Hein Bretschneider

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Hein Bretschneider (born December 12, 1904 , † July 6, 1944 in Hamburg ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Bretschneider learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of carpenter . He joined the KPD and was active against the emergence of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he and his comrades continued the resistance work by distributing educational material and discussing the necessary resistance. This happened in the studio above the “ Tusculum ” restaurant on Rödingsmarkt . When the Gestapo found out about this activity, he and others of his comrades were arrested and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . These included u. a. Robert Abshagen and Hans Christoffers . When they were occasionally released from an amnesty on “ Fuehrer's birthday ” in April 1939, that was not the end of their resistance work. All three found work in the same company, Arthur Crone & Co. , in a construction crew that was nicknamed the “ABC column” after members Abshagen, Bretschneider and Christoffers. This continuation of the resistance was also uncovered, Bretschneider was tried before the People's Court in Hamburg, sentenced to death and executed in the Hamburg remand prison .

literature

  • Detlef Garbe : The KPD in the resistance. P. 558
  • Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group. Report on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the waterfront during World War II. Berlin 1959, after p. 80

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.unter-hamburg.de/kommunistischer_widerstan.369.0.html Retrieved August 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bretschneider, Hein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1904
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1944
Place of death Hamburg