Johann Wilhelm Jasper

Johann Wilhelm "Willy" Jasper (born January 28, 1898 in Meldorf ; † executed September 29, 1934 in Hamburg ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Johann Wilhelm "Willy" Jasper was born in 1898 at Meldorfer Sandberg 22 (today's Marschstraße 37). After Jasper was a soldier in World War I, he became a seaman and went to sea as a seaman. He later worked as a showman in the port of Hamburg , lived in Hamburg's Neustadt district, but felt a connection with Meldorf until his death.

In the Weimar Republic he became a member of the KPD and the Red Front Fighters League . After its ban, the communist seamen and dock workers organized themselves instead in the Red Navy , in which Jasper took on a leading position. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the Red Navy organized armed resistance against the Hitler government. This resistance was strictly rejected by its own party, the KPD. The resistance of the Red Navy could only be crushed by the National Socialists in the spring of 1934.

Johann Wilhelm Jasper was seriously injured and arrested in an exchange of fire with the SA on February 28, 1933. He was tortured while in custody. Approx. He was locked up in the Langenhorn State Hospital for 10 months . The special court at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court sentenced him to death on September 25, 1934 for attempted murder and resistance . The sentence was carried out on September 29, 1934 in the Hamburg remand prison on Holstenglacis by the ax.

Commemoration

On August 8, 2008 Gunter Demnig put a stumbling block in memory of Jasper in Marschstr. 37 relocated to Meldorf.

See also

• Heinrich Jauch (1894–1945), First Public Prosecutor in Hamburg - for the conviction and execution of the accomplice Hermann Fischer in the main proceedings known as the “Red Navy Trial” or “Eagle Hotel Trial”

Web links

• Detailed curriculum vitae under "Stolpersteine ​​in Dithmarschen" ( memo from November 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )