Paul Pohle (resistance fighter)

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Stumbling block for Paul Pohle in front of his last residential address, today's Pohlestrasse 12.

Paul Pohle (born November 4, 1883 in Cöpenick ; died June 21, 1933 in Berlin-Köpenick ) was a German former and social democrat who fell victim to the Köpenick Blood Week .

Life

Paul Pohle learned the trade of a moulder. For a few years he worked as a screwdriver for Thiele & Co. in Berlin-Kreuzberg. He was a member of the SPD, the German Metalworkers' Association and a functionary of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold . From around 1925 he was an assistant laboratory assistant in the pharmacy of the Köpenick hospital . At the end of March 1933 the Social Democrats Paul Ufermann and Maria Jankowski were severely mistreated by the SA in Köpenick . Her injuries were secretly photographed during the treatments in the Köpenick hospital and the images were taken abroad, where they were published as evidence of the violent actions of the National Socialists. Paul Pohle played a major role in the smuggling of this politically highly explosive material.

On June 21, 1933, in front of his apartment, SA storm 2/15 brought Pohle to the SA home “Demuth” opposite by SA storm leader Herbert Scharsich. Presumably he belonged to the group of people who were subsequently driven through the streets of Koepenick by the SA with their hands raised and then led back to the pub "Demuth". His 25 year old son Kurt followed the train to see where his father should be taken. He was recognized by the SA in the old town, beaten down and taken to the SA bar together with his father. Like his father, he too suffered severe abuse here. Pohle was tortured and murdered in the so-called “hayloft”. His body was found hanging in the forest near Schmöckwitz on July 17, 1933.

On February 12, 1934, the Central Public Prosecutor's Office put down the "proceedings in the Stelling , von Essen , Pokern und Pohle" death investigation .

Commemoration

  • 1948 "Pohlestraße" (before that Elisabethstraße)
  • On November 4, 2003, the memorial plaque at Pohle-Straße 12 by District Mayor Dr. Klaus Ulbricht revealed.
  • On December 2, 2003, Stolperstein was moved to Pohle-Strasse 12.

literature

  • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker Blood Week June 1933 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958. (47 pages)
    • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker blood week June 1933 with an appendix of the victims . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960, pp. 30, 35, 63, 65. (103 pp.)
  • Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, p. 303.
  • BdA Köpenick (ed.): Commemoration and warning - against forgetting, In memory of the children, women and men persecuted by Nazi terror in the Berlin-Köpenick district from 1933 to 1945 . Berlin 2001, p. 23.
  • Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow . German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 2010, pp. 29, 31, 36, 302. (= Series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Volume 9) ISBN 3-926082-03-8 . Digitized
  • Stefan Hördler (Hrsg.): SA-Terror as security of rule: “Köpenicker Blutwoche” and public violence under National Socialism . Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3863311339 .
  • Gunther Geserick, Klaus Vendura, Ingo Wirth: contemporary witness death. Spectacular forensic medicine cases . 6th edition. Militzke Verlag, 2011. Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-86189-628-9 Digitized in part
  • Pohle, Paul . In: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 6. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 71. ISBN 3-89626-356-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 .
  2. ^ "Paul Ufermann, already active in the SPD and in the Reichsbund of the German press before 1933, worked after 1945 for the SPD newspaper 'Das Volk', which was published in East Berlin; In 1946 he joined the SED and became editor-in-chief of the SED newspaper 'Vorwärts'. "(Bernd Sösemann: Emil Dovifat . Studies and documents on life and work . De Gruyter Berlin 1998, p. 329.)
  3. ↑ Marion Goers.
  4. ↑ Born on January 12, 1903 in Berlin.
  5. ↑ Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat, p. 35.
  6. ^ Franz Osterroth.
  7. ↑ Stefan Hördler, p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Pohle, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat, trade unionist, victim of the Köpenick blood week
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cöpenick
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Koepenick