Heinrich Czerkus
Heinrich Czerkus (born October 27, 1894 , Minge, Heydekrug district , Memelland (today Minė , Lithuania), † late March / early April 1945 in Dortmund ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
The trained locksmith Heinrich Czerkus was already active in the KPD during the Weimar Republic and was elected to the Dortmund city council for the party in 1933. Professionally, he worked for today's football -Bundesligisten Borussia Dortmund as a club waiting on the then central club sports field White meadow until it by the Red Stadium earth was replaced 1937th
After the National Socialists came to power, Heinrich Czerkus produced and distributed illegal publications of the communist resistance . He was even able to produce some of these on Borussia Dortmund's duplicating machine. Heinrich Czerkus escaped attempts by the Gestapo to get hold of him until shortly before the end of the Second World War .
Heinrich Czerkus was then arrested by the Gestapo as part of a wave of arrests directed in 1945 against resistance fighters, forced laborers and deserters. Between March 7 and April 12, 1945, the Gestapo murdered him and around 300 other resistance fighters, deserters and forced laborers as part of the Good Friday murders . During the last weeks of the war, the victims were interned in a reception camp on the premises of the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein and then murdered in Rombergpark , on the railway site between Hörde and Berghofen and in Bittermark .
memory
Since 2004, the “Heinrich-Czerkus-Gedächtnislauf” of the Friends of Nature Dortmund-Kreuzviertel has been held annually in Dortmund to commemorate and honor . This leads from the Rote Erde stadium to the Bittermark memorial and is supported by the Dortmund fan project and the Heinrich Czerkus BVB fan club. In 2011, the old international of BVB Siggi Held was one of the supporters of the run. In 2009 a memorial plaque for Heinrich Czerkus was inaugurated in the Rote Erde stadium. BVB has also been supporting the run since 2012 and a good 500 participants were welcomed on Good Friday 2012, BVB President Reinhard Rauball gave the starting signal. According to him, a street in the new development area Hohenbuschei in the district of Dortmund Brackel near the training ground of the current was football -Bundesligisten Borussia Dortmund named.
See also
literature
- Gerd Kolbe: BVB in the Nazi era . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89533-363-8 .
Web links
- Call for the Heinrich Czerkus Memorial Run
- Heinrich Czerkus in the Dortmund memory portal
- Forewords from ex-Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Dr. Gerhard Langemeyer, Lord Mayor of Dortmund and Dr. Gerd Niebaum, former president of BV Borussia Dortmund 09 on the book by Gerd Kolbe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Heinrich-Czerkus-Gedächtnislauf established itself in Dortmund ; bvb.de of April 7, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czerkus, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against the NS |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1894 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between March 7, 1945 and April 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dortmund |