Ludwig Neischwander

Ludwig Neischwander (born June 28, 1904 in Frankenthal , Pfalz , † February 24, 1943 in Stuttgart ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

Neischwander came to Mannheim with his parents as a child . After completing his school education, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith at Bopp & Reuther on the Waldhof . He got a job in this company and his colleagues elected him to the works council . At the age of 22 he moved into an apartment at Rheinhäuser Strasse 12 in Schwetzingervorstadt . As a young man he was organized in the workers' sports club and was active in canoeing . He was also a lifeguard and paramedic . After he became unemployed in 1929, he found his way to membership in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He became head of organization of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) of Baden / Palatinate. He also worked in sales for the Mannheimer Arbeiterzeitung.

At a functionaries' meeting on May 1, 1933 at the Altriper ferry , he and ten of his comrades were arrested and taken to a concentration camp . The political education work came to a standstill for a time. But when Neischwander was released from the concentration camp, he continued his political work illegally . He came into contact with the resistance group around Georg Lechleiter . He found wage work in various places, most recently in a small metal works. He worked carefully and reliably in the production and distribution of the “Vorboten”, an illegal information and indictment against the war in the Soviet Union . Nevertheless, this work was stopped after the publication of the fourth edition of "Vorboten" because the group had been exposed through betrayal . In the second trial against the members of the Lechleiter organization, he was sentenced to death together with four others before the People's Court and on February 24, 1943, executed with the guillotine in the Stuttgart Regional Court .

Ludwig Neischwander was married and, with his wife, was the father of his daughter Clare.

memory

• In the Mannheim district of Schönau , a street was named "Ludwig-Neischwander-Weg".

• On March 12, 2010, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of his house at Rheinhäuser Straße 12 .

literature

• Max Oppenheimer : The Harbinger Case , Frankfurt 1979

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

• Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume I, Bonn 1995, p. 58, ISBN 3-89331-208-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://mannheim.vvn-bda.de/stolperstein-fur-ludwig-neischwander/
2. ↑ Marchivum , Chronikstar , Ludwig-Neischwander-Weg
3. ↑ https: //www.untergrund-blättle.ch/audio/523399/stolpersteine_fuer_opfer_des_faschismus_3verlege_aktion_in_mannheim.html