Richard Assmann (Works Council)

Portrait bust of Richard Aßmann by Wolfgang Eckardt (1978) in Graal-Müritz

Richard Julius Karl Assmann (born December 16, 1875 in Berlin ; † June 20, 1933 in Berlin-Köpenick ) was a German works council chairman of the AOK Berlin and district leader of the Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold . Assmann was a member of the SPD .

Life

Memorial plaque on Aßmannstrasse 46, in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

The employee Richard Assmann was a member of the SPD . During the Weimar Republic , he was elected chairman of the works council by the employees of the AOK Berlin. Because of his anti-Hitler and anti-fascist attitude as district leader of the Reichsbanner, he was dragged from the tram by the SA on June 20, 1933, tortured and murdered in an SA bar. He is considered the first victim of the Köpenick Blood Week . One of his murderers was Fritz Liebenhagen, as a 1950 trial showed. His body was found on July 11, 1933 on the Dahme . “Our comrade Richard Assmann, Köpenick's Reichsbannerführer, never returned. His unrecognizable body was found tied in a sack in the Dahme. Since his widow was unable to identify the body, my father accompanied his daughter, Hilde Assmann, on this difficult journey. The deceased could only be identified by the clock. ”He was buried in the central cemetery in Friedrichsfelde .

Aßmann's daughter Hildegard (October 10, 1907 to August 19, 1989) had been married to the KPD and later SED functionary Alexander Abusch since 1931. Richard Assmann was married to Selma and had two children: Hildegard and Kurt.

Commemoration

Stumbling block Richard Assmann

• In Graal-Müritz there is a memorial stone and a bust of Assmann.
• In Berlin-Friedrichshagen , Aßmannstrasse was named in 1947 after the anti-fascist Aßmann; a memorial plaque and a stumbling block can be found at Aßmannstraße 46 (formerly Friedrich-Straße 114).

literature

• Bartholomew Night in Koepenick . In: Brown book on Reichstag fire and Hitler terror . First published under the title Livre Brun sur l'incendie du Reichstag et le terreur hitlerìenne . With a foreword by Lord Marley. Edition Carrefour Paris 1933, pp. 330–331. At the same time, editions in German were published by the Universum library in Basel and translations into the world's most important languages. (Lord Marley was an influential Labor politician) Digitized
• 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. (103 pages)
• Richard Assmann in memory . (Köpenick Blood Week 1933.). In: Köpenicker Heimatblatt , 1961, No. 1.
• RICHARD ASSMANN . In: Luise Kraushaar (ed.): German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 464–465, photography p. 467.
• Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow . German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1995, pp. 35, 54, 55, 62, 300. (= Series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Volume 9) ISBN 3-926082-03-8 . Digitized
• Christiane Hoss, Martin Schönfeld, Marion Neumann (eds.): Memorial plaques in Berlin. Places of remembrance of those persecuted by National Socialism 1991–2001 . Active Museum Association, Berlin 2002, p. 251.
• Assmann, Richard . In: Hans-Joachim Fieber (Hrsg.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 1. Trafo, Berlin 2004, p. 51.

Web links

Commons : Richard Assmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rudolf Hirsch : The Koepenick Blood Week. From the courtroom (pdf, 20.3 MB) reports on the “Trial against Plönzke and others” in the Daily Rundschau from June 6th to July 20th, 1950.
• Richard Assmann (SPD Berlin) with photography
• Richard Assmann - Association of Antifascists Köpenick with photography
• Stolperstein Richard Assmann (Stolpersteine ​​in Berlin) with photography and biography by Marion Goers
• Aßmann, Richard Julius Karl - Berlin Memorial
• Literature by and about Richard Assmann (works council) in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Hirsch July 8, 1950.
2. ↑ According to the information in his death certificate "in Berlin-Schmöckwitz on the Oder-Spree Canal near the Gosener Bridge". See Richard Assmann death certificate (VVN)
3. ↑ "At Schmöckwitz, fishermen found the body of the employee Assmann". (Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat (1960), p. 88.)
4. ^ "Two Reichsbanner people, Richard Assmann and Paul Pohle , had hung the SA in the woods near Köpenick." ( Franz Osterroth : Biographisches Lexikon des Sozialismus , Hannover 1960, p. 303.)
5. ↑ Selma Assmann, b. Head.
6. ^ Testimony of Hildegard Feil 1992. (Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 55.)
7. ^ Joachim Hoffmann : Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery - cultural and historical travel guide . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 115. ISBN 3-360-00959-2
8. ↑ The recreation center built in 1925 by the Berlin transport company in Graal-Müritz was used by the Soviet army as a hospital and rehabilitation facility after 1945. It was named after Richard Assmann in 1951 and converted into a sanatorium.
9. ↑ Memorial days of the Berlin SPD 2005 - SPD Berlin ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 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.