List of known members of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists

The list contains well-known members of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA, until 1971 only VVN)

• Mumia Abu-Jamal (* 1954), American journalist and civil rights activist , convicted of murder in a controversial case , honorary member
• Josef “Jupp” Angenfort (1924–2010), state spokesman for North Rhine-Westphalia, member of the federal committee, honorary chairman, as a leading KPD member in the Federal Republic of Germany imprisoned several times
• Herbert Baade (1912–1998) from 1959 to 1979 chairman of the VVN in Hamburg.
• Wolfgang Baasch (* 1957), SPD, Lübeck, MdL
• Kurt Bachmann (1909–1997), co-founder of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime, Chairman of the German Communist Party
• Ulrike Bahr (* 1964), SPD, Augsburg, Member of the Bundestag
• Esther Bejarano (* 1924), honorary chairwoman, Holocaust survivor
• Fritz Beyling (1909–1963), from 1947 state chairman of the VVN Saxony-Anhalt; from 1951 to 1953 General Secretary of the VVN and Vice President of the Fédération Internationale des Résistants (FIR), politician ( KPD / SED )
• Rosa Bibo (1913–2003), VVN-VdA West Berlin
• Siegfried Bibo , long-time chairman of the VVN-VdA West Berlin
• Karin Binder (* 1957), politician ( Die Linke )
• Leni Breymaier (* 1960), trade unionist ( ver.di ), politician ( SPD )
• Eva Bulling-Schröter (* 1956), State Chairwoman of the Left Bavaria, Ingolstadt, Member of the Bundestag
• Anneliese Buschmann (1906–1999), co-founder of the Free Democrats party , later FDP
• Emil Carlebach (1914–2001), VVN Presidium, politician ( KPD / DKP )
• Hans Coppi junior (* 1942), from 2004 to 2017 chairman of the Berlin regional association, from 2017 honorary chairman, historian - orphaned son of the resistance fighters of the Red Band Hans and Hilde Coppi
• Ditmar Danelius (1906–1997), 1951–1953 chairman of the regional association for Greater Berlin, resistance fighter KPD , later SED politician
• Alfred Dellheim (1924–2003), chairman of the East German IVVdN , politician SED
• Ludwig Elm (* 1934), Federal and State Spokesman for Thuringia of the VVN-BdA
• Kurt Erlebach (1922–2008), General Secretary of the VVN-BdA
• Heinrich Fink (1935–2020), member of the Bundestag (1998–2002), chairman of the VVN-BdA (2003–2014), then honorary chairman
• Peter Franz (* 1941), chairman of the VVN-BdA Weimar, promoter of the learning and memorial place Prager-Haus Apolda
• Heinz Galinski (1912–1992), until 1948 2nd chairman of the VVN in Berlin
• Mirko Geiger, first authorized representative of IG Metall Heidelberg, SPD (2016)
• Ottomar Geschke (1882–1957), VVN chairman 1947–1953
• Peter Gingold (1916–2006), federal spokesman for the VVN-BdA
• Albert Goldenstedt (1912–1994), state chairman of the VVN-BdA Lower Saxony (1975–1981)
• Kurt Goldstein (1914–2007), honorary chairman of the VVN-BdA
• Ernst Grube (* 1932), Deputy Chairman of the Dachau Camp Community, Munich
• Harald Güller (* 1963), SPD, Augsburg, MdL
• Alfred Haag (1904–1982), long-time chairman of the Bavarian VVN-BdA and the "Dachau camp community" of the former Dachau concentration camp
• Falk Harnack (1913–1991), director, screenwriter and resistance fighter, Federal Cross of Merit First Class 1989
• Christian Haß (* 1963), Berlin, SPD, numerous functions at state level
• Carl Helfrich (1906–1960), first editor-in-chief of the VVN newspaper Die Tat
• Emil Henk (1893–1969), entrepreneur, resistance fighter, chairman of the SPD Heidelberg, member of the state parliament
• Käthe Hinrichs (1901–1996?), VVN / BdA, KPD / DKP
• Hugo Höllenreiner (1933–2015), German Sinto, contemporary witness for the persecution of the Sinti during the Nazi tyranny
