Otto Lemm (resistance fighter)

Memorial plaque on the house at Oudenarder Str. 28, in Berlin-Wedding

Memorial stone in front of house 13 of the TH Wildau

Otto Lemm (born June 24, 1896 ; died July 17, 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

He was employed by the Berliner Maschinenbau AG in Berlin's Chausseestrasse , where he headed an illegal communist cell. At the end of the 1930s he got in touch with the anti-fascist resistance organization around Robert Uhrig , which Lemm's resistance group joined. It provided information about the interdependence of industrial production with the armaments and war economy and called for sabotage. The aim of the group was the establishment of a socialist state.

In early 1942, Lemm and more than a hundred members of the Uhrig resistance organization were arrested. After pre-trial detention in Plötzensee prison and indictment in January 1944, the people's court passed the death sentence on March 17, 1944 . On July 17, 1944, he was executed in Brandenburg prison. His grave is on the Seestrasse urn cemetery . A memorial plaque was still attached to his last house at Oudenarder Straße 28 ( Wedding ), where he lived from 1934 to 1943, in the immediate post-war years, but it was removed in 1951, but the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime replaced it shortly afterwards with the one today still existing metal plate.

literature

Stefanie Endlich: Paths of Remembrance. Memorial sites and locations for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin and Brandenburg . Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-45-1 (short biography, p. 277)

Web links

Memorial plaque Otto Lemm . In: Ed. German Resistance Memorial Center and Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin .: Memorial plaques in Berlin. Retrieved September 21, 2015
Brief portrait at luise-berlin.de

Individual evidence

↑ Stefanie Endlich: Paths of Remembrance. Memorial sites and locations for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin and Brandenburg . Metropol, Berlin 2007, p. 277 u. P. 459 (on Uhrig and the group's objectives)
↑ Stefanie Endlich: Paths of Remembrance. Memorial sites and locations for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin and Brandenburg . Metropol, Berlin 2007, p. 277.

personal data
SURNAME	Lemm, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Watch out, Robby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German communist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1896
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1944
Place of death	Brandenburg on the Havel

[1] Stefanie Endlich: Paths of Remembrance. Memorial sites and locations for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin and Brandenburg . Metropol, Berlin 2007, p. 277 u. P. 459 (on Uhrig and the group's objectives)

[2] Stefanie Endlich: Paths of Remembrance. Memorial sites and locations for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin and Brandenburg . Metropol, Berlin 2007, p. 277.