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Ernst Enge (born February 1, 1893 in Hamburg , † October 17, 1944 in Chemnitz ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Live and act

Enge had already been briefly imprisoned in 1933 and 1939 for his anti-fascist activities. After his release from prison at the end of October 1939, he was conscripted for an armaments company, the Chemnitz mechanical engineering company Moll. But he continued to organize the resistance, together with Rudolf Harlaß . Leaflets were distributed in local factories and money was raised for the families of imprisoned comrades.

Close illegal group helped Soviet, French and Czech slave laborers with food and clothing, as well as with information about the situation on the fronts. She obtained passports, compasses and maps for the escape from the forced labor camp of the Chemnitz Astra works .

In September, an engine fire in a department of the Astra works brought war production to a standstill for six days.

He listened to Radio Moscow at night and, based on the information he had heard, drafted the text for leaflets that were translated into Russian and distributed among Soviet prisoners of war and slave labor.

He was arrested on September 26, 1944 and strangled in the Hohe Strasse prison in Chemnitz on October 17, 1944. His murder was disguised as a suicide by the National Socialists.

Honors

In the school grounds of the Gablenz elementary school in Chemnitz (Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 171), which bore his name until the early 1990s, a memorial stone reminds of Ernst Enge.

From 1945 to 1968 the Schenkenberg settlement in the Reichenhain district of Chemnitz was named after Ernst Enge. The street name was transferred in 1968 to a street in the Chemnitz district of Gablenz, which still bears this name today.

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↑ The circumstances of death are controversial. On September 25, 2013, in front of the Chemnitz Police Department Hartmann corner Promenadestraße street / a stumbling block laid in memory of the resistance fighters Ernst Enge. The inscription “Flucht in den Tod” refers to the suicide version that research by Chemnitz historian Stephan Pfalzer is said to have revealed (Michael Müller: Vom Nazi Murder for Flucht in den Tod . Freie Presse, September 26, 2013, p. 13, above ).

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SURNAME	Close, serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chemnitz anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 17, 1944
Place of death	Chemnitz

[A1-1] The circumstances of death are controversial. On September 25, 2013, in front of the Chemnitz Police Department Hartmann corner Promenadestraße street / a stumbling block laid in memory of the resistance fighters Ernst Enge. The inscription “Flucht in den Tod” refers to the suicide version that research by Chemnitz historian Stephan Pfalzer is said to have revealed (Michael Müller: Vom Nazi Murder for Flucht in den Tod . Freie Presse, September 26, 2013, p. 13, above ).