Franz Wehrstedt

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Franz Wehrstedt (born June 18, 1899 in Eldena ; † July 2, 1933 in Wieck ) was a German communist who was murdered by SA people .

Franz Wehrstedt came from a family of farm workers and had to help maintain the family on a farm as a child. In 1917 he was drafted into the military and joined the heavy field artillery in France during the First World War . After returning from the war, he joined the agricultural workers' association in Eldena in 1918 .

During the Kapp Putsch , Wehrstedt took part in a victorious battle between farm workers against coup volunteers at Wusterhusen / Brünzow , which ended with the disarmament of the putschists. Wehrstedt was dismissed by his landlord and, on his advice, excluded from the agricultural workers' association. He then joined the Greifswald "industrial association for the building trade" and found employment in civil engineering and forestry. In 1924 Wehrstedt became a member of the KPD in Greifswald . 1925 was the initiator of the establishment of a local group of the Red Front Fighters Association in Greifswald. In 1927 he founded the local KPD group in Eldena. In 1930 he became a member of the Kampfbund against Fascism .

On the morning of July 2, 1933, the Eldena SA man Bendt and another SA man knocked Franz Wehrstedt, who was fishing in the Ryck, unconscious with an iron rod and drowned him in the river. The murder went unpunished.

After 1945 a path in Eldena was named after Franz Wehrstedt and a memorial stone was erected. In Wusterhusen a memorial stone commemorates the fighting during the Kapp Putsch.

literature

  • Alexander Schott and Lutz Mohr : Greifswald Eldena and the Hilda monastery . Greifswald 1977, p. 26f.