Otto Mende

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Karl Hans Otto Mende (born February 10, 1907 in Zwickau ; † June 26, 1944 in the Hamburg remand prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Mende came from a working class family . After attending primary school and obtaining his secondary school diploma, he learned the trade of a locksmith and worked as a metal worker. He sympathized with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emergence of National Socialism , even after the transfer of power to the NSDAP . With his friends he listened to foreign broadcasters and discussed political issues of resistance with them. In August 1936 he was arrested and indicted in a trial against Rudolf Mokry and nine others at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court and sentenced on April 22, 1937 to three and a half years in prison. When he was released, he began working at the Kiehn shipyard in Hamburg . Here he found connection to the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob Abshagen " which among the workers awareness about the goals for operation of the Nazi regime and after the start of World War II for foreign aid forced laborers organized. Resistance cells formed in large Hamburg companies, including in the Kiehn shipyard, where this group was led by Mende. After the Gestapo smashed the Bästlein group's network in 1942, Mende was arrested on November 25, 1942, released shortly after, but arrested again on March 19, 1943. After six weeks of detention due to the destruction of the detention center by air strikes, he returned to prison on September 10th. On January 31, 1944, the main hearing in the “ Hamburg Communist Trial ” was held by the senior Reich attorney at the People's Court against Hornberger and eight others , including Ernst Mittelbach . Mende's verdict was the death penalty for “preparation for high treason”. On June 26, 1944 between 4:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Otto Mende was beheaded together with Paul Thürey , Erich Heins , Karl Kock , Hans Köpke , Ernst Mittelbach, Walter Reber , Wilhelm Stein , Kurt Vorpahl and Oskar Voss in the Hamburg remand prison. Mende was the second to be killed at 4:05 p.m.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://321ignition.free.fr/pag/fr/ana/pag_008/pag_05.htm Retrieved August 27, 2011
  2. ↑ http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=3755 Retrieved August 27, 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.hamburg.vvn-bda.de/_alt/buch/lesen.htm  ( 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. Retrieved August 27, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hamburg.vvn-bda.de  
  4. ↑ http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=3755 Retrieved August 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mende, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mende, Otto Karl Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1944
Place of death Hamburg