Lothar Cohn
Lothar Sallmann Cohn (born October 22, 1908 in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb .; Died January 21, 1944 in Oranienburg ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Just like his sister Marianne and her husband Herbert Baum , Lothar Cohn was active in the left youth movement. He belonged to the group “Schwarzer Haufen” of the comrades, the German-Jewish hiking association. He later belonged to the KJVD as a functionary in the Prenzlauer Berg local group . In the 1930s he joined the KPD group around Hans Fruck . Shortly after his arrest in January 1944, he was shot in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
In Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Zillebekeweg was renamed Cohnstraße after him on January 31, 1952 . The 29th Polytechnic High School in the neighboring Mandelstrasse was also named after him.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- ↑ The "Black Pile" in Germany ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Group Herbert Baum at die-linke-weissenburg.de
- ↑ circumstances of his death ( memento of 3 January 2016 Internet Archive ) on gdw-berlin.de
- ↑ Cohnstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohn, Lothar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cohn, Lothar Sallmann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1944 |
| Place of death | Oranienburg |