Oskar May

Oskar Mai (born September 2, 1892 in Annaberg , † late April 1945 in Radeberg ) was a Dresden KPD functionary and anti-fascist resistance fighter .

Life

Symbolic grave of Oskar Mai in the honor grove of the Heidefriedhof Dresden

At the age of 15, Oskar Mai joined the social democratic association of young workers in Germany . On his wandering he came to Dresden, where he found work as a pipelayer assistant. He first became a member of the SPD , then the USPD, and finally joined the KPD . Because of his active political activities he was dismissed and worked as a KPD functionary mainly in Dresden-Naußlitz .

He was arrested in February 1934 and sentenced to one year in prison. After he was released, he was under police surveillance for a long time. He was declared "unworthy of defense" by the authorities. In 1944 he succeeded in evading his call to the Volkssturm . Due to continued illegal work, he was arrested by the Gestapo on April 15, 1945 and taken to the Radeberg labor education camp. There his trail got lost. It was not until 1946 that an investigation found that Oskar Mai had been murdered in the Radeberg concentration camp. His cenotaph is on the Dresden Heidefriedhof .

Commemoration

On November 20, 1962, Frundsbergstrasse in Dresden-Naußlitz was renamed Oskar-Mai-Strasse. The 133rd Polytechnic High School in Gorbitz was given the honorary name "Oskar Mai". This school closed in 2002.

Mai's curriculum vitae is part of the biographical collection of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime , which was founded in 1947 and dissolved in the GDR in 1953 , which is kept in the Federal Archives .

literature

• Oskar May . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 53.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ File DY 55 / V 278/6/1165 - overview online