Fritz Bischoff (resistance fighter)

Fritz Bischoff (born July 1, 1900 in Rixdorf , † May 3, 1945 in the Lübeck Bay ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism and war.

Life

After finishing school, Fritz Bischoff joined the socialist workers' youth movement, which was based on Karl Liebknecht . When it was founded he also became a member of the Spartacus group and in 1919 a founding member of the KPD .

From 1920 to 1930 he worked for the Soviet trade agency in Berlin and Hamburg. In 1923 he married Charlotte Wielepp . From 1925 he worked in the agitprop department of the KPD district leadership in Wasserkante and dealt with issues of cultural policy. In 1930 he was elected chairman of the Interest Group for Workers' Culture (IfA); later he also took over the chairmanship of the Association of Proletarian Freethinkers .

In autumn 1933, Bischoff was appointed political secretary of the KPD district leadership Hessen-Frankfurt by the KPD Central Committee and organized the political resistance against National Socialism in this region. He also made contact with social democratic and other resistance groups in order to develop a united front against National Socialism and war.

Stumbling stone in Weisestrasse 9 in Berlin-Neukölln

In September 1934, he was from the Gestapo arrested and an eight-year prison sentence convicted, he in Kassel-Wehlheiden dismounted. After the prison sentence had expired, he was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then to the Neuengamme concentration camp . In April 1945, he and almost 8,000 other prisoners were driven from Neuengamme to Lübeck Bay and loaded onto the Cap Arcona . Bischoff drowned when the Cap Arcona sank after a British air raid.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, Volume 1, pp. 121-123
• Bischoff, Fritz . 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

• Fritz Bischoff at www.berlin.friedparks.de (accessed October 15, 2018).
• Stolpersteine ​​in Berlin - Fritz Bischoff at www.stolpersteine-berlin.de (accessed on October 15, 2018).