Hans-Georg Voetter

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Hans-Georg-Vötter (1942)

Hans-Georg Vötter (born July 6, 1901 in Leipzig ; † May 11, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Vötter, son of a plumber, learned the profession of typesetter . He joined the KPD in 1920 and was involved in the International Workers Aid (IAH) from 1928 . From 1933 he was a member of the IAH district management Berlin-Brandenburg and headed the Friedrichshain sub-district . In the summer of 1935, Vötter and other members of the IAH at Hellsee in Brandenburg called for the liberation of Ernst Thälmann , who had been in the Moabit remand prison since March 1933 after his arrest by the National Socialists. For participating in this event, Vötter was arrested in June 1935 and sentenced in December 1935 to five years in prison for preparation for high treason.

While Vötter was imprisoned, a communist training group around Werner Schaumann and Karl Kunger met in the Vötter's house . After Vötter was released in July 1940, the training group looked for another meeting point, as Vötter had been under police supervision ever since. Werner Steinbrink , Hilde Jadamowitz and Joachim Franke also joined this group during Vötter's imprisonment . From this training group, the "Franke Group" arose - later referred to as this by the Gestapo. Vötter was involved with Steinbrink, Franke and others on the design for the pamphlet Der Auseg . There were other publications with titles such as The Path to Victory and the leaflet To the German Medical Association .

After an arson attack on the National Socialist propaganda exhibition “ The Soviet Paradise ” on May 18, 1942, in which members of the Franke group and the Baum group were also involved, the members of both groups were arrested within a few days. On February 5, 1943, Vötter was sentenced to death by the “ People's Court ” and executed in Plötzensee in May of the same year . His wife Charlotte was sentenced to seven years in prison for “preparation for high treason” in the same trial.

Honor

Stolperstein , Onkel-Bräsig-Strasse 111, in Berlin-Britz

On November 29, 2013 , a stumbling block was laid in front of his former residence, Berlin-Britz , Onkel-Bräsig-Straße 111, by students from the Fritz-Karsen-Schule .

literature

  • Margot Pikarski : Youth in the Berlin Resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms. 2nd Edition. Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1984, p. 155.
  • Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (ed.): Lexicon of Resistance 1933–1945 . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43861-X , p. 208.
  • Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 8 [T-Z]. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-358-7 , p. 118.
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich. Resistance from the labor movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 , pp. 341 ff., 492 and 495 ff.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Georg Vötter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Vötter on the Stolpersteine page in Berlin .
  2. ↑ DY 55 / V 278/6/1961 in BstU the Federal Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Vötter, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee