Fritz Kirsch
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Fritz Kirsch (born March 5, 1903 in Johannisthal near Berlin ; † April 30, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Kirsch came from an originally social democratic family . The parents joined the KPD after the First World War . Fritz Kirsch became a member of the KJVD in November 1920 and later joined the KPD. His brothers Franz and Otto and his sister Helene also became members of the KJVD and the KPD. In 1924 Fritz Kirsch became a member of the newly founded Red Front Fighter League . Kirsch, a machinist by profession, worked as a works council in AEG - Transformatorenwerk Oberspree and was a district councilor of the KPD in Berlin-Treptow .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Kirsch took part in the communist resistance. In July 1933 he was arrested by the SA and taken to the notorious “Brown House” (today's Friedrich Wolf Library in Johannisthal), where he was severely mistreated. The SA believed they had arrested his brother Otto, who was the head of the KJVD in Johannisthal and known by the nickname “Plum”. Fritz Kirsch was imprisoned in Berlin-Plötzensee and Brandenburg until October 1933 and after his release continued illegal party work in Adlershof and Niederschöneweide . When war broke out in September 1939, he was arrested again and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was murdered on April 30, 1940.
Honors
- The Westendstraße in Oberschönweide was in April 1948 Fritz-Kirsch-line renamed.
- A memorial for victims of National Socialism in Johannisthal (Sterndamm / corner of Heuberger Weg) from 1949 commemorates Fritz Kirsch and his brother Franz as well as seven other Nazi victims from Johannisthal ( Fritz Bergau , Willi Heinze , Günther Kobs , Johannes Sasse , Hans Schmidt , Otto Springborn and Eduard Zachert ).
- At the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery to the right of the main path there is a memorial stone for Kirsch and six other Nazi victims: Erich Busse , Wilhelm Firl , Günther Ratajczak , Bernhard Sobottka and Elfriede Tygör .
- In June 2005 a stumbling block for Fritz Kirsch was laid in Wassermannstrasse 69 (Adlershof) .
literature
- Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow (= series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 , No. 9). German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1995, p. 115f.
- Ulrike Puvogel, Martin Stankowski: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. Documentation II: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2000, pp. 68f.
Web links
- Fritz Kirsch on the website of the BdA Köpenick.
- Fritz Kirsch on the “Stumbling blocks in Berlin” page.
- Fritz Kirsch line. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirsch, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD) and resistance fighters against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Johannisthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1940 |
| Place of death | Sachsenhausen concentration camp |