Johannes Eggert

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Johannes Eggert (born February 10, 1898 in Bublitz , Pomerania Province , † February 15, 1937 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Eggert came from the small town of Bublitz in Western Pomerania. After completing his school education, he became a metal worker, later a commercial clerk . He took as a soldier in the First World War in part and was the end of 1918 a Soldiers on. In 1919 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1921 he took part in a revolt by farm workers against large landowners in Pomerania . For this he was sentenced to six years in prison in 1922 for serious robbery . A year later he managed to escape and since then has lived illegally under the name "Hans Simke". In Königsberg he became the political leader of the Red Front Fighters Association (RFB) and was also a member of the Reich leadership.

In 1933 he emigrated to the Soviet Union , but came back in 1934 and became the first advisor and instructor of the Central Committee of the KPD in Saxony . On January 25, 1935, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Leipzig . The People's Court tried him and sentenced him to death on August 25, 1936 . Johannes Eggert was taken to the Berlin-Plötzensee prison. The day before his execution, he wrote in his farewell letter to his wife that he was going to death contained and that he also expected her to upright fulfill her human duty. In Plötzensee he was executed with the guillotine on February 25, 1937 .

Johannes Eggert was married to Luzie Jaworski (1902–1985), who lived in the USSR from 1933 to 1945 and returned to the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ) in Germany in 1946 . She was an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR .

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SURNAME Eggert, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobolice
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1937
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee