Otto Schalk

Otto Schalk (born April 15, 1902 in Augsburg , † 1981 ) was a German resistance fighter . He fought in the Third Reich with other fighters such as B. Bebo Wager against the Nazi regime and against Adolf Hitler .

Role in resistance

Otto Schalk, son of a shepherd from the Aichach district , worked as an unskilled worker and driver in various companies after his apprenticeship as a brewer. In 1928 he became a KPD and RFB member. In 1932 and 1933 he was sentenced to several months' imprisonment for "inciting soldiers" and illicit possession of weapons. In the early 1930s, Schalk played a crucial role in the communist underground of the city of Augsburg. In May 1934 he was arrested and accused of trying to rebuild the KPD sub-district of Augsburg with help from Munich and Switzerland. He was therefore imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp until 1936 . Schalk survived this imprisonment and came back to Augsburg. He lived there in the Augsburg-Oberhausen district and joined the MAN group of the "Augsburg Revolutionary Socialists" around Wager, for which he recruited other former comrades of the KPD. After the resistance group was exposed, he was arrested on April 15 or 16, 1942 and sentenced in September 1943 by the Munich Higher Regional Court to a prison term of 2 years and 6 months.

Honors after the war

He was honored by the city of Augsburg by naming a street on the site of the former Sheridan barracks , the Sheridan area , which has been bearing his name ever since .

Web links

Official Journal of the City of Augsburg (PDF; 280 kB) Number 26 - June 29, 2007, with the reasons for the honor for Otto Schalk

Individual evidence

↑ Places of remembrance, street names after resistance fighters and victims of the fascist tyranny on vvn-augsburg.de; accessed on January 28, 2016
^ Hartmut Mehringer : The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance . Bavaria in the Nazi era, Volume 5, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1983, pp. 184ff + 407ff
↑ Martin Broszat et al .: Rule and Society in Conflict, Part 2 . Bavaria in the Nazi era, Volume 3, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1981, pp. 202ff
↑ Naming of the streets in the area of the former Sheridankaserne ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2007 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. Short biography of Otto Schalk @1@ 2

^ Streets of resistance fighters and victims of the National Socialist tyranny. Homepage of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) - Augsburg District Association

personal data
SURNAME	Schalk, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	1981

[1] Places of remembrance, street names after resistance fighters and victims of the fascist tyranny on vvn-augsburg.de; accessed on January 28, 2016

[2] Hartmut Mehringer : The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance . Bavaria in the Nazi era, Volume 5, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1983, pp. 184ff + 407ff

[3] Martin Broszat et al .: Rule and Society in Conflict, Part 2 . Bavaria in the Nazi era, Volume 3, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1981, pp. 202ff

[4] Naming of the streets in the area of the former Sheridankaserne ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2007 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. Short biography of Otto Schalk @1@ 2

[5] Streets of resistance fighters and victims of the National Socialist tyranny. Homepage of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) - Augsburg District Association