Herbert Baade

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Detlef Baade with the photo of his father Herbert Baade in front of the town hall

Herbert Baade (born May 16, 1912 in Weißenfels ; † November 5, 1998 in Hamburg ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and from 1959 to 1979 chairman of the Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN) in Hamburg .

Career

Baade's father was a conservative businessman. After primary school and training as a hairdresser , Herbert moved to Hamburg. In 1932 he was the youngest master hairdresser in Hamburg. Despite being self-employed, he was a member of the ADGB and KPD trade unions because he felt like a worker. Since the early 1930s, Baade owned a hairdressing salon on Peterstrasse in Hamburg's Neustadt district . He was an eyewitness to the Altona Bloody Sunday on July 17, 1932 and the execution of August Lütgens , Walter Möller , Bruno Tesch and Karl Wolff with the ax. His hair salon was a good place to share and disseminate information. He made leaflets and distributed them. He was arrested in March 1933, severely tortured in the town hall , headquarters of the police and Gestapo in Hamburg . After that, from March 31, 1933, he was taken to the Wittmoor concentration camp and was taken to the town hall and the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . From August to December 1933 he was imprisoned in the Esterwegen concentration camp . After his release, he worked illegally in the management of the Altona sub-district , in 1934 he was arrested again and sentenced by the People's Court to two years in prison for high treason. He was taken to the Brandenburg penitentiary and was then repeatedly imprisoned in prisons. a. in the town hall, in the Altona prison, in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and was banned from working . In 1943, Baade was forcibly recruited to the 999 Penal Battalion. In 1944 he was captured by the British in Tunis (Africa).

After 1945 he was the Insel hairdresser in Hamburg-Waltershof and received an award for rescuing fellow citizens during the 1962 storm surge . He volunteered as a contemporary witness at the Fuhlsbüttel Memorial and on tours of the Hamburg Youth Association. In 1960 he was expelled from the SPD due to his work in the VVN .

Web links

Herbert Baade on Blood Sunday in Altona (taz)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Bauche , Ludwig Eiber , Ursula Wamser, Wilfried Weinke (eds.): "We are the force" - workers' movement in Hamburg from the beginnings to 1945, VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 296
  2. ↑ Herbert Diercks , Infoarchive Norderstedt on 30 May 2006
  3. ↑ Displaced persons in the middle of Hamburg: Black and white photos of Paradise, TAZ March 24, 2018
  4. ^ New Germany of September 17, 1960
personal data
SURNAME Baade, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1998
Place of death Hamburg