Leo Drabent

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Leo Drabent (born June 15, 1899 in Blumenthal / Unterweser ; † November 20, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison ) was a German machinist , communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

biography

Drabent was already painting anti-war slogans on walls and fences in his hometown in 1917. As a member of the German Metalworkers' Association and the socialist youth movement, he and his colleagues successfully campaigned for the five-year apprenticeship period as a fitter to be reduced to four years. In June 1917, he was therefore given a draft order and was made compulsory for military service, as a result of which he was seriously wounded at the front. In 1923 he became a member of the KPD and later political leader of the KPD sub-district of Bremen. In 1929 he completed a course at the Reichsparteischule Rosa Luxemburg in Fichtenau and was then responsible for the Marxist training courses in the KPD district northwest .

Because he had appeared as a counterparty at election meetings of the NSDAP and had exposed their anti-working class policies, 200 SA men were used to arrest him in May 1933. He was then tortured and severely ill-treated in the Brandenburg and Oranienburg concentration camps , as well as in its subcamps at Gut Elisenau (near Bernau near Berlin). After his release in February 1934, he worked at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen, in July 1936 he was arrested again and sentenced to three years in prison.

After his release in July 1939, he worked in a boat repair shop in Bremen and again worked illegally for the KPD. He organized there by the beginning of the Second World War , together with Hans Neumann , a resistor network of 3 and 5 groups in connection with the bästlein-jacob-abshagen group in Hamburg . On March 29, 1943, Leo Drabent was arrested by the Gestapo together with his wife Marianne, Hans Neumann, Hermann Cornelius and eight other resistance fighters . On October 13, 1944, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court for trying to "undermine the resistance of the German people through communist propaganda". Neumann and Drabent were executed with the guillotine in Brandenburg prison.

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literature

  • Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group. Report on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the water's edge during World War II . Ed .: Institute for Marxism at the Central Committee of the SED (=  contributions to the history and theory of the workers' movement . Volume 21 ). Karl Dietz Verlag , Berlin 1959.
  • Luise Kraushaar u. a .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters . Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED. tape 2 . Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 22 ff .
  • Willy Hundertmark , Jakob Pfarr (Ed.): Antifascist Resistance 1933 to 1945 in Bremen. Documentation for the exhibition Antifascist Resistance - 28.4.74 to 19.5.74 in the lower town hall in Bremen . Schmalfeldt, Bremen 1974.
  • Inge Marßolek , René Ott u. a .: Bremen in the Third Reich. Adjustment, resistance, persecution . Schünemann, Bremen 1986, ISBN 3-7961-1765-1 .
  • Drabent, Leo . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( excerpt from bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , pp. 159-160.
personal data
SURNAME Drabent, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumenthal (Bremen)
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg