Georg Dimentstein

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Georg Dimentstein (born January 6, 1897 in Kirchhain, Niederlausitz , † January 6, 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a Jewish artist, communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Stumbling stone for Georg Dimentstein at Grellstrasse 18, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Georg Dimentstein came from a Jewish family in Niederlausitz, when he was 10 years old his mother died. From 1919 Dimentstein worked as a freelance commercial artist. In 1928 he married Gertrud Lehmann and lived with her in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Grellstrasse 18. Until the professional ban on Jewish artists in 1933, he also exhibited his own pictures. He then earned his living working from home as a commissioned painter for various companies, most recently for Bruns & Stauff GmbH / Vereinigte Graphische Kunstanstalten .

In 1942 Dimentstein joined the group around Hugo Kapteina and Reinhold Hermann for a political exchange of views. Together they supported the goals of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD). In spring 1944 Dimentstein met Anton Saefkow and worked actively in the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization , one of the largest resistance organizations in Germany during the Second World War.

When Dimentstein found out about the arrest of his friends Kapteina and Hermann at the end of July 1944, he was able to warn other members of the group and go into hiding himself. With forged papers made by his friend Gerhard Churfürst in the name of Willi Bonner, he hid with friends and relatives for about six weeks.

Georg Dimentstein was arrested on August 17, 1944, and his wife Gertrud was arrested a day later. According to an agreement between Reich Minister of Justice Otto Georg Thierack and Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , imprisoned Jews were sent to the concentration camp without trial . On January 6, 1945 (the day of his 48th birthday) Georg Dimentstein was shot dead in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of the Reich Security Main Office .

Commemoration

Web links

literature

  • Otto Weidt: Anarchist and Righteous Among the Nations (Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center / Series A: Analyzes and Representations) Hardcover, p. 354.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thierack's report on a meeting with Himmler on September 18, 1942 = Document 654-PS printed by IMT: The Nuremberg Trial against the Major War Criminals ... , fotomech. Reprint Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7735-2521-4 , documents vol. 26, here pp. 201 and 203.
  2. ↑ Ursel Hochmuth : Illegal KPD and movement “Free Germany” in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945. Biographies and testimonials from the resistance organization around Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-933471-08-7 (p. 124, p. 129, p. 234)
  3. ↑ Georg Dimentstein's biography on stolpersteine-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Dimentstein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish artist, communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchhain
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1945
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp