Hugo Breitenborn

Hugo Breitenborn (born May 12, 1894 in Probstheida near Leipzig ; † February / March 1945 ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism . From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Breitenborn, the son of a painter's assistant , became a bricklayer and chimney builder after elementary school . From 1914 to 1918 he fought as a simple soldier in the First World War . In 1919 he joined the KPD. Breitenborn was editor of the KPD newspaper Sächsische Arbeiterstimme and belonged to the party leadership of the Leipzig sub-district. In 1923, Breitenborn stayed temporarily in the Soviet Union . From 1929, Breitenborn was a member of the district leadership of West Saxony of the KPD and from January 1930 also a member of the extended district leadership of Saxony . In 1930 he became a full-time functionary of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in Saxony and from April 1932 he was the treasurer of the RGO state management in Saxony. From 1930 until the transfer of power to the National Socialists and the ban on the KPD in 1933, Breitenborn was a member of the Saxon state parliament.

On March 25, 1933, Breitenborn was arrested in Leipzig and was held in so-called “ protective custody ” until August 1934 . The historian Udo Grashoff , referring to a report by fellow prisoner Hugo Gräf from 1935, states that Breitenborn worked as a foreman during his imprisonment in the Colditz concentration camp when building the NSDAP district leadership in Colditz and harassed and denounced his fellow prisoners.

After his release he worked in various professions until 1944, but mainly as a bricklayer. He supported the resistance group around Georg Schwarz . On August 22, 1944, Breitenborn was arrested again and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He died in late February / early March 1945 while being transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

In Leipzig an allotment garden association is named after Breitenborn.

literature

Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Allan Merson : Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany . Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-89144-262-9 .

Web links

Entry: Breitenborn, Hugo on the page "Historical Protocols of the Saxon State Parliament".

Individual evidence

^ Udo Grashoff: Opportunism and defectors in the Sachsenburg concentration camp in 1933 . In: Bert Pampel, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Sachsenburg Concentration Camp (1933–1937) (= series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation. Volume 16). Sandstein, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-95498-382-7 , pp. 262–276, here p. 265.
^ KGV Hugo Breitenborn on the site of the Leipzig City Association of Allotment Gardeners eV

personal data
SURNAME	Breitenborn, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), member of the state parliament of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Probstheida near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	around February 1945

[1] Udo Grashoff: Opportunism and defectors in the Sachsenburg concentration camp in 1933 . In: Bert Pampel, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Sachsenburg Concentration Camp (1933–1937) (= series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation. Volume 16). Sandstein, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-95498-382-7 , pp. 262–276, here p. 265.

[2] KGV Hugo Breitenborn on the site of the Leipzig City Association of Allotment Gardeners eV