Otto Hermann Bergmann
Otto Hermann Bergmann (born September 8, 1886 in Pitschendorff, Weißenfels district , † November 13, 1944 in Monakam ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of National Socialism.
Life
Bergmann learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of carpenter . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the National Socialists came to power , Bergmann was visited by SA men in his apartment on April 6 and abused. He was then imprisoned in the Stadthaus, the Hamburg headquarters of the Gestapo , until May 1933 . After his release, he was arrested again on January 29, 1934 and sentenced by the Hamburg Higher Regional Court on April 20, 1934 to 18 months in prison for “preparing for high treason” . He was released from the Fuhlsbüttel prison on July 29, 1935.
After the beginning of the Second World War he came into contact with the " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group " and joined them. In their “technical apparatus”, he also participated in the illegal resistance work, which consisted of solidarity with foreign forced laborers and the anti-fascist education of the workers. His involvement became known to the Gestapo , which arrested and tortured him on December 22, 1942 . At the end of July 1943, Bergmann was released from the remand prison for two months before he was sentenced because the building had been partially destroyed as a result of Allied air raids. He then went into hiding and was later housed in a remote inn by a relative in Monakam.
Bergmann, who was warned of a possible denunciation by the wife of a friend of his resistance fighter , died the following day of the consequences of imprisonment, probably of a stroke.
Honor
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In the Hamburg-Hohenfelde district , the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling stone in front of his last residence at Sechslingspforte No. 4 in his memory .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 18, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergmann, Otto Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pitschendorff, Weißenfels district |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Monakam |