Erich Krause (resistance fighter)

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Erich Krause (born February 18, 1905 in Hagen , † July 10, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Krause joined the KPD , despite contradictions in his parents' house . In 1926 he left his hometown and moved to Berlin . In the capital he worked in various companies as a lathe operator and worked for communist company cells.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Krause joined the resistance. He raised money to support political prisoners and distributed leaflets. In 1936 he found work at Daimler-Benz in Berlin-Marienfelde . There he also took part in the illegal activity of a company group. During the Second World War, the group at Daimler-Benz combined their efforts with those of the Nazi opponents in the Genshagen branch of Daimler-Benz , in the Schwartzkopff works in Wildau and with those of a communist group in Niederlehme near Königs Wusterhausen . Under the leadership of the communists Erich Prenzlau and Wilhelm Jakob , they won over social democrats and members of the Wehrmacht for the fight to end the war more quickly . The group of Nazi opponents, to which more than a hundred people of different ideologies belonged, published a series of leaflets and its own newspaper, Die Rote Fahne . It disrupted war production in the armaments factories Daimler-Benz and Schwartzkopff. In May 1943 Krause and many other group members were arrested. In March 1944, twenty workers were sentenced to death. Krause was executed under the guillotine in Brandenburg prison.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 1. Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 523f.
  • Karl Heinz Roth, Michael Schmid, Rainer Fröbe: Daimler-Benz AG 1916–1948: Key documents in corporate history . Greno, Nördlingen 1987, pp. 190f.
  • Hans-Joachim Fieber: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 4.Trafo, Berlin 2002, p. 159.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Roth (1987) and Fieber (2002); Kraushaar (1970) gives July 11, 1944 as the date of death
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg