Ernst Heß (resistance fighter)
Ernst Heß (born May 18, 1880 in St. Kilian ; † April 16, 1945 on the death march from Ichtershausen to Flossenbürg ) was a communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
Life
Hess attended elementary school in St. Kilian. Then he learned the shoemaking trade . He became politically active at an early stage. He became a member of the SPD . After the First World War he joined the KPD . He was also active in a workers gymnastics club and a workers choir . For 31 years he worked in the Keßler shoemaker's workshop in the Suhl shoe store on Steinweg. He married and last lived with his wife on Fallmich 16. For years he worked against the rise of National Socialism and, after 1933, also illegally . On June 8, 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the Ichtershausen state prison . When the prisoners were evacuated in the spring of 1945, Ernst Hess also went on the death march in the direction of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . Here he succumbed to the hardships on April 16. Ernst Hess was married to Hedwig Hess, who experienced liberation from National Socialism .
memory
- In 1946, Suhler Strasse Am Fallmich was renamed Ernst-Heß-Strasse.
literature
- Gerd Kaiser (Ed.), Upright and strong , in it Elke Pudszuhn with a memory of Ernst Heß, p. 58f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Kaiser (Ed.), Aufrecht und stark, pp. 58f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Kilian |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1945 |
| Place of death | between Ichtershausen and Flossenbürg |