Kurt Bietzke
Kurt Bietzke (born January 13, 1894 in Guben ; † September 7, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German anti-fascist and resistance fighter .
Life
Bietzke was a son of the painter Gustav Bietzke and his wife Auguste, née Bahr. After graduating from elementary school, he also learned the painting trade. In 1915 he married the machine knitter Martha Kuban (June 11, 1894 - January 29, 1967) and moved with his family to Berlin. They had two children, Walter and Elsbeth.
In Berlin, Kurt Bietzke became a member of the SPD in 1916 and co-founder of the KPD in Berlin-Lichtenberg in 1919 . Bietzke was employed as a painter at the Löwe company in Berlin-Lankwitz .
Within the KPD he was a functionary within the party's security service. He was the deputy head of the Proletarian Self-Protection in East Berlin , which was also responsible for protecting the KPD's central committee .
From 1933 Kurt Bietzke took part in the resistance. After “illegal” actions on May 1, 1933 in Stralau and Lichtenberg, he was briefly arrested. As head of a resistance group with the code name painter , he and other anti-fascists labeled a factory chimney in 1934 with "The KPD is alive".
From the late 1930s he belonged to the resistance group around Robert Uhrig , Felix and Käthe Tucholla . Kurt Bietzke had connections to the Red Mountaineers , a resistance group operating in the Saxon Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
In 1942 he helped the instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Erwin Panndorf that from the Soviet Union coming to the parachute was bailed. Kurt Bietzke also kept in contact with the resistance groups around Rudolf Scheffel and Richard Hinkelmann . He procured illegal quarters, obtained passports, money and ration cards.
On July 8, 1942, he was arrested at his place of work in Berlin-Lankwitz and initially sent to the Gestapo camp in Wuhlheide . On August 17, 1943, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court .
Kurt Bietzke was executed during the Plötzensee Bloody Nights .
Honors
- In Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , Bietzkestrasse is named after him
Web links
- Kurt Bietzke in the Lichtenberg Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://lichtenberg.vvn-bda.de/2014/01/05/gedenken-aus-anlass-des-120-geburtstages-von-kurt-bietzke-am-13-januar-2014/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bietzke, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guben |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |