Erich Baron
Erich Baron (born July 20, 1881 in Berlin ; † April 26, 1933 there ) was a German lawyer , journalist , politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism of Jewish origin.
Life
Erich Baron studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin between 1900 and 1904 . Since 1907 he was the responsible editor of the " Brandenburger Zeitung " in Brandenburg an der Havel . Between 1910 and February 1919 he was a member of the Brandenburg city council . After his military service from 1916 to 1918, Baron, who had meanwhile become a member of the USPD , became chairman of the Central Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Brandenburg on November 10, 1918 . From the spring of 1921, Baron was also a domestic editor in the KPD's press office .
On February 1, 1924 he became general secretary of the Society of Friends of the New Russia , a group of open-minded and impartial intellectuals of bourgeois origin, as well as publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine “Das neue Russland”, which had its office at Kavalierstrasse 22 in Berlin-Pankow . Baron lived in this house with his family from 1919 until his imprisonment on the night of the Reichstag fire in February 1933. Baron died after severe torture , presumably by suicide, on April 26, 1933, where he was hanged in his prison cell the Lehrter Strasse (Berlin ) found.
Appreciations
- There is a memorial plaque inaugurated in 2005 at Kavalierstraße 22 in Berlin-Pankow. A memorial plaque that was inaugurated at the same location in 1981 and designed by Heinz Worner was stolen by strangers in 1991/1992.
- In the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde his name is mentioned on a porphyry memorial stone.
- The Erich-Baron-Weg in Berlin-Mahlsdorf was named after the resistance fighter on May 24, 1951. In Brandenburg an der Havel there is an Erich-Baron-Straße in the district of Kirchmöser-Dorf .
- The name of the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) "Erich Baron" in Berlin-Pankow (today Elizabeth-Shaw - Elementary School , Grunowstraße) was revoked in 1991. The POS "Erich Baron" in Brandenburg-Kirchmöser Ost no longer exists.
- In 1988, the Bucholz fire station on Gravensteinstrasse in Berlin-Pankow was named after his name
literature
- Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945 . tape 1 . Berlin 1970, p. 75 ff .
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Baron in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erich Baron: Structure In: Taut, Bruno: Die Stadtkrone. Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1919
- Eberhard Butter: Erich Baron - murdered on April 26, 1933 , communist platform reports from April 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Press release ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the Pankow district office on the inauguration of a memorial plaque for Erich Baron, June 6, 2005
- ↑ Erich Baron in honor directory of Luisenstädtischer Education Association
- ^ Exhibition "Jewish Life in Pankow" ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Johannes Tuchel: ... and the rope was waiting for all of them . The cell prison Lehrter Strasse 3 after July 20, 1944. Lukas Verlag Berlin 2014, p. 25. Tuchel refers, among other things, to the yearbook for research on the history of the workers' movement 2002 / II, p. 127ff.
- ^ Erich-Baron-Weg (Berlin-Mahlsdorf). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Baron, Erich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1881 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1933 |
Place of death | Berlin |