Ernst Reinke
Ernst Reinke (born November 28, 1891 in Memel ; † April 28, 1943 in Flossenbürg concentration camp ) was a German politician (KPD).
Live and act
Reinke attended elementary school in Tilsit from 1897 to 1905 . After leaving school, he worked in inland shipping and was drafted into the navy in 1911 . In the following years he served on the small cruiser Nuremberg , which was stationed in China .
After the First World War , Reinke joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Until 1925 he was employed as a worker for the Reichsbahn in Tilsit. As a participant in the rail strike in Tilsit, he was released. From 1924 to 1925 he was a member of the Tilsit city council. In August 1925 Reinke moved to Berlin and became a factory worker.
In September 1930 Reinke was elected to the Reichstag as his party's candidate for constituency 2 (Berlin) , from which he left prematurely in June 1931. Hanna Sandtner took over his mandate .
As a KPD functionary, he was then temporarily responsible for the practical management of the Kampfbund against Fascism . He was also a member of the RGO Reichsleitung. Arrested on February 28, 1933, Reinke came to the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz and was taken to the Esterwegen concentration camp after severe abuse . Dismissed in August 1934, he then worked as a mixer at Siemes-Plania. Here Reinke tried to set up an illegal cell.
In 1939 Reinke was arrested again by the Gestapo for working illegally for the KPD . In the following years he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen and Flossenbürg concentration camps .
Honors
A street in Berlin-Lichtenberg in the new development area between Landsberger Allee and Storkower Straße was named Ernst-Reinke-Straße in the 1960s . In the VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg plant , a brigade was named Ernst Reinke.
Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Reinke in Berlin near the Reichstag .
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 2, 2013]).
Web links
- Ernst Reinke in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ From the Reichstag handbook (digitized); Berlin 1930; accessed on October 5, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Günther Hortzschansky: Ernst Thälmann. Eine Biographie , 1981, p. 488.
- ↑ Biography in the Lichtenberg Museum
- ↑ Anna Dora Miethe: Memorials. Labor movement, anti-fascist. Resistance, Building Socialism , 1974, p. 52.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinke, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Flossenbürg concentration camp |