Fritz Riedel (resistance fighter)
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Fritz Riedel (born March 1, 1908 in Berlin ; † August 21, 1944 in Brandenburg ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Fritz Riedel was a trained metal caster and an active member of the workers' sports movement (ATSB). After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he joined the resistance group around Robert Uhrig . There he worked underground as a courier to Essen, Hanover and Munich and helped set up resistance cells in southern Germany. The first meeting between Robert Uhrig and Beppo Römers and the instructor of the KPD Central Committee Alfred Kowalke , who had traveled illegally from the Netherlands, took place in his apartment .
In January 1942 Fritz Riedel was drafted into the Wehrmacht. On February 4, 1942, however, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Rathenow and sentenced to death by the People's Court on July 6, 1944 after two years of pre-trial detention. On August 21, 1944, he was beheaded with the guillotine in Brandenburg prison .
Honors
- On his former home until 1942, at Rigaer Strasse 64 ( Friedrichshain ), there was a memorial plaque since 1950, which disappeared in 1992 and was replaced by the Active Museum of Fascism and Resistance in Berlin in 1996 . This also disappeared and was renewed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the murder of Fritz Riedel.
- In Berlin Prenzlauer Berg , Fritz-Riedel-Strasse was named after him, where he lived in 1933.
- The Friedrichshain School that bore his name was renamed after the end of the GDR .
- There is a memorial for Fritz Riedel (together with Kurt Ritter and Willi Heinze ) in the cemetery of the Georgen Parochial Congregation in Boxhagener Strasse in Berlin .
- Fritz Riedel is named on the curtain wall of the Socialist Memorial in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.
- In Gamengrund there has been a memorial stone since 1974 that commemorates the communists Josef Römer , Willy Sachse , Fritz Riedel and Kurt Ritter .
literature
- Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters . Volume 2. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1970, pages 85ff
Web links
- Fritz-Riedel-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- prenzlauerberg-kiez.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riedel, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1944 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg |