Otto Galle

Otto Galle (born July 31, 1897 in Dresden ; † August 16, 1944 there ) was a Dresden worker functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

House at Kyffhäuserstraße 30, where Otto Galle lived with his family

Otto Galles urn grave in the Heidefriedhof

Galle trained as a shoemaker. He took part in the First World War as a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class . Galle married in 1920; the marriage had two daughters. Having become unemployed after the war, Galle went to Essen with his family , where he worked in the mining industry. The family returned to Dresden and from the mid-1920s lived in an attic apartment at Kyffhäuserstraße 30. In 1925, Galle joined the KPD . After a short work as a shoemaker in Dresden and Radebeul , where he was actively involved in the revolutionary trade union opposition, Galle became unemployed again, but was actively involved in the KPD, took part in meetings and was the party's cashier, where he worked as a cashier from 1931 was active in his district of Striesen . He was also involved in the production of leaflets and handouts.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis Galle was one of those to the concentration camp Hohnstein produced prisoner contact and let smuggle illegal materials into the castle. In January 1934 Galle was arrested and spent several months in the Dresden police headquarters . From April he was in custody in the district court on Münchner Platz and from July to December 1934 was a prisoner in the Mathildenstrasse prison . In November 1934 he was sentenced to 27 months in prison by the Dresden Higher Regional Court for “preparing for high treason” and continuing the KPD, which he spent in Zwickau prison. He turned down an application to have his unworthiness to serve, which he was advised shortly before the end of his term of detention, was rejected. His term was then extended; for this he was deported to the Sachsenburg concentration camp .

After his release, Galle was again in contact with resistance groups in Dresden and maintained close contacts with Paul Gruner and Herbert Blochwitz, among others . In 1943 he was part of Kurt Schlosser's resistance group . Galle was arrested again on December 3, 1943 and sentenced to death with Kurt Schlosser, Herbert Blochwitz and Arthur Weineck at the end of June 1944 for “attempted communist overthrow”. On August 16, 1944, all four were executed in the courtyard of the regional court on Münchner Platz. His urn grave is in the grove of honor on the Heidefriedhof .

Contradictory memory

Memorial to Otto Galle, Helene Glatzer and Rosa Menzer, 1988

The Gestapo employee Otto Boden, who was responsible for Galle's last arrest , initially lived under a false name as a member of the SED in the GDR. When he was identified in 1954, Boden was not held accountable, but recruited as a secret informant for the Ministry of State Security . This made it possible for Boden to flee to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he remained unmolested.

From 1946 to 1993, the Kyffhäuserstraße in Dresden was called Otto-Galle-Straße. The 20th Polytechnic High School was given the honorary name "Otto Galle". It became the 20th elementary school after reunification and has been closed since 2000.

On the occasion of the XI. At the SED party congress in September 1988 , a sandstone memorial created by Vinzenz Wanitschke for Otto Galle, Rosa Menzer and Helene Glatzer was unveiled on Barbarossaplatz in Dresden . The bronze plaques with a short curriculum vitae were designed by Martin Hänisch . In the allotment garden on Prof.-Ricker-Strasse in Dresden, a memorial stone commemorated Otto Galle; A memorial plaque for Galle was still attached to his house at Kyffhäuserstraße 30 in 2000.

literature

Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, pp. 35–38.
Galle, Otto . 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. 30.
Herbert Goldhammer, Karin Jeschke: Dresden memorial sites for the victims of the Nazi regime . ddp goldenbogen, Dresden 2002, pp. 63–66.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 38.
↑ Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 35.
^ First entry in the Dresden address book 1926. See address book for Dresden and suburbs. Volume 1926/27, p. 186.
↑ Galle, Otto . 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. 30.
↑ Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 37.
↑ Galle, Otto . In: Volker Klimpel : Born in Dresden . Shaker, Aachen 2914, p. 30.
^ Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Past Policy of the GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007, pp. 199ff., ISBN 9783647350189 . Limited book preview on Google Books
^ Herbert Goldhammer, Karin Jeschke: Dresden memorial sites for the victims of the Nazi regime . ddp goldenbogen, Dresden 2002, p. 63.
↑ Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl and Regina Scheer: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 651.

personal data
SURNAME	Galle, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dresden worker functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1944
Place of death	Dresden

[Werner-1] Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 38.

[2] Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 35.

[3] First entry in the Dresden address book 1926. See address book for Dresden and suburbs. Volume 1926/27, p. 186.

[4] Galle, Otto . 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. 30.

[5] Galle, Otto . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, p. 37.

[6] Galle, Otto . In: Volker Klimpel : Born in Dresden . Shaker, Aachen 2914, p. 30.

[7] Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Past Policy of the GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007, pp. 199ff., ISBN 9783647350189 . Limited book preview on Google Books

[8] Herbert Goldhammer, Karin Jeschke: Dresden memorial sites for the victims of the Nazi regime . ddp goldenbogen, Dresden 2002, p. 63.

[9] Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl and Regina Scheer: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 651.