Josef Nawrocki

Stumbling stone in front of the house, Straßburger Strasse 24, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Josef Nawrocki (born February 10, 1880 in Adelnau , † April 27, 1941 in Sonnenburg ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Nawrocki had been a member of the SPD since 1898 . During the First World War he became a member of the USPD , whose left wing united with the KPD in December 1920 . From 1921 to 1923 he was a city councilor for the KPD in Berlin . In 1923 he was elected to the KPD district leadership Berlin-Brandenburg and the district council assembly in Köpenick .

In 1926 he was delegated to the headquarters of the Communist International in Moscow , where he worked for the executive committee in the field of the agricultural workers 'and peasants' movement. In 1928 he returned to Germany and became a member of the KPD district leadership in East Prussia . He later took on functions in the agitprop department of the KPD in Berlin, which is responsible for the press . After the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and the conversion of the KPD structures to work in the underground , he headed the illegal party organizations in the northern districts of Berlin. In June 1936, Nawrocki was from the Gestapo arrested and an eight-year prison sentence convicted he held until his death as a result of prison conditions in the penitentiary Sonnenburg spent.

Honors

• 1958 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen the Josef-Nawrocki-road named after him.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 530.
• Nawrocki, Josef . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef-Nawrocki-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )