Reinhold Gotze

Reinhold Götze (* 1904 , † 1966 ) was a German fighter in the resistance against National Socialism and later SED politician.

Life

Götze joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD for short) in 1922 . After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was from 1933 involved in the formation of working in the underground Communist Party. In 1936 he took part in poster campaigns calling for the overthrow of the Nazi dictatorship. After arrest and torture, he was a prisoner in the prison in Coswig (Anhalt) for two years . He was then imprisoned in the Papenburg concentration camp in Börgermoor and from 1938 in the Buchenwald concentration camp . Here he belonged to the illegal party activity of the KPD and was involved in the support of the liberation by the 3rd US Army .

After 1945 he worked in the district leadership of the SED in the Magdeburg district of the GDR .

In the time of the GDR, a street and a school were named after him in Magdeburg . After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , both were renamed. On May 6, 1955, Gotze was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for his work as party secretary of the SED district school in Magdeburg .

Individual evidence

↑ Monika Zorn (Ed.): Hitler's victims twice killed. West German final solution of anti-fascism in the area of the GDR . Ahriman-Verlag, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-89484-401-9 , p. 243 ( Unwanted books on fascism 6).

personal data
SURNAME	Gotze, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighter against National Socialism, politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH	1904
DATE OF DEATH	1966

[1] Monika Zorn (Ed.): Hitler's victims twice killed. West German final solution of anti-fascism in the area of the GDR . Ahriman-Verlag, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-89484-401-9 , p. 243 ( Unwanted books on fascism 6).