Herbert Bittcher

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Herbert Bittcher (born February 6, 1908 , † January 12, 1944 in Berlin-Tegel or January 22, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of National Socialism.

Life

Herbert Bittcher grave

After attending elementary school, Bittcher learned a commercial profession and worked as an employee . He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was involved in the Weimar Republic against the emergence of National Socialism . In 1933 he left the SPD and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). His last job was that of a foreman at the Hamburg Phoenix Gummiwerke . Here he came into contact with members of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen resistance group. He participated in their efforts to show solidarity with foreign forced laborers and acts of sabotage . When this activity became known, the Gestapo arrested him . Before a court he was tried for "preparation for high treason " in which the death sentence was pronounced on January 12, 1944. He was then on 22 January 1944 in the Brandenburg penitentiary executed - according to another source he chose already on January 12 in Berlin-Tegel to suicide .

Herbert Bittcher was buried on the honorary field of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation within the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf . The pillow stone names January 22nd as the date of death.

Honors

  • In 1984 a street in the Wilstorf district of Hamburg-Harburg was named "Bittcherweg" .
  • In Lönsstrasse 35 in Hamburg-Wilstorf and in Wilstorfer Strasse 4 in front of the Phoenix factory in Hamburg-Harburg, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling stone in his memory .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Names on the three memorial steles in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. (pdf) p. 1 , archived from the original on September 23, 2014 ; accessed on September 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c Foundation Archive of the Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Memorial Book AB. (pdf) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2014 (see also http://vervielte.spd-hamburg.de/ ).
  4. ↑ Herbert Bittcher. Retrieved September 23, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Bittcher, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1908
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1944 or January 22, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Tegel or Brandenburg- Görden