Honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters

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Ehrenhain Hamburg resistance fighters

The Hamburg Resistance Fighters Ehrenhain (also: Hamburg Resistance Fighters Ehrenhain) is a grave and memorial site at the Ohlsdorf cemetery for 55 anti-fascists from the Hamburg labor movement in Germany who were executed between 1933 and 1945 or who died as a result of imprisonment .

location

Stone wall with legacy

To the right of the main entrance on Bergstrasse has been the Ehrenhain Hamburg resistance fighters since September 8, 1946. The bronze sculpture “Der Redner”, created in 1953 by the Hamburg sculptor Richard Steffen (1903–1964), stood at the entrance to the Ehrenhain until it was stolen in March 2011. The words stand as a legacy on the stone wall

"Humans, we loved you, be vigilant."

- Julius Fučík , Czech resistance fighter, executed in 1943

Creation of the plant

In the years 1946/1947 urns of executed resistance members were buried near the graves for those who fell from the Revolution from 1918 to 1920. In the early 1960s, the urns were reburied at their current location, the cemetery was designed by the architect Karlheinz Rebstock and a sculpture by the sculptor Richard Steffen was installed.

The victims

Example of one of the similar pillow stones (Erika and Werner Etter)

The graves are arranged in four rows and marked by pillow stones with names, dates of birth and death and the concentration camp marking for prisoners of an isosceles triangle standing on top. The first victims included participants in the Altona Blood Sunday , the executed August Lütgens , Bruno Tesch , Karl Wolff and Walter Möller and Emil Theodor Hans Wendt, who was murdered in 1944 .

Causes for imprisonment were e.g. B. Desertion, critical statements and participation in the resistance. The resistance fighters were killed by military execution orders , murder , as participants in the Spanish civil war , death sentences by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court , People's Court , special courts , courts-martial , orders from the Reich Security Main Office , conditions of detention in the concentration camp .

Stumbling blocks were also laid later for Bernhard Bästlein , Erika Etter , Hans Hornberger , Karl Kock , August Lütgens , Walter Möller (antifascist) , Wilhelm Stein (resistance fighter) , Bruno Tesch (communist) and Karl Wolff (antifascist) (status: 2005) came more.

Overview of the pillow block rows

- each from the left (from the entrance / speaker sculpture):
first row: Karl Schaar, Oswald Laue, Richard Behre, Walter Bunge, Bruno Meisel, Eduard Olejniczak, Gustav Hüsing, Heinrich Seifert, Franz Händler, Emil Tiessat, Rudolf and Ernst Stender, Erika and Werner Etter , Bruno and Heinz Priess, Otto Marquardt .
second row: TH Emil Wendt , Irene Wosikowski , Kurt von Appen, Harry von Bargen, Kurt Schill , Hans Hornberger , Hermann Spreckels, Elisabeth and Gustav Bruhn , Rudolf Lindau, Hans Görtz, Vatti Hoffmann.
third row: Bernhard Bästlein , Franz Jacob , Robert Abshagen , Kurt Vorpahl , Wilhelm Stein , Walter Reber , Karl Kock , Erich Heins , Heinrich Zimmermann, Konrad Hoffmann, Fiete Schulze , Otto Peters, Claudius Gosau , Bertus Hoffmann.
fourth row: Wilhelm Boller , Kurt Beusse, August Kähler, Friedrich Dossel, Erich Schult, Friedrich Kaefer, Willy Szczepanski, Etkar André , Hans Westermann , Albert Bennies, August Lütgens , Walter Möller , Karl Wolff , Bruno Tesch .
Some resistance fighters without Wikipedia biography as well as most of the "blue links" have an entry on Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg
(as of September 2017)

Another burial ground for resistance fighters

In the eastern part of the cemetery near the entrance to Bramfelder Chaussee there is another burial ground, the field of honor of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation for resistance fighters and victims of Nazi persecution from 1933 to 1945 who died after 1945.

literature

  • Ursel Hochmuth: Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945. A grove of honor documentation in text and images. Edited by the VVN - Bund der Antifaschisten eV, Hamburg 2005. ISBN 3-89965-121-9 .

Web links

Commons : Ehrenhain Hamburg Resistance Fighters  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release Friedhof Ohlsdorf from March 31, 2011 The ASCE, the Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof and the World Monuments Fund , accessed on November 30, 2012
  2. ^ Ohlsdorf cemetery: Ehrenhain Hamburg resistance fighters at memorials in Hamburg
  3. ↑ picture of Steffen -Bronzeskulptur and the successor figure ( Memento of 31 July 2017 Internet Archive ) from sculptor concrete from Hammond North / Beppler (2015)
  4. ^ Book Review: Graves and Biographies of Hamburg Resistance Fighters
  5. ↑ stolpersteine-hamburg.de .
  6. ^ Ohlsdorf cemetery: Ehrenhain Hamburg resistance fighters at memorials in Hamburg  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gedenkstaetten-in-hamburg.de  
  7. ^ Ehrenfeld of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 9 ″  E