Felix Bobek
Felix Julius Bobek (born August 21, 1898 in Prague , † January 22, 1938 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German physical chemist, communist and technician in the BB apparatus (operational reporting), the KPD's industrial espionage .
Life
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Felix Bobek studied physics in Munich and Berlin. From 1921 to 1924 he was a doctoral student in the Hahn / Meitner department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and received his doctorate in 1925 under Otto Hahn . In 1926 he married Gertrud Denner . Felix Bobek then worked in a test laboratory at Osram . In the summer of 1933 he was released because of his Jewish origins.
During his studies he joined the Naturefriends Youth of Germany and went on many hikes. The contacts he made in this way led him to become a member of the KPD in 1932 . One of his political friends was in particular Wilhelm Bahnik , the head of the BB apparatus in the AM apparatus responsible for operational reports , the defense service of the KPD. Bobek became the technical assistant to the deputy head of the BB apparatus Ewald Jahnen . Analogous to the photochemical process that Fritz Lange developed in London together with Friedrich Georg Houtermans , Bobek found a technical possibility to reduce entire pages of a newspaper to the size of postage stamps and in this way to send important information out of Germany.
Felix Bobek was arrested in May 1935. On October 14, 1935, he managed to escape from custody. He was able to hide in the vicinity of Berlin for two weeks and was then arrested again. He spent ten months on death row in Plötzensee prison , working on a treatise on dialectics in physics. Shortly after the completion of this scientific study, he was beheaded in the courtyard of the institution.
His ashes were buried in the Marzahn Park Cemetery.
literature
- Siegfried Grundmann: Felix Bobek - chemist in the KPD's secret apparatus (1932–1935). Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2004
- Siegfried Grundmann: The secret apparatus of the KPD in the sights of the Gestapo - the BB department. Functionaries, officials, informers and spies. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02113-9 . High treason betrayed twice . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 10, 2009; review
- Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, Volume 1, pp. 131-133
- Gertrud Bobek: memories of my life. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 1998, ISBN 3-910074-93-6
- Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 .
- Bobek, Felix . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Bobek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Felix Bobek at www.stolpersteine-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Research on radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry: The Hahn / Meitner department (s) and their international contacts ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 891 kB)
- ↑ Memorial for the victims of fascism at the Marzahner Friedhof Wiesenburger Weg ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bobek, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bobek, Felix Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter and physical chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1938 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |