Ludwig Moldrzyk

Ludwig Moldrzyk (born February 14, 1899 in Mannheim , † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

Ludwig Moldrzyk came from a working class family in Mannheim. He had two brothers. After completing school he completed an apprenticeship as a metal worker . He worked as a milling cutter at the Lanz company . As a young man he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emergence of National Socialism .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he was arrested by the Gestapo and transferred to the Ankenbuck concentration camp . When he was released in 1934, he continued to participate in the resistance against the Nazi regime . In his company, he inconspicuously distributed writings at colleagues' workplaces.

When, two days after the attack on the Soviet Union by the Wehrmacht, the Lechleiter group decided to launch a campaign involving the production and distribution of an illegal anti-war pamphlet, he took on responsibility for distributing this “Der Vorbote” pamphlet. In June 1942 the group was exposed through betrayal of the Gestapo, and Moldrzyk was one of the many arrested. After a trial before the People's Court in Mannheim Castle , he and 18 other resistance fighters were sentenced to death and executed on September 15, 1942 by the guillotine in the Stuttgart Regional Court .

Moldrzyk was married and had five children with his wife.

memory

• A stumbling block was laid by the action artist Gunter Demnig on the factory premises of his former place of work at the Lanz company in Mannheim-Lindenhof .

literature

• AU Machmol: " Lifelong human" or outsider, the strong of the weak. A novel-like tale , ISBN 978-3-7357-3516-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://widerstandausstellung.mop.de/ausstellung/die_lechleiter-gruppe_ludwig_moldrzyk.htm
2. ↑ https://www.mannheim.de/de/kultur-erleben/stadtgeschichte/stolpersteine/verlegeorte