005 the associated board was renewed. In front of the entrance to the district court, a stumbling block was laid for him at Max-Brauer-Allee 89 , along with the stumbling blocks for August Lütgens, Karl Wolff and Walter Möller. Finally, on November 13, 1992, the Hamburg district court subsequently acquitted those sentenced to death of guilt. Further judgments of the special court in connection with the Altona Blood Sunday were overturned on June 21, 1996 and June 29, 1998.

The Altona Bruno Tesch Comprehensive School has since been dissolved and demolished in 2008. A swimming pool, a kindergarten and a new school were built on the site. The new school was not named after Bruno Tesch again, but after the social democrat Louise Schroeder . In June 2008, a corner of the street between Großer Bergstrasse and Jessenstrasse was officially designated as Bruno-Tesch-Platz ( 53 ° 33 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E ).

In the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf there is a pillow stone for Bruno Tesch (fourth row from the left, fourteenth stone).

A feeder trawler with the fishing identification number ROS 411 of the "Artur Becker" series also got its name.

literature

  • Catalog book for the exhibition of the Museum of Hamburg History: Workers' Movement in Hamburg from the Beginnings to 1945. Hamburg 1988.
  • Leon Schirmann : The proceedings of the special court Altona / Kiel 1932–1937 against the suspects of the "Altona Blood Sunday". In: Standgericht der Inner Front. The special court Altona / Kiel 1932–1945. Edited by Robert Bohn / Uwe Danker, Hamburg 1998.
  • Stephan Hermlin : The first row. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1951, page 5ff of the fifth edition 1985.
  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, Volume 2, pp. 330–333.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Sophie Naue: A place in memory of Bruno Tesch. The so-called Jessenplatz is now officially called Bruno-Tesch-Platz. In: steg Hamburg mbH (Ed.): Meilenstein No. 7, September 2008, p. 10. ( Online as PDF, 740 kB ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steg-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ hh.shuttle.de
  3. ↑ RotFuchs October 2010, p. 10
  4. ^ Abendblatt.de July 16, 2008 - Square commemorates Nazi victims Tesch
personal data
SURNAME Tesch, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tesch, Bruno Guido Camillo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1933
Place of death Altona