Fritz Traskowski

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Fritz Traskowski (* 29. July 1909 , † 6. August 1987 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German communist resistance fighters against the Nazis , prisoner in the concentration camp Lichtenburg , VVN - activists and functionaries of the National Front of the GDR .

Life

Traskowski joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) at the age of 21 and was active against the emergence of National Socialism . He became political director of the KPD sub-district Heldrungen . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he illegally continued his resistance to the Nazi regime , but was arrested and deported to the Lichtenburg concentration camp . In a reminder report as a contemporary witness , he described how he and 500 other prisoners were brought in columns from Dommitzsch via Prettin to the Lichtenburg. He later commented on his concentration camp experiences:

“ The firm will not to let the bandits get us down, our worldview, the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism , the upbringing of the party and finally our class consciousness gave us the strength to withstand all tribulations. "

During the Second World War Traskowski was pressed into the penalty battalion 999 .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he was a member of the re-established KPD and, since 1946, of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Since 1947 he was state secretary of the VVN regional association Saxony-Anhalt . From 1952 to 1953 he was chairman of the VVN district association in Halle . He then held the position of First Secretary of the Hall District Committee of the National Front.

Fritz Traskowski was married to his wife Klare. A few weeks after the death of her husband, on October 7, 1987, she accepted the Karl Marx Order .

Honors

  • On August 15, 1989, the youth brigade prefabrication from the Mansfeld combine received the honorary name of the anti-fascist Fritz Traskowski, announced the Hallesche Zeitung Freiheit . The young people had maintained close contact with the wife of the KPD functionary.

Publications

  • On the history of the labor movement in the Artern / H. 1. Biographies, memory reports, documents [1981]

literature

  • Rolf Helm, Karl-Heinz suffering: Against fascism and war. The KPD in the Halle-Merseburg district 1933-1945 , Halle 1983, p. 115
  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 583

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Schulze: “Special train to Lichtenburg” - prisoner transports to the concentration camp in HALLISCHE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TIME HISTORY 2007/1 (PDF; 2.2 MB) Retrieved July 23, 2011
  2. ^ Rolf Helm, Karl-Heinz suffering: Against fascism and war. The KPD in the Halle-Merseburg district 1933-1945 , Halle 1983, p. 115
  3. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=ksta/XPage&atype=ksArtikel&aid=1246046536155&template=Druckfassung&si=994341334665 Retrieved July 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Traskowski, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter and VVN activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1909
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1987
Place of death Halle (Saale)