Fritz Plön
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
- Resistance fighter against the Nazi regime Fritz Plön. (Cemetery: Waldfriedhof Oberschöneweide) .
- Fritz Plön on the website of the BdA Köpenick.
- Plön line. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaupert's street guide through Berlin
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Illustration of the memorial plaque and brief information on the murdered
- ^ New Germany , May 27, 1975.
personal data | |
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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 |