Klara Dworznik

Klara Dworznik (* December 24, 1910 in Hamburg as Klara Metzler; † 1991 ibid) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Klara Dworznik learned the trade of a seamstress . Around 1930 she met the communist worker Hugo Dworznik , who lived in Hamburg-Neustadt and had attended the Holstenwall elementary school. Through him she was introduced to the anti-fascist resistance. She became a member of the KPD in 1929 and a member of the KJVD in 1930 . She was a member of the Red Aid and worked in the union. She was charged for the first time in 1932 and arrested in 1933. She gives birth to her son Rolf in the Hamburg remand prison without a doctor. While in custody, she married Hugo Dworznik in 1933, who was also in custody. Klara Dworznik is sentenced to 5 months imprisonment for illegal work in the KPD. She was given an amnesty in 1934.

She worked in the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen " and took part in their solidarity campaigns . In October 1942, the activities of the group were exposed by the Gestapo, more than 100 of its 200 members at that time were arrested. After this activity became known, numerous workers' resistance members were arrested by the Gestapo and interned in Fuhlsbüttel in preparation for a trial for high treason . When the Gestapo headquarters was destroyed in a bombing raid in autumn 1942, numerous prisoners were given temporary leave until their cells were to be restored. The married couple Gustav Bruhn and Elisabeth Bruhn , who were released in the process, decided to go into hiding and to avoid re-entering prison. In this situation, Klara Dworznik took Elisabeth Bruhn and Adolf Schröder (SPD) in with her, while her husband Gustav was hidden with the Tennigkeit family, who were friends.

Ehrenfeld Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation

When the Gestapo discovered this hiding place through betrayal, they arrested Elisabeth Bruhn, Klara Dworznik and Adolf Schröder on February 3, 1944. The couple Bruhn and two other Communists were a little later in the firing bunker of the Neuengamme concentration camp hanged. Klara Dworznik was sent to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and was liberated by the English on May 5, 1945. There was no longer any trial for her or her husband Hugo.

From 1945 she also worked with young people as a contemporary witness, attended schools until 1983, continued to be active in the KPD and from 1968 in the DKP as well as in the VVN Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. Among other things, she works on the story of the Hamburg resistance.

Klara Dworznik was buried next to her husband in 1991 in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of ​​the Ehrenfeld of the Geschwister-Scholl-Stiftung , grid square Bn 73 No. 378 (left of the path, last block: first row, second stone).

literature

• Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945. A Ehrenhain documentation , ed. from the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten eV Land Hamburg, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9

Web links

• Klara Dworznik at Frauenbiografien hamburg .de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 20, 2011 
2. ↑ Rita Bake: Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges named after women in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 959 kB) Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, State Center for Political Education. Retrieved August 20, 2011 
3. ^ Pillow stone Hugo and Klara Dworznik at genealogy.net