Ewald Funke

Ewald Funke (born July 30, 1905 in Remscheid , † March 4, 1938 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Funke, the son of a cabinet maker, grew up in Remscheid. After training as a commercial clerk, he worked at the Wuppertal employment office until March 1933. In 1919 Funke became a member of the Socialist Proletarian Youth of the USPD , in 1921 of the KJVD .

He was imprisoned in April and May 1933; since August 1933 he worked illegally for the KPD in the Düsseldorf district, a. a. as deputy head of the military policy department, the KPD's intelligence service, in Wuppertal . In the spring of 1934 Funke fled to Amsterdam . In the summer of 1934 he was delegated by the KPD section leadership west to the domestic leadership in Berlin . Funke then went to Prague and led training courses for emigrants until the end of 1934. At the end of 1935 he came to Stuttgart via Zurich as an instructor . Together with Max Stingl , he crossed the German-Swiss border several times. Both helped reorganize the KPD district leadership in Stuttgart, which had been weakened by arrests, and to strengthen the resistance in the armaments factories of Daimler-Benz and Bosch . During his third domestic trip in May 1936, Funke was arrested by the Gestapo together with Stingl near Gmünd . On August 16, 1937, Funke was convicted by the People's Court and executed on March 4, 1938 in Berlin-Plötzensee .

Funke's younger brother Otto was also active in the anti-fascist resistance and later became chairman of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters in the GDR.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 1. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 282-287.
• Ursula Albel, Christian Schott: Persecuted, accused, convicted. Political resistance and oppositional behavior in Wuppertal 1933–45. Documentation of biographical data, proceedings, charges (= persecution and resistance in Wuppertal , vol. 5). Achterland, Bocholt / Bredevoort 2001, ISBN 3-933377-54-4 , p. 29ff.
• 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 August 10, 2011]).

Web links

• Wuppertal union processes