Hermann Maass

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Hermann Maaß (born October 23, 1897 in Bromberg ; † October 20, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German trade unionist, publicist, social democratic politician and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 .

Life

Hermann Maaß was born the son of a railway official in Bromberg ( Province of Posen ). After graduating from high school, he took part in the First World War, in which he was seriously wounded in 1918. Maaß then studied philosophy , psychology and sociology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin ; he passed the teaching examination. In 1924 he became managing director of the Reich Committee of the German Youth Associations and editor-in-chief of the magazine Das Junge Deutschland . In 1933 he was released by the National Socialists . He was offered a professorship at Harvard University , which he declined. Until 1938 he was editor of the series Youth and Education Abroad and Youth and Education in the World .

In the following years he was an employee and business partner of Wilhelm Leuschner . He built union-related resistance groups and maintained contacts with the Kreisau district . Because of these contacts - he also met with Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg - he was arrested on August 8, 1944.

On October 20, 1944, together with Julius Leber and Adolf Reichwein, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court under its president Roland Freisler and hanged on the same day in Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

Honors

In 1980, in the immediate vicinity of the Plötzensee execution site in Berlin-Moabit, a bridge on Seestrasse over the connecting canal to the Westhafen was named after Hermann Maaß.

literature

  • Sigrid Grabner , Hendrik Röder: In spirit I stay with you - texts and documents about Hermann Maaß . Lukas, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936872-03-1 .
  • Siegfried Mielke with the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker (eds.): Unique - lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920–1933) in the resistance against National Socialism . Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , pp. 320-323 .
  • Ines Reich: Potsdam and July 20, 1944. On the trail of the resistance against National Socialism. Accompanying document to the exhibition of the Military History Research Office and the Potsdam Museum . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-7930-0697-2 , p. 83 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Maass, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maass, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists, resistance fighters
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee