Heinrich Bartsch

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Heinrich Bartsch (born September 13, 1906 in Gelsenkirchen ; † October 11, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

Heinrich Bartsch grew up in the Ruhr area . He joined the German Metalworkers' Association and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1928 he moved to Hennigsdorf . Here he worked as a furnace assistant in the rolling mill . When the rolling mills decided to go on a 100-day strike in 1928/29 , he was elected to the strike leadership. As a result, he was laid off and was unemployed. From 1931 to 1934 he was employed as a warehouse manager at the Soviet trade agency in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

After the seizure of power of the Nazi party in 1933, he led on behalf of his party to resistance groups in Berlin districts. In Hennigsdorf he put anti-fascist slogans on walls and walls. He also participated in the production of illegal newspapers and leaflets. After him, the Gestapo had arrested, he was in front of a Superior Court accused and to three years ' imprisonment convicted. When he was released from prison in 1939, the Gestapo sent him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Here he was employed in the office. In October 1942 he was appointed camp elder . He was relieved of this position on April 28, 1944, and on October 11, 1944, he was shot with 26 German and French prisoners for "attempted mutiny and incitement".

Heinrich Bartsch was married. Together with his wife Elisabeth, whom he married in 1929, he had a son.

memory

  • A Heinz-Bartsch-Strasse in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg reminds of him.
  • A stumbling block for Heinrich Bartsch in Hennigsdorf, Marwitzer Strasse 44, was laid by action artist Gunter Demnig .
  • There is a memorial stone with his name on the cemetery in Hennigsdorf.

literature

  • Life pictures. Personalities in the history of Hennigsdorf , ed. from the Hennigsdorf History Association, Hennigsdorf 2000.
  • Günther Morsch (Ed.): Murder and mass murder in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1936–1945 , Metropol, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-936411-93-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinrich Bartsch on the Kreuzberg memorial plaque for victims of the Nazi regime
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartsch, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter

against National Socialism

DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1944
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp