Hans Christoffers

Hans Christoffers (born September 24, 1905 , † January 1, 1942 in Wietzendorf ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

After attending primary school, Christoffers learned the trade of ship carpenter . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was involved in the Weimar Republic against the emergence of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he continued his resistance. In doing so, he came into contact with the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen resistance group , which exercised solidarity with foreign forced laborers and organized armaments sabotage . When these activities became known, the Gestapo also arrested Christoffers and took him to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. During his amnesty for the “ Führer birthday ” in April 1939, he was released with others. He returned to Hamburg and found a job in the firm Arthur Crone & Co. Christoffers and his comrades met again for illegal meetings in the studio above the restaurant "Tusculum" on Rödigsmarkt , where they exchanged materials and about recruiting further colleagues for the anti-fascist movement spoke. In the autumn of 1941 Christoffers was drafted into the Wehrmacht and, after completing basic military training, was sent to the Wietzendorf prisoner of war camp , where Soviet prisoners of war had to live under inhumane conditions: in holes in the ground that were covered with tarpaulin and with extremely little food allocation. Christoffers tried there to ease the lot of these prisoners and to get them more food. However, when a typhus epidemic broke out among them, he too became infected and died from it.

literature

• Detlef Garbe: The KPD in the Resistance , p. 558
• Klaus Bästlein: Hitler's Defeat , p. 65f.

Web links

• Report on the Wietzendorf camp. Retrieved August 19, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.unter-hamburg.de/kommunistischer-widerstan.369.0.html Retrieved August 19, 2011