Hans-Georg Mannaberg

Hans-Georg Mannaberg (born December 24, 1912 in Rixdorf , † August 18, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

The typesetter Mannaberg belonged to the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in Berlin during the Weimar Republic . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he took part in the communist resistance struggle and worked closely with Hilde Jadamowitz , Werner Steinbrink and Hans-Georg Vötter . Mannaberg was arrested in 1938 and spent a year and a half in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After his release, he and his friends continued the illegal activity. After the outbreak of World War II , he used his work in a printing company to procure printing types and paper. The group made sticky notes with the slogan " Hitler leads us into the mass grave!" These sticky notes were distributed at workplaces and in telephone booths , as well as attached to walls and fences.

In connection with the action by the Herbert Baum group against the Nazi propaganda exhibition “ The Soviet Paradise ”, Hans-Georg Mannaberg was arrested in 1942, sentenced to death and executed.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 523.
• Margot Pikarski: Youth in the Berlin Resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1978, p. 144.