Erich Baron

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Memorial plaque on the house at Kavalierstrasse 22, in Berlin-Pankow

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Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) "Erich Baron" in Berlin-Pankow (today Elizabeth-Shaw - Elementary School , Grunowstraße) was revoked in 1991.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

Web links

Commons : Erich Baron  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Erich Baron in honor directory of Luisenstädtischer Education Association
  3. ^ Exhibition "Jewish Life in Pankow" ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ^ Erich-Baron-Weg (Berlin-Mahlsdorf). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
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