Max Reschke (warehouse manager)

Max Reschke (born January 18, 1894 in Berlin ; † August 30, 1964 there ) was a German teacher and Jewish functionary.

Life

Reschke, son of a businessman, completed a two-year commercial apprenticeship after completing his school career by 1911. He then attended the Jewish teacher training college in his hometown, but had to interrupt this training after the outbreak of the First World War due to his participation in the war from 1914 to 1919. After returning from captivity, he completed his training in 1920, then worked as a teacher at a Jewish middle school in Berlin until 1927 , during which time he passed the examination to become an elementary school and trade teacher. From 1927 to 1942 he was director of a Jewish elementary school in Berlin on the premises of the Orthodox Synagogue in Kaiserstraße. This school was closed by the National Socialists in July 1942 and Reschke then worked in the administration of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany . From July 1943 he was initially assigned to his hometown as a steward in the collection and deportation camp Große Hamburger Straße, where he also acted as a camp manager from January to March 1944 and then in the Iranische Straße collection camp. Reschke, who lost part of his family in the Holocaust , left the city on April 22, 1945 in the course of the Battle of Berlin .

Immediately after the end of the war, he resumed teaching, initially in Krampnitz and then in Neu Fahrland am See. On July 20, 1945, he was arrested by members of the Soviet military administration and sent to special camp No. 5 in Ketschendorf because of the camp management . From there he was transferred in March 1947 to special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg and in September 1948 to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . By the district court Chemnitz he received in the June 3, 1950 Waldheim , a twenty-five year prison sentence for cooperation with the Gestapo and the participation in the persecution of Nazi victims and opponents of. The well-known Rabbi Leo Baeck urged the Deputy Prime Minister Otto Nuschke for Reschke's pardon, his prison sentence was reduced to ten years in June 1954. After Reschke was released from the Brandenburg prison on December 31, 1955 as a non-amnestied person , in April 1956 the trial before the court of honor of the Berlin Jewish community followed , in which he was exonerated.

literature

• Günter Fippel: Anti-fascists in “anti-fascist” violence: Central and East German fates in the conflicts between democracy and dictatorship (1945 to 1961) . Andreas Peter, Guben 2003.

Web links

• Material on Max Reschke at the Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, page 157 (PDF file; 837 kB)