Paul Sasnowski

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Paul Sasnowski (born March 7, 1903 in Rosenberg in West Prussia , † February 25, 1944 in Mogiljow ) was a communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Sasnowski grew up in West Prussia and attended elementary school there . His parents were workers in industry and agriculture. After the separation of Pommerellen from German territory as a result of the lost World War I, the family moved to Bochum , where the mother came from. There Sasnowski completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and worked in the Carolinenglück colliery . In 1924 he moved to Parchim , where his sister had married, and worked in the record factory in Boizenburg (Duensing-Bicheroux-Werke) until 1926 . Between 1926 and 1929 he found work at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg and at the Leuna works in Merseburg. In 1929 he returned to Parchim and settled down. In Parchim, Sasnowski was involved in the trade union and joined the KPD in 1930 . In 1931 he lost his permanent job and had to hire out odd jobs on the railroad and in forestry. In 1931 he married Juliane Kopek from Rostock, and the couple had their first child in the same year.

After the NSDAP came to power , Sasnowski was arrested several times and worked illegally for the KPD. In 1934 he was sentenced to two years in prison in a high treason trial, most of which he spent in Bützow prison. After his release from prison in 1936, he worked in Berlin, but his family stayed in Parchim. In 1938 the family moved to Niederaula in Hesse. As a political opponent who had served his prison sentence, Sasnowski was considered “unworthy of defense” and was not called up for the Wehrmacht when the war began in 1939 .

In the fall of 1941, he was instead the Organization Todt (OT) conscripted . Sasnowski worked for a road construction company from Hersfeld that built roads for the Wehrmacht in Belarus on behalf of OT . First he was employed as a driver, then as a foreman with responsibility for individual construction phases. Most of his subordinate workers were locals, whom Sasnowski treated well to the best of his ability. At the end of 1943 the partisan movement made contact with him, with which he worked from now on. Among other things, Sasnowski passed on information about German troop movements and the deployment of units and supplies to the Soviet Partisan Group 122. After his return from home leave at Christmas 1943 Sasnowski was arrested in Belarus and on 27 January 1944 by a court martial of Feldkommandantur 813 (Staff of the 4th Army ) because of " war treason sentenced to death". Less than a month later, the sentence was carried out by shooting . Sasnowski left a wife and three children.

Aftermath

In the GDR , the following places and organizations were named after Sasnowski:

  • Paul Sasnowski-Straße in Parchim, renamed Bergstraße after 1990
  • VEB Hydraulik Nord "Paul Sasnowski", Parchim
  • Artillery Regiment 5 "Paul Sasnowski", Dabel , named in 1975 after Sasnowski.

Until 1990 there was a memorial plaque for Paul Sasnowski on his home in Parchim at Alte Mauerstraße 21 . The Sasnowski estate is kept in the Schwerin State Main Archives.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karl Heinz Jahnke : Murdered and extinguished . Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, pp. 93-96.
  2. ↑ Defense Act of May 21, 1935, Section 13 (unworthy of military service).
  3. ↑ Wolfram Rothe: Fired: from Stallberg via Drögeheide to Dabel: the artillery regiment 5 of the NVA . HW-Verlag, Neubrandenburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-9810937-2-8 , p. 70.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Puvogel, Stefanie Endlich: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism . Federal Agency for Political Education, Berlin 1995, p. 448.
  5. ↑ Paul Sasnowski in the estate database
personal data
SURNAME Sasnowski, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg in West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1944
Place of death Mogilev