Fritz Lesch

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Fritz Lesch (born March 16, 1898 , † February 12, 1937 in Spain) was a German sports teacher, communist and resistance fighter .

Life

During the First World War , Fritz Lesch was recruited for the German Navy. In November 1918 Lesch was stationed in Kiel and, as a sailor, was one of the active participants in the November Revolution . In 1919 he became a member of the KPD . Lesch became one of the most important functionaries of the German workers' sports movement . Lesch became a member of the workers' swimming club Vorwärts at an early age , and later at ASV Fichte. Until 1933 he was secretary of the Western European Office of the Red Sports International .

Because of his illegal anti-fascist activities for the Reich leadership of the Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit , he had to flee Germany in 1934 . In order to continue the fight against fascism , he went to Spain in 1936 to support the republican government against the putschists . Fritz Lesch became the commander of a tank unit of the Interbrigades and died in combat in 1937.

Honors

literature

  • Günther Fuchs: hours of probation. In memoriam Bernhard Almstadt, Fritz Lesch, Ernst Schneller, Heinz Steyer ; Berlin 1971
  • Red athletes in the anti-fascist resistance. Volume 1. Biographical information about Ernst Grube, Bernhard Almstadt, Werner Seelenbinder, Fritz Lesch and Paul Zobel. Federal Executive of the DTSB of the GDR (publisher); Berlin 1978
  • Torsten Kupfer: Workers' athletes against fascism. The fighting community for red sports unit in Leipzig 1933 to 1935. With an excursus on the development of the views of the Communist Party of Germany and the fighting community for red sports unit on the creation of the anti-fascist sports unit front 1933 to 1935. Diploma thesis Leipzig 1988
  • Lesch, Fritz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Small encyclopedia of physical culture and sport . Verlag Enzyklopädie Leipzig, Leipzig 1960, p. 598 .
  2. Berlin-Chemie Adlershof website , accessed on January 13, 2015.