Heinz Leidersdorf

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heinz Leidersdorf (born February 26, 1906 in Neuhaus an der Elbe , Bleckede district ; † February 18, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a KPD and later an IKD member as well as a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Heinz Leidersdorf was born in 1906 in Neuhaus an der Elbe , the son of the businessman Hugo Leidersdorf, who committed suicide on November 27, 1933, and his wife Adele Heymann . There he attended elementary school. His older brother died as a soldier in World War I. From 1918 to 1922 he attended grammar school in Lübeck , then the grammar school in Lüneburg , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1924. He then studied biology and chemistry at the Universities of Cologne , Marburg and Hamburg . He completed his studies in Hamburg in 1933. Leidersdorf's further professional career remains somewhat unclear. It is assumed that Heinz Leidersdorf had been trainee lawyer at a Hamburg grammar school since 1932 and was transferred to the Talmud Torah School since 1933 .

In an indictment filed by the Reich Attorney at the People's Court on November 26, 1936, it was noted that Heinz Leidersdorf tried to emigrate to South Africa through the mediation of relatives . Since this plan failed, he is said to have turned to the Jewish career counseling service. Through their mediation he was, according to the indictment, "from October 1934 onwards for a monthly remuneration of RM 40 at a Hamburg Jewish secondary school in Grindelhof" . He also earned his living by giving private lessons. Heinz Leidersdorf was listed under the heading "Teachers who give individual lessons at this school" with nine hours per week.

After Heinz Leidersdorf was arrested as part of the wave of arrests against 80 members of the underground structures of the Hamburg International Communists in Germany (IKD) on November 2, 1935 and transferred to " protective custody " in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , minutes of the school board meeting of November 27, 1935 the following notes:

“Furthermore, the matter of the student trainee Leidersdorf is mentioned, who was arrested by the state police and is accused of high treason. Mr. Leidersdorf was not employed by the school in any way, he was referred to her by the state education authority for pedagogical training. "

Leidersdorf was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp until the end of 1936, after being sentenced to nine years in prison from 1937 to 1943 in the Hamburg prison, then in the Oslebshausen prison near Bremen.

Heinz Leidersdorf was charged, together with the commercial clerk Walter Munter and the typesetter Wilhelm Defert, of preparation for high treason . Heinz Leidersdorf joined the KPD in 1928 and the "Red Student Group" at Hamburg University in 1931 . Within the KPD, he was a cashier in the Eppendorf district and the KPD's shop steward in the student group. In 1931 he was expelled from the KPD as a Trotskyist on charges of “inappropriate party criticism” and joined the Left Opposition of the KPD (LO), from which the International Communists of Germany (IKD) emerged illegally after the NSDAP came to power . Within the IKD, Leidersdorf was part of the Hamburg / Wasserkante district management.

After his mother Adele was deported to Riga on December 6, 1941 at the age of 63 and murdered there, Heinz Leidersdorf was deported to Auschwitz on January 14, 1943 as part of the extradition of 14,700 prisoners to the SS ordered by Justice Minister Thierack , where he was killed on February 18, 1943 together with his party friend, resistance fighter Hans Berger .

Commemoration

In front of his former residence at Grubesallee 21 in Hamburg-Rahlstedt , a “ stumbling block ” reminds of Heinz Leidersdorf and his mother.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Berens: Trotskyists against Hitler. Cologne, Neuer ISP-Verlag, 2007, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Peter Berens: Trotskyists against Hitler. Cologne, Neuer ISP-Verlag, 2007, p. 200 f.
  3. ↑ Peter Berens: Trotskyists against Hitler. Cologne, Neuer ISP-Verlag, 2007, p. 109 f.
  4. ↑ Ursula Wamser, Wilfried Weinke: The student trainee Heinz Leidersdorf. In: A Disappeared World - Jewish Life on the Grindel. Springe 2006, p. 262 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Leidersdorf, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp