Frida Wesolek
Frida Wesolek born Hübner (born September 3, 1887 in Sommerfeld , Niederlausitz ; † August 5, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Frida Wesolek was a seamstress by profession. Like her father Emil Hübner , she was originally a member of the SPD . In 1919 she joined the KPD together with her father and husband Stanislaus Wesolek .
From the late 1920s, the three worked for the secret apparatus of the Communist International (Comintern), which was increasingly merged with the state Soviet intelligence services in the course of the 1930s . This gave them contact with the resistance groups around Adam Kuckhoff , Wilhelm Guddorf and John Sieg as well as with the Gerhard Kegel / Ilse Stöbe group .
The Hübner / Wesolek family had technical equipment for illegal organization as well as functional radio devices. In contrast to Hans Coppi and Karl Böhme , they were trained to use these devices. Because of the withdrawn military front and the war-related disorganization in the Soviet Union, their contact with the Soviet Union also broke off in the summer of 1941.
In the summer of 1942 they found shelter for German communists who were returning from the Soviet Union as parachutists , including in their arbor in Rudow , and in the vicinity of resistance members from the Berlin group of the Red Orchestra . As a result, they got caught up in the wave of arrests that began in early September 1942.
In the course of the following month Frida Wesolek, Emil Hübner, Stanislaus Wesolek and their two sons Walter Wesolek and Johannes Wesolek were arrested.
Frida Wesolek was sentenced to death together with Stanislaw Wesolek in the spring of 1943 by the Reich Court Martial under the prosecutor Manfred Roeder . The sentence was carried out on August 5, 1943, together with the death sentences against Adam Kuckhoff and many others from the Berlin Red Orchestra at the Plötzensee execution site.
literature
- Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as anti-fascist resistance - with an introduction by Heinrich Scheel . results publisher: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0
- Gilles Perrault : L'Orchestre Rouge (various editions and editions)
- Leopold Trepper : The truth. Autobiography (various editions and editions)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dead of the Red Chapel ( Memento from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the German Resistance Memorial Center
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wesolek, Frida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hübner, Frida (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sommerfeld , Lower Lusatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |