Fritz Plön

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Fritz Plön (born December 3, 1906 in Berlin-Oberschöneweide ; † August 28, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Plön attended the Kepler School in Oberschöneweide until 1920 and then began an apprenticeship as a boat builder , which he was unable to complete for health reasons. He worked as a farm laborer near Weimar for some time and returned to Berlin in 1926.

After completing a course, he worked as a welder at the Oberspree cable works . In 1927 he joined the KJVD and later the KPD . Among other things, Plön led the children's and youth group of the swimming club “Vorwärts”.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he and others organized money collections for the illegal Red Aid in Germany . In the cable plant Oberspree Fritz Ploen led an illegal resistance group. There had been contacts with the resistance organization around Robert Uhrig since 1938 .

Plön was arrested by the Gestapo on February 4, 1942 in the course of the uncovering of the Uhrig organization, along with Franz Mett , his partner Elfriede Tygör and other comrades in arms and imprisoned in the Landsberg court prison. The “ People's Court ” sentenced him to death on July 7, 1944. Plön was executed on August 28, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.

His urn, like the other resistance fighters, was buried in the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery.

Honors

  • In his honor, Luisenstrasse in Oberschöneweide was renamed Plönzeile in 1948 .
  • At the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery, to the right of the main path, there is a tomb-like memorial stone for Plön, his partner Tygör and other Nazi victims: Erich Busse , Wilhelm Firl , Fritz Kirsch , Günther Ratajczak and Bernhard Sobottka .
  • At the former Oberspree cable works in Wilhelminenhofstrasse 76/77 in Oberschöneweide, a memorial was erected in 1960 for the members of the cable works murdered by the National Socialists. In addition to Plön, the resistance fighters Grete Walter , Paul von Essen , Judith Auer and Arthur Illgen are commemorated here.
  • In 1975 the youth hostel at Scharnweberstrasse 24 (Berlin-Oberschöneweide) was named.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar : Berlin communists in the fight against fascism 1936 to 1942. Robert Uhrig and comrades . Dietz, Berlin 1981, passim.
  • Hanne Job (epilogue): Fight for the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters . 1st edition, unchanged reprint. Verlag Neuer Weg, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-88021-180-9 , p. 673.
  • 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, p. 68 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaupert's street guide through Berlin
  2. ↑ Iris Fischer: Historical tours between Dahme and Spree. From the German Empire to the Nazi era. No.1, Treptow-Köpenick (Flyer) . (PDF) Friends of a documentation and meeting center for Nazi forced labor in Berlin-Schöneweide e. V. Berlin 2008.
  3. ↑ Illustration of the memorial plaque and brief information on the murdered
  4. ^ New Germany , May 27, 1975.
personal data
SURNAME Plön, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel