Paul Dreibrodt

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Paul Dreibrodt (born July 19, 1905 in Köllitsch , † May 28, 1945 in Bützow ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Dreibrodt learned the profession of carpenter after attending primary school . As a young man he joined the Communist Youth Association and later the KPD and became involved against the emergence of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he continued his resistance activities illegally in contact with the resistance group Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen , which he joined in 1942. This happened with the knowledge and participation of his sister Grete and his own wife of the same name. So they hid the Harburg resistance fighter Karl Kock , who was wanted with a profile . When the Gestapo became aware of their actions, Dreibrodt was ver on March 5, 1943 is liable . After that, a court convicted him of "conspiracy to high treason" to six years in prison detention , which he in Celle had to settle. As the Allied liberators drew closer in 1945, the Gestapo took Dreibrodt and other prisoners to the Bützow-Dreibergen prison in Mecklenburg , where he died in May of the consequences of his imprisonment.

His widow Grete became involved after the liberation from National Socialism for the remembrance of the resistance and made a first Harburg death list together. She helped with the creation of the book " Streiflichter from the Hamburg Resistance 1933-1945 ". She was also one of the authors of the anthology » The Others «, which reports on the resistance in Harburg and Wilhelmsburg . She died in a nursing home at the age of 100.

Paul Dreibrodt was married and the father of his son Heinz.

Honor

Stumbling stone in front of Dreibrodt's house

On December 13, 2008, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of Dreibrodt's house at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse 30 in the Wilstorf district of the Hamburg-Harburg district .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Meyer: Grete Dreibrodt died. (PDF; 830 kB) In: antifa. Supplement May / June 2008. VVN-BdA , May 8, 2008, p. 8 , accessed on November 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Paul Dreibrodt, Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg , accessed on November 6, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Dreibrodt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollitsch
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1945
Place of death Bützow