• Resi Huber (1920–2000), peace activist and anti-fascist, member of the Munich district board
• Willy Hundertmark (1907–2002), co-founder of the VVN and 1983–1991 chairman of the “Landesvereinigung Bremen” (then honorary chairman)
• Victor Klemperer (1881–1960), professor of Romance studies, author a. a. from LTI - Notebook of a Philologist ( L ingua T ertii I mperii: Language of the Third Reich ), 1995 posthumously Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
• Lore Krüger (1914–2009), resistance fighter, photographer and translator in the GDR
• Inge Lammel (1924–2015), musicologist, honorary chairwoman of the Berlin regional association of the VVN-BdA
• Edith Leffmann (1894–1984), Jewish pediatrician, resistance fighter, member of the Resistance, co-founder of the VVN in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Fred Löwenberg (1924–2004), anti-fascist and publicist in the GDR
• Martin Löwenberg (1925–2018), German resistance fighter against National Socialism and persecuted by the Nazi regime, former concentration camp prisoner and survivor of the Holocaust
• Else Merkel (1905–1990), co-founder of the VVN and German resistance fighter
• Harry Naujoks (1901–1983), Sachsenhausen Committee
• Werner Pfennig (1937–2008), Chairman of the VVN-BdA 2002–2008
• Harald Poelchau (1903–1972), prison pastor in the resistance against the Nazi regime
• Anna Pröll (1916–2006), communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, Federal Cross of Merit 2002, first woman 2003 honorary citizen of the city of Augsburg
• Paul Oestreich (1878–1959), reform pedagogue, chairman of the VVN in Berlin
• Karl Raddatz (1904–1970), General Secretary of the VVN in the Soviet Zone and co-managing director of the VVN's Interzonal Secretariat
• Florian Ritter (* 1962), SPD, Munich, MdL
• Maria Röder (1903–1985), women's rights activist and KPD member
• Joseph Cornelius Rossaint (1902–1991), President of the VVN 1962–1991
• Andrea Schiele, Ulm, SPD, General Works Council of the DGB in Ravensburg, Chairwoman of the VVN-BdA Ulm, member of the Documentation Center Oberer Kuhberg Ulm eV
• Ulrich Schneider (* 1954), Federal Spokesman, Secretary General of the FIR
• Heinz Schröder (1910–1997), long-time chairman of the VVN-VdA in West Berlin
• Hans Schwarz (1904–1970), Co-Managing Director of the VVN's Interzonal Secretariat
• Ernst Sieber (1916–1994), resistance fighter in the Red Orchestra and in the NKFD
• Maria Wachter (1910–2010), honorary chairwoman of the VVN-BdA in NRW
• Fritz Wandel (1898–1956), founder and first chairman of the Reutlingen district association of the VVN
• Harald Weinberg (* 1957), Die Linke, Nuremberg, Member of the Bundestag
• Rolf Weinstock (1920–1952), chairman of the Emmendingen district association of the VVN
• Hannelore Willbrandt-Sieber-Ploog (1923–2003), resistance fighter in the White Rose Hamburg
• Max Zimmering (1909–1973), state chairman of the VVN Saxony from 1949 to 1953
• Sylvia Gabelmann (* 1958), Die Linke , Member of the Bundestag
• Klaus Lederer (* 1974), Die Linke , Berlin Senator for Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Political activist Abu-Jamal threatens to face the death penalty again Spiegel Online from January 19, 2010
2. Jump forward with united strength , young world , October 7, 2002.
3. ↑ Landesvereinigung NRW VVN-BdA, The VVN-BdA NRW mourns its honorary chairman Jupp Angenfort, March 15, 2010, [1] and book about the anti-fascists and former spokesman for the VVN-BdA, October 30, 2010, [2] .
4. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/geb-1913/402094.html
5. ^ New Germany, November 13, 1978.
6. ^ Heinrich Fink Honorary Chairman , report from the 2014 Federal Congress
7. ↑ [3] .