Otto Grabowski (Wildau)

Otto Grabowski (born September 18, 1901 , † July 10, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Grabowski was a lathe operator. He lived first in Vaulhoeden / East Prussia , later in the Ruhr area. However, it was initially not politically organized.

Around 1935 he moved from Gelsenkirchen to Wildau on his own, initially sublet there and brought his wife Edith Grabowski and their children Ulrich and Ursula to Wildau in 1937. He meanwhile worked as a lathe operator in the Berliner Maschinenbau AG, before. L. Schwartzkopff (BMAG) in Wildau. Here, too, he was initially not politically organized, but was perceived in various ways by his political stance as a communist. In the spring of 1942, for example, he had learned from his work colleague Paul Glasses there that an illegal company group existed and operated among colleagues. The Nazi judiciary wanted to see these as purely communist. As a result of a meeting a little later in Niederlehme with Wilhelm Jakob , for which glasses had given the impetus, Otto Grabowski was accepted as a member of the organization called Kampfbund . Otto Grabowski's contacts through his work in the Schwarzkopff locomotive factory in Wildau thus included the resistance group “Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus” around Wilhelm Jakob and Erich Prenlau in Niederlehme. Members of this resistance group campaigned to get involved against the war, distributed pamphlets such as Kampfbund! Who and what is the Kampfbund? and saw the establishment of a free people's government after the overthrow of the Nazi regime as a main goal of their work.

On May 21, 1943, Otto Grabowski, who in the meantime headed the local resistance group mentioned, was arrested in Wildau. After pre-trial detention in Berlin-Plötzensee and indictment in January 1944, Otto Grabowski and other comrades-in-arms were pronounced on March 30, 1944 by the “ People's Court ” chaired by Roland Freisler . Otto Grabowski was sentenced to death for "preparing for high treason" and "favoring war enemies". On July 10, 1944, as for Arthur Ladwig from Ludwigsfelde, the planned execution of the sentence in the Brandenburg-Görden prison took place.

Honors

Memorial stone for Otto Grabowski at the TFH Wildau

• In the Erich-Weinert-Straße in Königs Wusterhausen there was the 4th POS Otto Grabowski until 1991
• At the TH Wildau , memorial stones in front of “House 13” remind of Otto Grabowski, Otto Lemm and Paul Schütze .
• In Wildau, district Hoherlehme, there is a Grabowskistraße, on his last house at Karl-Marx-Straße 110 there is a memorial plaque for him.

literature

• Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. Published by the history workshop of the Berlin Association of Participants in the Antifascist Resistance Struggle BV VdN, Volume C – G. trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2004

swell

• "Grabowski Files": Memory report by Edith Grabowski in the Brandenburg State Main Archives in Potsdam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wildauer Rundschau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)  
2. ↑ Fred Bruder: Between Resistance and Assertion. The Königs Wusterhausen region during the war from 1939 to 1945. Königs Wusterhausen 2011, pp. 99–103
3. ↑ Wildauer Rundschau ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) 
4. ↑ Fred Bruder: Between Resistance and Assertion. The Königs Wusterhausen region during the war from 1939 to 1945. Königs Wusterhausen 2011, pp. 104–110
5. ^ Teacher Valentin dies while doing number exercises in the classroom . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 9, 1996