Michael Hirschberg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Hirschberg (born March 25, 1889 in Odessa , † March 20, 1937 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German lawyer , social democrat and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Memorial plaque on House Winterfeldtstrasse 8, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Michael Hirschberg, a Jew born in the city of Odessa, then part of Russia, was a district judge and leader of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . Until 1933 he was the SPD chairman of Department 8 in Berlin-Schöneberg , which included the area around Potsdamer Strasse and Bülowstrasse .

After the SPD was banned, he worked in the resistance against the National Socialist regime. In the illegal resistance organization of the Berlin SPD headed by Alfred Markwitz , Michael Hirschberg organized the "West Group", which is also known as the Hirschberg Resistance Group . The organizational area included the former SPD district associations Tiergarten, Charlottenburg, Schöneberg and Steglitz / Lankwitz. Members of this group included Walter Kohlhauser , Fritz Gelbart , Johannes Jahn , Walter Löffler and Fritz Krug .

Michael Hirschberg was arrested by the political police on May 17, 1935 and sentenced to three years in prison by the People's Court in September 1936 . The lawyer Hirschberg came into this process, "... with great courage: he regretted expressly not much earlier and more consistently illegal to have taken action against Nazism," he died after abuse in 1937 in Brandenburg prison-Gorden at a Heart attack.

Honors

A plaque commemorates Hirschberg on his house, which was destroyed during the war, at Winterfeldtstrasse 8 near Winterfeldtplatz .

A plaque commemorates him in the memorial of the socialists .

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933 - 1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, page 493
  • Hans-Joachim Fieber et al .: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945: A biographical lexicon. Trafo Published by 2005; ISBN 3-89626-350-1
  • Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Schöneberg and Tempelhof; Volume 13 of the series of publications by the German Resistance Memorial Center , Berlin 2002, page 52ff
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoß: The “other” Reich capital: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 , Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007, p. 95 (with police photo), p. 128–129 ISBN 3-936872-94-5 or ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1

Web links

Commons : Michael Hirschberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Schöneberg and Tempelhof; Page 53/54.
personal data
SURNAME Hirschberg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, social democrat and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1937
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel