Eugene Sigrist
Eugen Sigrist (born January 25, 1903 in Gemmrigheim , † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Eugen Sigrist came from a family that lived in Luzenberg, (today) a district of Mannheim. Even as a young man he sympathized with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) - without being a member - and campaigned against the rise of National Socialism . Towards the end of the 1920s he joined the KPD and soon became the head of the KPD local group in Luzenberg.
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was sentenced to ten months in prison in 1933 for distributing illegal communist literature . During the Second World War he joined the Lechleiter resistance group. They produced leaflets in which they exposed the Nazi propaganda and called for the fight against the Nazi regime and its war of extermination . Because this activity was very dangerous, contact between the group members could only take place in a small circle in a garden shed. Nevertheless, the Gestapo was able to expose the group, and in February 1942 a broad wave of arrests began, which Eugen Sigrist could not escape either. On May 15, 1942, Lechleiter's group was tried at the People's Court in Mannheim and many of them were sentenced to death. One of them was Sigrist, who was executed by guillotine together with 18 of his colleagues on September 15 in Stuttgart .
Sigrist's remains were transferred to the Anatomical Institute of Heidelberg University with those of other resistance fighters "for research purposes" . On July 22, 1950, a community grave was laid out in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof , where Sigrist and 26 other victims of the Nazi regime were buried. A memorial plaque was attached to the wall. On November 1, 2001, a stele by the artist Günter Braun from Eppelheim installed on the communal grave and a name plaque with the names of the German victims of National Socialism were presented to the public.
memory
- As early as 1945, a square in Mannheim's Schwetzingerstadt was named after Georg Lechleiter. On November 20, 1984, a street in the Schönau district was named after Eugen Sigrist by resolution of the municipal council .
literature
- Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume I, Bonn 1995, p. 58, ISBN 3-89331-208-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://widerstandausstellung.mop.de/ausstellung/die_lechleiter-gruppe_eugen_sigrist.htm
- ↑ https://www.marchivum.de/de/strassennamen/eugen-sigrist-weg
- ^ Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism , website of the VIA MONUMENTUM association
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sigrist, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gemmrigheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1942 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |