Persons of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization

The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization was one of the largest resistance organizations in Germany during the Second World War . It was formed in Berlin and had contacts in many other regions. It is therefore also referred to in the literature as the KPD's operational management . But not only communists belonged to the groups of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization .

Of the 506 known people, around 200 belonged to the KPD before 1933, 22 to the SPD or SAP and around 200 were non-party; every fourth was a woman. 160 men and women were unionized before 1933, over 60 of them in the DMV .

For the people who worked outside of Berlin, the respective location or region is indicated.

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

• Bernhard Almstadt (1897–1944), managing director of Arbeiter-Sport-Verlag, death sentence

• Judith Auer (1905–1944), stenographer, KWO , death sentence

B.

• Willi Bänsch (1908–1944), locksmith
• Elli Bänsch
• Bernhard Bästlein (1894–1944), precision mechanic, death sentence
• Karl Baier (1887–1973)
• Julius Balkow (1909–1973), mechanical engineer, sentenced to seven years in prison
• Gustav Basse (1894–1944), mechanic, engineer, executed on November 6, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison
• Richard Bergow (1896–?), Plasterer, arrested July 12, 1944, liberated April 14, 1945
• Ernst Beuthke (born March 3, 1903, † August 11, 1943 in the industrial courtyard of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp), fighter in Spain
• Charlotte Bischoff (1901–1994), shorthand clerk, Die Innere Front
• Margarete Blank (1901–1945), Leipzig, doctor
• Max Borrack (1901–1945), commercial agent, death sentence
• Marta Borrack , sentenced to two years in prison
• Hermann Bruse (1904–1953), Magdeburg, painter and graphic artist, death sentence

D.

• Hermann Danz (1906–1945), Magdeburg, blacksmith, death sentence

• Franz Demuth (1895–1971), Hamburg / Berlin

• Georg Dimentstein (1897–1945), Berlin, artist, death sentence

• Georg Dünninghaus (1893–1953), KPD functionary

E.

• Otto Engert (1895–1945), Leipzig, carpenter, death sentence

• Fritz Emrich (1894–1947), tailor

F.

• Siegfried Forstreuter (1914–1944), tool lathe operator in Berlin, KPD member, death sentence
• Alfred Frank (1884–1945), Leipzig, painter and graphic artist, death sentence

G

• Max Grabowski (1897–1981) The inner front
• Otto Grabowski (Berlin) , (1892–1961) The Inner Front

• Otto Grabowski (Wildau) , Wildau (1901–1944)
• Grete Groh-Kummerlöw (1909–1980), Plauen, textile worker

H

• Auguste Haase (1899–1945), Zepernick, death sentence

• Bruno Hämmerling (1896–1944), KWO , death sentence

• Willi Heinze (1910–1945), tailor, death sentence
• Wolfgang Heinze (1911–1945), Leipzig, lawyer, death sentence
• Reinhold Hermann (1885–1945), printer

• Willy Hielscher (1904–1945), death sentence
• Paul Hinze (1906–1945), butcher, death sentence, arrested in April 1944
• Paul Hirsch (1907–1945), toolmaker, arrested in July 1944, escaped on the way to the VGH , died in August 1945 while a Soviet prisoner of war

• Josef Höhn (1902–1945),
• Arthur Hoffmann (1900–1945), Leipzig
• Caesar Horn (1914-1945),

J

• Franz Jacob (1906–1944), machinist
• Hans Jendretzky (1897–1992), locksmith
• Paul Junius (1901–1944), machine fitter , Askania Werke , death sentence

K

• Hugo Kapteina (1903–1945), designer
• Gerhard Kaun (1911–1944)

• Hans Kiefer (1905–1966), carpenter
• Helene Kirsch (1906–1999), metal worker

• Karl Klodt

• Kurt Kresse (1904–1945), Leipzig
• Johannes Kreiselmaier (1892–1944), Senior Medical Officer, Berlin, sentenced to death by the People's Court

L.

• Karl Ladé (1909–1945), designer, Askania-Werke in Berlin-Mariendorf
• Maria Langner (1901–1967), writer, she was sentenced to prison
• Hugo Launicke (1909–1975), construction worker

• Georg Lehnig (1907–1945), mechanic
• Otto Lemm , Wildau
• Emil Leo , Frohnau
• Walter Leu (1908–1944), machine fitter
• Eva Lippold (1909–1994), Magdeburg, stenographer

M.

• Arthur Magnor , supported Willy Hielscher
• Hildegard Margis (1887–1944), author
• Hubert Materlik (1895–1944), worker

• Franz Moericke (1885–1956), model maker

N

• Theodor Neubauer (1890–1945), Thuringia, sociologist,
• Gertrud Neuhof (1901–1987), Frohnau, stenographer

• Erwin Nöldner (1913–1944), locksmith

P

• Johannes Pauka (1897–1945), saddler
• Rudolf Peter (1889–1945), bookbinder
• Fritz Plön (1906–1944), welder
• Magnus Poser (1907–1944), Thuringia
• Lydia Poser (1909–1984), Thuringia
• Erich Prenlau Niederlehme

R.

• Friedrich Rödel (1904–1945), Magdeburg

• Kurt Rühlmann (1903–1945), locksmith, death sentence

S.

• Georg Sacke (1902–1945), Leipzig, historian
• Anton Saefkow (1903-1944)
• Willi Sänger (1894–1944), worker sportsman, courier to Leipzig to the Schumann-Engert-Kresse Group , death sentence

• Johann Schellheimer (1899–1945), Magdeburg

• Jakob Schlör

• Alfred Schmidt (1891–1985), Leipzig, brewery worker
• Franz Schmidt , (? –1944), KWO , death sentence

• Paul Schütze , Wildau
• Egmont Schultz
• Marga Schumacher , Frohnau
• Georg Schumann (1886–1945), Leipzig, toolmaker, death sentence

• Martin Schwantes (1904–1945), Magdeburg
• Georg Schwarz (1896–1945), Leipzig

• Rudolf Seiffert (1908–1945), Siemens
• Wilhelm Selke (1893–1945), Ullstein, death sentence
• Hans Ludwig Sierks (1877–1945), Leipzig
• Ernst Siebert (1916–1994), The Inner Front
• Kurt Sindermann (1904–1945), Dresden

• Willi Stoph (1914–1999), bricklayer
• Johanna Steinbach (1894– after 1968), Kreuzberg, partner of Bruno Hämmerling and mother of Ursula Marx, survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp

• Stanislaus Szczygielski (1902–1945), death sentence

T

• Gertrud Temlitz , Schönow

• Ferdinand Thomas (1913–1944)

• Ella Trebe (1902-1943)

• Herbert Tschäpe (1913–1944),

V

• Elli Voigt (1912–1944), Schönow, death sentence
• Fritz Voigt (1906–?)

W.

• Helmut Wagner (1911–1944), executed in Brandenburg prison on December 4, 1944
• Marta Wagner
• Lisa Walter
• Georgi Vasilyev , organizer of resistance in several POW camps, the escape with the help of the early summer of 1944 Willy Hielscher and Arthur Magnor succeeded
• Gustav Wegener (1908–1944), death sentence
• Arthur Weisbrodt (1909–1944)
• Wilhelm White (1901–1946)
• Richard Wenzel (1904–1980)
• Emil Wölk (1903-1944)

Z

Memorial plaque for Paul Hirsch , Paul Junius , Karl Ladé , Kurt Rühlmann , Stanislaus Szczygielski , Hermann Wolff and Walter Zimmermann in Berlin-Mariendorf

• Walter Zimmermann ( February 8, 1910 Berlin - January 8, 1945 Brandenburg prison ). Zimmermann was a member of the SPD and worked as a precision mechanic at the Askania works in Mariendorf . There, together with Paul Hirsch , Paul Junius , Karl Ladé and a few other people who already knew each other from organized workers' sports, he formed the core of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization . Karl Lade, Kurt Rühlmann and Walter Zimmermann moved to the branch of the Askania works in Weißensee in 1943/44 , where they continued to be involved in the resistance. The group supported foreign forced laborers , collected food, medicine and clothing for them, distributed leaflets with news from " enemy broadcasters " about the actual course of the war and carried out a series of sabotage activities in the factory, which manufactured precision instruments essential for the war effort. 21 members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo during a wave of arrests , including Walter Zimmermann on July 25, 1944. They were charged with high treason , favoring the enemy and failing to report these crimes. All those arrested were sentenced by the People's Court on November 30, 1944 , four of them, Karl Ladé, Kurt Rühlmann, Stanislaus Szczygielski and Walter Zimmermann, to death.

• Gerhart Ziller (1912–1957), mechanical engineer, 1944–45 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and in Leipzig prison

• Paul Zobel (1891–1945), publishing editor

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

See also

• People of the "Red Chapel"
• Persons of July 20, 1944
• People of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group
• List of resistance fighters against National Socialism

literature

• Ursel Hochmuth : Illegal KPD and movement “Free Germany” in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945. Biographies and testimonials from the resistance organization around Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein. (= Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center. Series A, Analyzes and Representations, Volume 4); Hentrich and Hentrich: Teetz 1998, ISBN 3-933471-08-7
• Annette Neumann, Susanne Reveles, Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow: Berlin workers' resistance 1942–1945. "Away with Hitler - end the war!" The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization. Berlin Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisten und Antifaschistinnen eV: Berlin 2009
• Annette Neumann, Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow: The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization 1942 to 1945 , in: Hans Coppi , Stefan Heinz (ed.): The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers . Dietz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8 , pp. 144–157

Web links

• Ursel Hochmuth: HITLER'S WAR IS NOT OUR WAR!

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annette Neumann: Operating cells of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization
2. ↑ https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/biografie/2335
3. ↑ Wildauer Rundschau ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2011 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. 
4. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" capital of the Reich . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936872-94-5 , p. 588 .
5. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: The "other" capital of the Reich . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936872-94-5 , p. 592 .
6. ^ Annette Neumann: Operating cells of the Saefkow-Jacob-Baestein organization . Lecture on January 22, 2009 (PDF; 28 kB) pp. 6–8 , accessed on April 4, 2015 . 
7. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: The "other" capital of the Reich . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936872-94-5 , p. 592 .