Ernst Beuthke

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Ernst Beuthke (born March 3, 1903 in Deutsch-Wilmersdorf (today Berlin-Wilmersdorf) ; † August 11, 1943 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism , a Spanish fighter and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Beuthke was born in the then independent municipality of Deutsch-Wilmersdorf (now a district of Berlin). His parents were the ironman Richard Beuthke and his wife Anna geb. Rossius. The siblings Fritz , Walter (* 1904) and Lotte (* 1909) grew up with him . Ernst was the only one of the sons who did not learn a trade. He first worked as a warehouse worker and then managed a warehouse at Siemens. From 1928 to 1933 he was unemployed. In 1927 he married Ella, nee Dahlke. The couple had a daughter Doris, born on August 15, 1934.

At an early age he orientated himself politically in communist organizations and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Like his family members, he was committed against the emergence of National Socialism . In 1933 he was seriously wounded by a shot in the stomach during a dispute with SA men in the area of ​​today's General-Barby-Strasse / Scharnweberstrasse. However, his life was saved in the Charité. After his recovery it became too dangerous for him after the handover of power to the NSDAP in Germany and he fled to the Soviet Union at the end of 1933.

In October 1936 Beuthke joined the International Brigades of Spanish Fighters. After the fighting ended, he returned to the Soviet Union as an officer and worked there in a tank factory in the Caucasus. In 1943 he made a detour to London. From there he flew to Berlin on a British plane and jumped with a radio west of the city and joined one of the resistance groups that the Gestapo led under the name of the Rote Kapelle when they were fighting them. When many of its members and liaison officers were arrested in 1942, Beuthke tried to reestablish the severed links with those who had not been exposed. The resistance fighter Ella Trebe hosted him for a while . When the Nazi authorities learned of this, Beuthke was arrested and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There he was murdered on August 11, 1943 with seven of his family members in the industrial yard of the concentration camp.

Honor

Stolperstein.Reinickendorf.Quäkerstraße 28. Ernst Beuthke.8090.jpg

On June 7, 2013, Stolpersteine were laid for him and all murdered family members in Quäkerstrasse 28 in Berlin.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Fieber (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933–1945. A biographical lexicon. (Part 1). trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89626-350-1 , p. 154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register StA Deutsch-Wilmersdorf No. 172/1903 .
  2. ↑ a b c Information on the website stolpersteine-berlin.de
  3. ^ Communist Party of Austria: Way and Goal. Stern-Verlag, 1971. on Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Beuthke, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beuthke, Ernst Gustav Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1943
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp