Charlotte Garske

Charlotte Garske (born December 4, 1906 in Berlin , † December 16, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Memorial stone at Springsee

Born as Charlotte Schaepe clerk married the draftsman Erich Garske 1933 in second marriage. Their first marriage, which resulted in a child, was divorced in 1930.

Charlotte Garske was a member of the KPD and acted, among other things, as a courier for Willi Seng . Furthermore, together with her husband, she made her apartment in Berlin-Mitte available to members of the KPD. There the Garske couple and Wilhelm Knöchel were arrested by the Gestapo on January 30, 1943 . Charlotte Garske was sentenced to death by the People's Court in Berlin on November 9, 1943 and executed in Berlin-Plötzensee on December 16, 1943 - three days after her husband .

Memorial stone

In the Limsdorf district of the Brandenburg town of Storkow , a field stone commemorates the Garske couple. The stone is entered in the list of Storkow monuments . The stone was set up in 1944 by friends of the couple at the Springsee , where the Garskes often camped. Such an early resistance monument erected during the Nazi dictatorship is unique in Brandenburg. The simple boulder , around half a meter high, bears the simple inscription: In memory of Lotte and Erich Garske .

The stone is located around one hundred meters above the east bank of the Springsee on the northern edge of the "Naturcampingplatz am Springsee" and still on its site at the end of a small meadow / clearing that extends along the "Small Spring". The small trickle is one of the two rivers that are designated as "Large and Small Springsee Spring" as a natural monument . The location of the partly overgrown stone is characterized by a high pole that protrudes from the undergrowth with the white and blue monument plaque on top.

Memorial stone after the 2013 restoration

As part of an event in the Dahme-Heideseen nature park for the Open Monument Day on September 8, 2013, the memorial stone was exposed and restored.

literature

• Thomas Gebauer: The KPD department of the Gestapo Düsseldorf disserta Verlag, Hamburg 2001, in Google Books
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed May 25, 2014]).

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Kaule: Brandenburg 1933-1945. The historical travel guide. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-8615-3669-7 , p. 102 (entry no. 41: Resistance monument Limsdorf ).
2. ↑ Frank Bretschneider: Around the Glubigseenkette. (PDF; 544 kB) On website: NABU RV Dahmeland.
3. ↑ Iris Stoff: On Monument Day to Springsee. (No longer available online.) In: Märkische Oderzeitung . September 5, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 25, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.