Oskar Eichentopf

Oskar Albert Eichentopf (born October 26, 1889 in Jena , † April 8, 1968 in Bremen ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and resistance fighter against National Socialism . In 1919 and from 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Bremen Parliament .

Life

Eichentopf learned after the elementary school in the occupation of lathe operator and fought as a simple soldier in the First World War . After the war he moved from Jena to Bremen and became a member of the KPD in 1919. Eichentopf supported the Bremen Council Republic , which existed for a short time, and was still a member of the Bremen Parliament in 1919. After the suppression of the Soviet Republic, Eichentopf became a functionary in the Red Front Fighters Union (RFB) and from 1925 was head of the Red Navy in Bremen. From 1930 until the National Socialists came to power and communist activities were banned in March 1933, he was again a member of the citizenry.

Eichentopf was also involved in the illegality for the KPD and from February 1933 belonged to the now illegal district leadership of Bremen. He was arrested on June 21, 1933 and sentenced to 18 months in prison in November of that year . After his release in January 1935, he was employed by Schiffswerft AG Weser and was a member of a small resistance group that included Leo Drabent , Lutz Bücking and Gustav Böhrnsen , among others . On September 1, 1939, Eichentopf was arrested again and held in so-called “ protective custody ” in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until March 21, 1940 . Eichentopf was arrested again on May 14, 1942 and released on June 1 of that year. From August 22, 1944 to the end of October 1944, he was in the Bremen-Farge concentration camp , then in police custody in Bremen. Eichentopf survived the death march to the Bay of Lübeck . He was released on April 14, 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , Eichentopf belonged to the Bremen Combat Group against Fascism , an anti-fascist collective movement led by Hermann Wolters and Adolf Ehlers . He became a member of the KPD again and most recently worked for the Bremen State Office for Reparation.

literature

• Inge Marssolek , René Ott: Bremen in the Third Reich. Adaptation - Resistance - Persecution . Schünemann, Bremen 1986, ISBN 3-7961-1765-1 , pp. 106, 246, 251, 265 and 490.
• Andreas Bodemer: Eichentopf, Oskar (1889–1968): German Metal Workers' Association, Central Committee of the Works Committees for the Bremen enclave (fighting community against fascism), Metal Industry Union . In: Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (ed.): Trade unionists in the concentration camps Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen. Biographical manual . Volume 3. Metropol, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89468-280-9 , pp. 305-309
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
• Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. A chronicle . Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86741-373-2 , passim.