Max Winterhalter

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Max Winterhalter (born July 21 or 27, 1902 in Mannheim ; † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

After completing his school education, Winterhalter became a factory worker . In the 1920s he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and fought against the emergence of National Socialism . Winterhalter became a member of the Lechleiter resistance group in Mannheim before the start of the Second World War . Georg Lechleiter , a politically persecuted communist since the transfer of power to the NSDAP , had established a network with other communists, social democrats and non-party workers that became a resistance organization. The aim was to use leaflets and pamphlets to call for resistance to the regime, especially in large companies . In particular, the illegal newspaper “Der Vorbote” was produced and distributed with the cooperation of numerous participants in strict secrecy. Winterhalter's job was to get the materials needed for printing, which he bought in various cities so as not to arouse suspicion. In a chain of various other participants, the matrices were then labeled, the pages were printed, the pages were bound together and then brought to the various distributors, who in turn passed them on to friends who were trustworthy.

The Gestapo exposed this resistance activity and carried out mass arrests, including Winterhalter. The People's Court pronounced death sentences against 19 of those arrested , including against Max Winterhalter. On September 15, 1942, he was also executed with the guillotine in the Stuttgart district court .

memory

In Mannheim, a street in the Schönau district was named Max-Winterhalter-Ring.

literature

  • Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume I, Bonn 1995, p. 58, ISBN 3-89331-208-0
  • 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_max_winterhalter.htm
  2. ↑ https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-bd&q=max+winterhalter
personal data
SURNAME Winterhalter, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1942
Place of death Stuttgart