Max Borrack

Max Borrack (born August 11, 1901 , † February 19, 1945 in Brandenburg prison ) was a German socialist and resistance fighter .

Life

Monument in Domsdorf in honor of Max Borrack

Max Borrack, son of a miners' family, grew up in the southern Brandenburg municipality of Domsdorf with eleven siblings. Before he moved to Berlin in the mid-1920s , where he worked as a sales representative , he worked in the Domsdorf mining industry after graduating from school. He later married Marta, the daughter of a Bad Liebenwerda train attendant.

Immediately after Hitler's " seizure of power " Borrack, who was a member of the SPD, was arrested on January 30, 1933 for two days. When he criticized the re-introduction of compulsory military service in Germany in March 1935 , he was arrested again and sentenced to prison.

On January 11, 1945 Borrack stood before the People's Court with his wife Marta . The charge was "preparation for high treason ". Both are Paul Hinze , one from the Oderbruch originating Communists , the Borrack knew for some time, temporary accommodation and abetting granted. In addition, Borrack is said to have passed the leaflet "The Prosecution" in a carriage compartment that he had received from Hinze to a sergeant on a business trip in November 1943. He was immediately arrested and released a short time later.

Borrack was arrested again in connection with the arrest of Hinze in April 1944, as it was suspected that both had connections to the resistance groups of Robert Uhrig and Anton Saefkow , or belonged to them.

Under the chairmanship of Senate President Kurt Albrecht , Max Borrack was sentenced to death for “preparing to commit high treason in a difficult form” and for degrading military strength . On February 19, 1945 he was executed in Brandenburg prison. Borrack's urn was later buried in Domsdorf, as requested. His wife Marta received a two-year prison sentence for failing to report Paul Hinze and her husband. Hinze was executed shortly before the end of the war on April 20, 1945 at the age of 39 in Brandenburg-Görden.

Honors

• A memorial to Max Borrack has been in his home town of Domsdorf since 1985.
• Borrack's name is also on a memorial plaque that was unveiled on the day of the Victims of Fascism in 1947, which can be seen on the 1st floor of the former Kreuzberg town hall at 4 Yorckstraße in Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fritz Wilhelm: You fought for better Germany records about the anti-fascist resistance struggle in the Liebenwerda district . S. 92 .
2. ^ Fritz Wilhelm: For honorable memory - Max Borrack . In: Working group for local literature in the German Cultural Association (Hrsg.): Local calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district 1965/1966 . Bad Liebenwerda, S. 86 to 88 .
3. ↑ Relocation of the stumbling block for Paul Hinze in Letschin with his curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ You the laurel ... (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: Unser Blatt (VVN), No. 60, September 2015, p. 2.