Hans Berger (resistance fighter)
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Hans Berger (born February 17, 1916 in Berlin ; † February 18, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ), pseudonym Fred , was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
The son of a Jewish tailor from Poland worked as a laboratory assistant and, like his older sister Hilde Berger, joined the Trotskyist Left Opposition of the KPD (LO) in 1932 . After the NSDAP came to power , Berger was imprisoned for six months for the first time in February 1933. After his release, Berger acted illegally as a member of the Reich leadership and the Berlin-Brandenburg district leadership, the organization now called IKD . As the central imperial courier , Berger was responsible, for example, for the transport of illegal publications of the organization and for the contact between the individual branches of the organization.
Due to the infiltration of the Hamburg IKD group by the Gestapo , Berger was arrested on November 2, 1935 in Hamburg and severely tortured in Berlin's Columbia House . 1937 to eight years in prison convicted, Berger was briefly in Plötzensee and then in Brandenburg-Gorden held. In autumn 1942 Berger was one of the 14,700 prisoners of the Nazi state who, at the instigation of Justice Minister Thierack , were handed over to the SS for murder. Hans Berger was deported to Auschwitz at the end of December 1942, where he was murdered on February 18, 1943 together with Heinz Leidersdorf , a member of the IKD leadership .
Web links
literature
- Peter Berens: Trotskyists against Hitler . Cologne, Neuer ISP-Verlag, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89900-121-1 , (v. A. P. 109f and p. 196)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1943 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |