Hans Schulz (resistance fighter)

Hans Schulz (born July 27, 1898 in Berlin ; † April 20, 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden prison ) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi system and a victim of Nazi war justice.

Stumbling block for Hans Schulz

Life and activity

After attending primary school, Schulz was trained as a lathe operator. After the First World War , he went on a journey. During the time of the Weimar Republic , apart from his work as a sports manager for the Fichte Nord workers' sports association, Schulz did not make any political appearances. Since 1929 he was married to Erna Paul. The marriage produced a daughter.

In 1930 Schulz became chairman of the works council of the Worthingen company in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. After disagreements between him and the management, he went to the Soviet Union as a skilled worker in the same year , where he lived in Moscow and Samara . In 1934 he returned to Germany and from then on worked as a lathe operator at the Ludwig Loewe company in Berlin-Moabit.

In 1944 Schulz was won over by the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization , a communist-oriented resistance group against the Nazi rule, to participate in the opposition activities it carried out against the National Socialist dictatorship: for a few months he distributed illegal pamphlets that spread turned against the Hitler regime, and passed on the regime compromising information that he had learned from listening to foreign news channels. Together with Kurt Winkler , he also tried to obtain weapons for possible violent actions.

Schulz was finally arrested on September 27, 1944. He was brought to the prison in Berlin-Plötzensee as a remand prisoner and on December 1, 1944 he was charged with preparing for high treason before the People's Court . At the meeting on February 2, 1945, chaired by Martin Stier , he was found guilty and sentenced to death . On April 20, 1945, he was executed together with Friedrich Klemstein in the Brandenburg-Görden prison .

The renaming of Reinickendorfer General-Woyna-Straße in 1946 to Hans-Schulz-Straße was withdrawn in 1949. Since March 6, 2009, a stumbling block that was laid in front of Schulz's last house at Ernststrasse 94 has been a reminder of Schulz's life and execution.

literature

• Ursel Hochmuth: Illegal KPD and "Free Germany" movement in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945: Biographies and testimonies from the resistance organization around Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein . 1998, p. 233.

Web links

• Short biography at Stolpersteine-Berlin