Herbert Blochwitz

Herbert Blochwitz (born October 25, 1904 in Dresden ; † August 16, 1944 there ) was a Dresden KPD functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

House at Förstereistraße 18, where Herbert Blochwitz lived from 1929

Herbert Blochwitz's urn grave in the Heidefriedhof

Blochwitz was born as the son of the bricklayer Hermann Blochwitz in Dresden; his mother earned additional money by working from home for the Dobritzer curtain factory in order to secure the family's livelihood. If the father was a member of the SPD , the mother joined the KPD in 1921 . Herbert Blochwitz completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Somsdorf from 1919 to 1922 after leaving school . During that time he was a member of the German Gymnastics Club. Back in Dresden Blochwitz joined the KPD like his mother and, after a time as a courier of the KPD, also became a KPD member in autumn 1923. As a result, he developed into "one of the most active Dresden functionaries" of the party. From 1924 until the ban in 1929, Blochwitz was active in the Red Front Fighters Union and the Red Youth Front.

From 1925 Blochwitz worked as a scaffolding builder. He first lived with his parents in Striesen at Markgraf-Heinrich-Strasse 33 (since 1946 Rosa-Menzer -Strasse ) and moved with them in 1929 to Förstereistrasse 18 in Dresden Neustadt; in the Neustadt he was political leader of the KPD for the Antonstadt . In 1930 he became the founder and head of the Red Army , which aimed to protect party members and property. After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933, he continued to work illegally for the party and was arrested in August 1933rd At the beginning of 1934 he was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, which he spent in the Bautzen prison. From there he was taken to Sachsenburg concentration camp , which he left in December 1936. Back in Dresden he contacted members of the KPD again and became involved in the resistance. He was unemployed for a longer period of time only in 1939 at Koch & Sterzel in Mickten as a carpenter. At that time Blochwitz, who had married in 1930, was already living at Draesekestrasse 10 in Pieschen ; Most recently he lived at Osterbergstrasse 17. In Pieschen he began to work with Kurt Schlosser in a resistance group to which Otto Galle and Arthur Weineck belonged. Among other things, Blochwitz built connections to the resistance group in various companies and won new comrades-in-arms. He also found a connection to the United Climbing Department . He was arrested on December 3 with Kurt Schlosser, Otto Galle, Robert Matzke and Arthur Weineck. While Matzke was killed immediately, the other prisoners were charged with high treason in June 1944 and sentenced to death. On August 16, 1944, all four were executed in the courtyard of the regional court on Münchner Platz . His urn grave is in the grove of honor on the Heidefriedhof .

Commemoration

From 1946 to 1963, today's Mildred-Scheel-Straße in Dresden was called Herbert-Blochwitz-Straße. From 1963 to 1991 Mosczinskystraße in Seevorstadt was called Herbert-Blochwitz-Straße. The 42nd Polytechnic High School in Übigau bore the honorary title "Herbert Bloch joke"; the school was the 42nd elementary school after reunification and is closed. The company vocational school in Radebeul of the VEB Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk Dresden (formerly Koch & Sterzel) also bore the honorary name "Herbert Blochwitz" during the GDR era.

literature

Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, pp. 19-21.
Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 12.

Web links

Herbert Blochwitz . In: Saxon Biography . Published by the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 20.
↑ Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 12.
^ Address book of the district and state capital Dresden, Freital-Radebeul, with surrounding 6 cities and 24 municipalities , volume 1943/44, p. 63.
↑ Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 21.
↑ Heinz Schumann, Gerda Werner: Fight the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters . Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 649 .

personal data
SURNAME	Blochwitz, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German worker functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1944
Place of death	Dresden

[Werner-1] Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 20.

[2] Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 12.

[3] Address book of the district and state capital Dresden, Freital-Radebeul, with surrounding 6 cities and 24 municipalities , volume 1943/44, p. 63.

[4] Blochwitz, Herbert. In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 21.

[5] Heinz Schumann, Gerda Werner: Fight the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters . Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 649 .