Gustav Richter (resistance fighter)
Gustav Richter (born March 27, 1890 in Dresden , † October 27, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a Dresden worker functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Gustav Richter grew up in a working class family. He was a member of the KPD and, during the Weimar Republic , represented the interests of his colleagues as a works council in a small tool and equipment factory in Dresden- Trachenberge . His son Rudolf was born on July 28, 1920. After the seizure of power Gustav Richter was dismissed immediately and was unemployed for several years.
His son Rudolf Richter worked as a script painter and in July 1940 was forced to work in the armaments industry. First he was retrained as a turret turner in the Junkers aircraft and engine works in Dessau and then deployed in the spare parts plant of the Vereinigte Flugmotorenwerke in Leipzig- Markkleeberg . Supported by his father, he did illegal, anti-fascist agitation work. The Gestapo arrested him on October 30, 1941 because of denunciation ; Gustav Richter was also arrested five days later. Both remained in custody for almost a year. In the indictment, Rudolf Richter was accused of having “incited his workmates as a conscript in an armaments factory to help end the war by reducing armament production. He also distributed Marxist books and corrosive records. "Gustav Richter accused the indictment of not having" raised his son differently "and not having encouraged his resistance.
On August 21, Gustav Richter and his son Rudolf were sentenced to death by the 2nd Senate of the “ People's Court ”, chaired by Karl Engert, “for preparing high treason and treason”. On October 27, 1942, the death sentence was carried out on both of them in Berlin-Plötzensee prison . Their symbolic graves are located in the honor grove of the heather cemetery .
Commemoration
On February 15, 1963, Junkersstrasse in Dresden- Trachau was renamed Gustav-Richter-Strasse . On the skyscraper on Albertplatz , a memorial plaque commemorated the anti-fascists on the Dresden tram in GDR times. The inscription on the plaque read: "Keep fighting in your spirit - Paul Gruner , Arno Lade , Paul Schwarze , Gustav Richter, Karl Stein , Arthur Knöfel".
literature
- Gustav Richter . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 62.
- Karl Heinz Jahnke : In one front: young Germans on the side of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War , Brief Military History: Biographies, Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3327007322 , p. 50 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Heinz Jahnke: In a front . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1989, p. 50.
- ^ Karl Heinz Jahnke: Youth in Resistance, 1933–1945 . Library of Resistance. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1985, p. 60 ff.
- ^ White spots in German historiography , interview with Ulrich Sander, Our Time , March 10, 2006.
- ^ Father and son together: Rudolf Richter (1920–1942) . In: The VVN-BdA introduces itself: Resistance. What else . Flyer, p. 1 ( PDF ).
- ^ Karl Heinz Jahnke: Resistance of young people against the Nazi regime and war - To the place of the Munich "White Rose" . In: Detlef Bald (ed.), Wolfgang Huber: “Against the war machine”: War experiences and motives for the resistance of the “White Rose” . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3898614883 , p. 181.
- ↑ Cf. Monika Zorn: Hitler's Victims Killed Twice: West German Final Solution of Antifascism in the Territory of the GDR . Ahriman publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1994, p. 280.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dresden worker functionary and anti-fascist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |