Erwin Nöldner

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The stele in Berlin-Weißensee, behind it a part of the building of the former company "Auert"
Memorial stone , Nöldnerplatz, in Berlin-Rummelsburg

Erwin Nöldner (born April 29, 1913 in Lichtenberg ; † November 6, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Nöldner lived in Lichtenberg , district Rummelsburg , at Türrschmidtstrasse 16. As a ten-year-old he joined the Jungspartakusbund. After attending school, he learned the trade of a locksmith, but soon after completing his apprenticeship, he became unemployed, mainly due to his commitment to the arbitrary entrepreneurship. In 1928 Nöldner joined the Communist Youth Association and also became a member of the KPD . He headed the KJVD group in the Görlitz district and was a member of the management of the KJVD Berlin-Kreuzberg Südost.

From 1933 he worked illegally in a KPD cell in the Southeast sub-district, was therefore arrested for the first time in 1935 and sentenced to three years in prison in June 1936. By the end of 1938 he passed through the detention centers in Luckau , Esterwegen and Aschendorfer Moor II . After his release in 1938, he worked for the Erwin Auert company in Weißensee . From here, Nöldner made contact with the group around Robert Uhrig and acted as a liaison to other companies. In 1944, Erwin Nöldner was won over by Anton Saefkow to set up armed defense groups. In July 1944 he was arrested again because of his constant activities against the Hitler regime and - despite a petition for clemency from the entire workforce of his company - he was sentenced to death by the People's Court on September 19, 1944, together with Bernhard Almstadt and Arthur Weisbrodt , and sentenced to death on November 6, 1944 executed in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.

Erwin Nöldner was married to Lucie, b. Kolboske, and had a son, who later became the GDR national soccer player Jürgen Nöldner .

Honors

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , a main street in Rummelsburg, the former Prinz-Albert-Straße, already known at times as Erwin-Nöldner-Straße, was officially called Nöldnerstraße from July 31, 1947 .

The space between the school ensemble and the entrance to the S-Bahn, which was previously unmarked or was also called Lindenplatz by the residents, was named Nöldnerplatz , as was the connected S-Bahn station. The area of ​​the former Portlandstraße was included in Nöldnerplatz after 1958.

On the former home of the Nöldner family, government agencies of the GDR had a commemorative plaque affixed with the following inscription in the 1970s:

The anti-fascist resistance fighter Erwin Nöldner lived here,
born April 29, 1913
executed November 6, 1944

This metal plaque was stolen after 1990. The Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV had a replacement plaque made of plastic (40 x 27 cm), which was unveiled on May 6, 1994 and honored Erwin Nöldner in a short biography. Since 1996, however, the replacement panel has also disappeared.

At the location of the former company in Berlin-Weißensee where Erwin Nöldner worked, at Rennbahnstraße 3, there used to be a memorial plaque for him, which is no longer there either. A memorial stele for Nöldner and two colleagues who were also executed is located in a parallel street at the northern end of the former factory premises of Erwin Auert in front of the new residential building at Liebermannstraße 30 (formerly Franz-Joseph-Straße):

Our comrades murdered by fascists
Fritz Siedentopf 1944
Gustav Widrinna 1943
Erwin Nöldner 1944

On May 7, 2010, another memorial stele was unveiled on Nöldnerplatz in Berlin-Rummelsburg , which cost 10,000 euros and was financed by donations. The Lieser company designed and manufactured a metal plaque on a granite stone to commemorate the resistance in the Rummelsburger Kiez against National Socialism. In addition to Erwin Nöldner, the following combatants were also honored by name: Hans Krüger , Wilhelm Martinke (born October 12, 1909 in Berlin ; † January 30, 1945 shot in the Sonnenburg prison), Walter Riedel († 1939) and Käthe and Felix Tucholla .

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, page 32ff
  • Typewritten biography in the local history museum Lichtenberg (unpublished)

Web links

Commons : Erwin Nöldner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Memorial stone commemorates Rummelsburg workers resistance , press release of the BA Lichtenberg from April 26, 2010; Retrieved June 23, 2010