Otto Möller (resistance fighter)

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Otto Möller (born April 5, 1888 , † April 14, 1945 ) was a German social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Möller came from a simple social background. After attending primary school, he learned the trade of a locksmith and found work in the Hamburg shipyard industry . He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and campaigned against the emerging fascism . After handing over power to the NSDAP , he continued his resistance illegally . In doing so he found a connection with the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ", which after the beginning of the Second World War a . a. Support for foreign forced laborersorganized. Möller was employed as a metal worker at the Blohm & Voss shipyard and provided such prohibited assistance. Because the Gestapo did not hide this, he was arrested and sentenced by a court to a prison sentence in the prison of Celle for “ favoring the enemy ” . When the Allied troops approached , the prison inmates were evacuated and deported to the Bützow-Dreibergen prison . Otto Möller died on this transport.

Honor

  • On the cemetery of Hamburg-Ohlsdorf a monument was three steles erected. The middle of these steles bears the name of Otto Möller on plate 14.

literature

  • SPD regional organization Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg, Books on Demand, 2003
  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance 1933-1945. Reports and documents. Röderberg-Verlag: Frankfurt / Main 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2009 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. Retrieved September 6, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vervielte.spd-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 23, 2014 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. Retrieved February 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / retro.spd-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1888
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1945