Hermann Wolff (resistance fighter)

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Hermann Wolff ( June 29, 1906 in Berlin - spring 1945 in Ichtershausen ) was a German surveyor and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Stolperstein in Berlin-Kreuzberg, 2008

Hermann Julius Albert Wolff was born on June 29, 1906 as the third child of Karl Wolff (born March 29, 1881) and Holdine Wolff (born May 26, 1886, born Kriegsch) at the Charité in Berlin. His parents married on May 9, 1903 in Berlin, where his brother Willy Karl Franz were born on June 24, 1903 and his sister Bertha Dorothea Charlotte on March 26, 1905. Hermann Wolff completed an apprenticeship as a surveying technician in the Lower Silesian district town of Brieg . After a year of wandering, he returned to Berlin in 1926 and married Elisabeth Tromke in 1928 . He joined the KPD and became a member of the Red Aid .

From 1937 he worked as a warehouse keeper at the Askania works in Berlin-Mariendorf, which at the time produced gyroscopic instruments for battleships and aircraft, target optics for anti-aircraft guns, submarine periscopes and the flight control system of the V1 cruise missile . Wolff joined the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization and did conspiratorial work in the armaments company. He made his apartment available for meetings and distributed pamphlets like anti-Hitler! ' Where's the common sense? or the March 1944 airmail dropped by the British Royal Air Force .

On July 14, 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo . The 5th Senate of the People's Court sentenced Hermann Wolff on November 29 or 30, 1944 to ten years in prison. His co-defendants Karl Ladé , Kurt Rühlmann , Stanislaus Szczygielski and Walter Zimmermann were sentenced to death by guillotine . The execution of the four resistance fighters took place on January 8, 1945th

Hermann Wolff initially served the sentence in the Brandenburg-Görden prison . On February 22, 1945, he was transferred to the Thuringian prison in Ichtershausen and never returned from there.

Commemoration

Plaque for Paul Hirsch , Paul Junius , Karl charge , Kurt Rühlmann , Stanislaus Szczygielski , Hermann Wolff and Walter Zimmermann in Großbeerenstraße 2 in Berlin-Mariendorf

Wolff's name can be found on two memorial plaques and a stumbling block:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Fieber, Lothar Berthold, Michele Barricelli: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945: a biographical lexicon, Volume 5 , Trafo-Verlag 2004, 13
  2. ↑ Diverging information; it is also possible that the process took two days.
  3. ↑ We accuse !: 800 Nazi blood judges: Supporting the militaristic Adenauer regime , Committee for German Unity 1959, 95
  4. ^ Emil Ackermann: From the Tempelhof history: Naziterror and resistance , VdA 1984, 25
  5. ↑ Gerhart Haas: Germany in the Second World War: The smashing of Hitlerite fascism and the liberation of the German people: June 1944 to May 8, 1945 , Pahl-Rugenstein 1985, 265

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surveyor and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Ichtershausen