Friedrich Broede

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Friedrich Broede , also Bröde (born June 18, 1890 in Braunsberg ( East Prussia ), † March 19, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German worker and communist . In 1934 he was sentenced to death as an accomplice in the so-called " Bülowplatz Trial " for the murder of two police officers in 1931 and died in prison.

Broede became a member of the SPD in 1911 , joined the USPD in 1918 and joined the KPD in 1920 . Towards the end of the Weimar Republic he headed the fighting and defense organization of the KPD, the "Proletarian Self-Protection", in the Berlin-Wedding subdistrict . At the same time he was employed as a caretaker or security guard in the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus , the Berlin headquarters of the KPD. After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he continued to work illegally for the KPD. He was arrested by the SA on July 16, 1933 at around 9 am and taken to the "Schwedenkeller", an interrogation room of the SA, which was notorious for the mistreatment carried out there. Even before the prisoner was handed over to the police the next day, SA Storm Leader Albrecht Kubick pressed him from detailed statements about what was going on at Bülowplatz. Broede also indicated the KPD's hiding places for weapons to the police. In June 1934 he was brought to trial with 14 other accused in the trial of the murders on Bülowplatz . After the police investigations and the taking of evidence in court, Broede had alerted several groups of the "proletarian self-protection" at the suggestion of Hans Kippenberger in order to cover the murderers. Like Michael Klause and Max Matern , he was sentenced to death as an accomplice who knew, approved and wanted the murder plan . A request for revision was rejected on December 17, 1934.

Broede was killed in prison. According to some sources, he was beaten to death. According to others, he took his own life. His son Paul (* 1912) went to the Soviet Union , where he lived in Rostov . There he was arrested in 1937 on charges of espionage and extradited to Germany in February 1940. So his track is lost.

literature

  • History workshop of the Berlin association of former participants in the anti-fascist resistance, those persecuted by the Nazi regime and survivors (BV VdN) eV (ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Vol. 1. Trafo, Berlin 2004, p. 240.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan König: The Bülowplatz Trial against Erich Mielke - From the handling of the judiciary with (their) history. In: Helge Grabitz, Klaus Bästlein u. Johannes Tuchel (ed.): The normality of crime. Balance sheet and perspectives of research on the national socialist violent crimes. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, p. 512, 506.
  2. ^ Kripo report on the investigation into the Anlauf / Lenck murder (September 25, 1933). In: Jochen von Lang: Erich Mielke. A German career . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 1993, pp. 217f.
  3. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : The GDR State Security. Development, structures, fields of action . Publishing house Wiss. u. Politics, Cologne 1989, p. 214.
  4. ↑ History workshop of the Berlin association of former participants in the anti-fascist resistance, those persecuted by the Nazi regime and survivors (BV VdN) eV (ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Vol. 1. Trafo, Berlin 2004, p. 240.
  5. ↑ Wilfriede Otto: Erich Mielke - biography. The rise and fall of a chekist. K. Dietz, Berlin 2000, p. 43f .; Götz Aly: power - mind - madness. Continuities of German Thought. Argon, Berlin 1997, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Hans Schafranek: Between the NKVD and the Gestapo. The extradition of German and Austrian anti-fascists from the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany 1937-1941 . ISP-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M 1990, pp. 80, 131.
personal data
SURNAME Broede, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bröde, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunsberg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1935
Place of death Berlin