Curt Bley

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Curt Hermann Otto Bley (born April 19, 1910 in Wittenberg ; † February 4, 1961 in Bonn ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was a co-founder of the Red Strike Troop .

Life

Curt Bley grew up as the son of a postal worker in Wittenberg. After initially being a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , for a short time , he switched to the socialist camp as a law student . He belonged to the SPD and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . He was also active as chairman of the Association of Republican Students and the Socialist Student Union of Heidelberg . He initially worked as a journalist for the Neue Blätter für die Sozialismus . In 1932 he was one of the founders of the Red Strike Troop and wrote for their newspaper of the same name.

In 1933 he paused to finish his state examination. He passed his legal clerkship as well as his assessor examination at the Kammergericht Berlin . From 1934 he built up an auxiliary service for the prisoners of the Red Strike Troop and also acquired money from abroad. From 1937 he was again an active member of the now banned group. In 1939 he contacted the British House of Lords and warned them of Hitler's war plans . He had to end his trip through Great Britain early because of the start of the Second World War .

During the war years he was initially employed in the legal department of Schering AG , after which Adam von Trott zu Solz put him in the Foreign Office . There he worked first as a laborer in Rome, then in Copenhagen. he was not made civil servant because he had not joined the NSDAP . In 1943 he was arrested together with Werner von Trott zu Solz because he supposedly had contacts with the Confessing Church , but was released shortly afterwards.

In May 1943 he registered for military service. Two months before the end of the Third Reich, he was seriously wounded. After the end of the war he was the world's chief editor in Hamburg . In this function he represented Rudolf Küstermeier . He later worked as a lawyer at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Bremen . In 1955 the SPD initiated a party expulsion procedure against him, which he prevented by resigning from the party.

On February 4, 1961, Bley died in Bonn after a serious illness.

literature

  • Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Shock Squad. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism . Lukas Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-274-4 , pp. 390 .
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 , p. 178
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 472

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte: The Red Shock Troop An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism . 1st edition. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-274-4 , pp. 390 .
  2. ^ A b Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: The "other" capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 , p. 78 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Bley, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bley, Kurt; Bley, Curt Hermann Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1961
Place of death Bonn