Michael Blöth

Michael Blöth (born August 5, 1906 in Fürth , Bavaria; † March 13, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German anti-fascist and member of the KPD .

Life

Michael Blöth was born the seventh child in a proletarian family that was politically very active. His father, Johann Blöth, was a glass polisher, a social democrat and when he died he was a union employee of the glass workers' association, the largest single union in Fürth. From September 2, 1912, Michael attended elementary school, which he graduated on June 14, 1920 with the grade "good". He then began an apprenticeship as a carpenter. His father died in 1925 and his mother in 1927. Around 1925 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). There he met his future wife Wally Köhlein from Nuremberg. On January 7, 1928, the wedding took place in Nuremberg and he moved to his in-laws' apartment on Denisstrasse, where his wife also lived. The first child, Stephan, was born in March 1928.

Michael and his wife became members of the KPD in 1929. While his wife was active in the children's movement, Michael devoted himself to political activities in the Gostenhof district - a working-class district. The second child, Heinz, was born on November 20, 1931. A few days before the birth, Blöth was arrested and taken to underground prison, but released on the day his son was born. A year later Blöth left Nuremberg to travel to the Soviet Union. He had a tough election campaign behind him. In the SU, Michael Blöth attended the fifth course for use in the KPD's AM apparatus. (The term AM was the abbreviation for Department of Military Policy ).

The National Socialist dictatorship was established in Germany in January 1933 and Michael Blöth's brothers, Hans and Sepp, and his wife's brother, Albert, were in the Dachau concentration camp . In the summer of 1933 Michael Blöth and the other course participants returned to Germany to fill the gaps that had arisen. The party leadership of the KPD was particularly concerned about the increasingly complicated instructions for the districts. It was therefore decided to improve the guidance of the districts and so upper districts were formed. Langowski and Michael Blöth were planned by the course participants. The latter was given the code name Robert.

The Gestapo had succeeded in breaking into the AM apparatus through betrayal . Michael Blöth was arrested on March 13, 1934 at 7:30 a.m. in Berlin and died there.

literature

• Wally Rodammer: Wally , Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1979
• Michael Tscshno-Hell: A number above the heart , Berlin 1957, page 73
• Hermann Schirmer: The other Nuremberg , Frankfurt / Main 1974, S 224/225
• Bernd Kaufmann: Intelligence Service of the KPD 1919–1937 , Berlin, 1993, p. 309.
• Carola Tischler: Escape into the persecution , Münster 1996. P. 50.
• Siegfried Grundmann: The secret apparatus of the KPD in the sights of the Gestapo , Berlin 2008
• Bavarian People's Echo: March 25, 1954, No. 70