Ernst Fiering

Life

Fiering learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of electrician . He worked as a shipyard worker in the Hamburg Stülcken shipyard . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emerging National Socialism . In 1926 he belonged with Otto Reimers , Karl Matzen and Karl Roche to the founders of a bloc of anti-authoritarian revolutionaries in which anarcho-syndicalists and anarchists of various backgrounds gathered. After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he made contact with the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen resistance group and, together with his wife Sophie Marie and colleague Franz Reetz, formed a resistance cell in which they provided various types of assistance to forced laborers from Eastern Europe. Although numerous members of the Bästlein group were arrested in the autumn of 1942, the Fierings continued their illegal activities until they were arrested and exterminated themselves. Ernst Fiering and his wife Marie Fiering took the Gestapo along with 69 other men and women from the resistance to Neuengamme concentration camp , where they were hanged without a court judgment .

In front of their house in St. Georgs Kirchhof 26 in Hamburg-Mitte , two stumbling blocks were laid on February 5, 2002 for the Fierings by the action artist Gunter Demnig in memory of them .

personal data
SURNAME	Fiering, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fiering, Ernst Heinrich Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1887 or September 21, 1887
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1945 or April 23, 1945
Place of death	Neuengamme concentration camp