Oskar Reincke
Oskar Reincke (also Reinke ; born January 10, 1907 in Hamburg ; † July 10, 1944 there ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Oskar Reincke grew up in Hamburg as the son of a ship controller. He began an apprenticeship as a carpenter , but broke it off because the job was too much for him physically, and then worked as a roommate .
In 1924 Reincke joined the Communist Youth Association and a little later took over a district leadership. In 1927 he was employed as an assistant educator in a Hamburg youth welfare office and in 1929 attended a socio-educational seminar. A little later Reincke joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1932 took over the management of the KPD sub-district of Flensburg .
In 1932 he married Ella Seidel , who had been a member of the KPD since 1924. On March 12, 1933, Reincke was elected to the Flensburg city council. He was unable to exercise his mandate due to the “Reichstag Fire Ordinance”. Reincke was arrested in mid-1933 and held in various concentration camps until 1935 . His wife tried to go into hiding in Hamburg, but was arrested and sentenced to several years in prison. After their release both lived in Hamburg. After another brief detention, Reincke found work in a paper sack factory and from 1939 rejoined the Hamburg resistance.
In December 1941, Reincke, together with Bernhard Bästlein , Robert Abshagen and Franz Jacob, decided to found a resistance group against National Socialism and belonged to the three-man leadership. Reincke was arrested again on October 17, 1942 and sentenced to death . On July 10, 1944, Reincke was executed in the Hamburg remand prison on Holstenglacis .
Honors
Reincke's name is part of a plaque of honor at the entrance to the Flensburg Council Chamber, which commemorates the members of the Flensburg City Council, whose mandate was withdrawn by the Nazi regime.
literature
- Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (ed.): Lexicon of Resistance 1933–1945 . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43861-X , p. 161.
Web links
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- Kathleen Marowsky: The Bästlein-Jacobs-Abshagen Group - An example of communist resistance in Hamburg in the “Third Reich”. In: Unter-Hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Text of the memorial plaque (PDF; 214 kB) and speech by Dr. Schwensen on the occasion of the commemorative event of the Flensburg council meeting on September 4, 2008, looking back at the Nazi conformity 75 years ago in the early summer of 1933 (PDF; 125 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reincke, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reinke, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |