Franz Reetz

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Franz Reetz (born March 23, 1884 in Bärenbusch ; † April 23 or April 24, 1945 in Neuengamme Concentration Camp ) was a German inland boatman , communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme Concentration Camps, and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Reetz came from a family who lived in the area of ​​the Elbe lowlands . After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a machinist for inland shipping . Early on he organized the union , a member has been in the trade union International Union of Seamen and Harbor Workers (ISH) (International Association of sailors and dockworkers) and was temporarily a member of the German national leadership. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emerging National Socialism .

With his colleague Ernst Fiering and his wife, he formed a resistance cell at the Stülcken shipyard where he was employed. After this activity became known to the Gestapo , he was arrested in 1935, sentenced by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court on June 13, 1935 to two years ' imprisonment for " preparation for treason " and then sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1936 . In 1937 he was released from there.

After the war began, he joined the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group , which assisted the persecuted and supported foreign forced laborers . Franz Reetz became the contact point for prisoners on remand who had been granted leave by the public prosecutor after the bombing raid on the prison in 1943, but who took advantage of this to escape underground. When the Gestapo found out about this, he was arrested again in December 1944, together with Fritz Bauke , Erna Behling , Ernst Engel , Ernst and Marie Fiering , Albert Immig , Sinaida Strelzowa , Frieda Wischnewski and Paul and Margit Zinke . Reetz was transferred from the Fuhlsbüttel police prison together with these co-defendants to the Neuengamme concentration camp and hanged there with Ernst Fiering without trial .

Franz Reetz was married to Anna Schulz and had five children with her.

Stumbling block Franz Reetz

Honor

The action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in memory of Franz Reetz's last address on Vierländer Damm at the corner of Lindleystraße ( Hamburg-Mitte , Rothenburgsort ) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , accessed on September 12, 2011.
  2. ^ Gertrud Meyer: Night over Hamburg. Reports and Documents 1933–1945 , Frankfurt 1971, p. 99: fragmentary excerpt , accessed on September 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Stumbling blocks in Hamburg , accessed on September 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Reetz, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bear bush
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945 or April 24, 1945
Place of death Neuengamme concentration camp