Carl Burmester (resistance fighter, 1905)

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Carl Burmester (born April 29, 1905 in Hamburg , † after 1945) was a German cooperative and social democratic resistance fighter .

Life

Carl Burmester comes from a working-class family and learned the profession of plumber. In 1924 he became a member of the SPD and later became involved in the Reichsbanner fighting organization . In the SPD he was given a position as "district leader" in the Langenhorn district .

From May 1931 he was branch manager of the Hamburg plumbing cooperative in the operating section at Tangstedter Landstrasse 152 . When this plumber's cooperative was dissolved by the National Socialists on December 1, 1933, Burmester bought the company. Since the business premises were located on municipal property, he negotiated the takeover with the administration and he also obtained a commitment to continue the work in the sanitary engineering area in the Langenhorn housing estate. However, the National Socialists made it a condition that he become a member of the SA . Burmester rejected this request and therefore received neither the approval to manage the company nor the orders. Instead, at the end of 1933, his urban apartment was given away at short notice.

His friend and comrade Bruno Lauenroth organized the social democratic resistance in Langenhorn in 1933 by building an underground SPD group after the party was banned. Burmester also joined this group. On January 19, 1935, Carl Burmester was arrested for maintaining the organizational structures of the SPD and distributing leaflets. On July 19, 1935, he was sentenced by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court to one and a half years in prison for “preparing for high treason ”. On July 19, 1936, he was released from the " Fuhlsbüttel Police Prison ". After his release from prison, he was forbidden from taking the master craftsman examination.

From December 1942 to May 1945 Burmester was a soldier in the Wehrmacht .

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SURNAME Burmester, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1945