Richard Gohert

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Richard Gohert (born October 6, 1895 , † November 18, 1944 in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of fascism .

Life

Gohert learned the trade of machine fitter after attending primary school . During the Weimar Republic , he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emergence of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he continued his resistance work illegally . In the Harburg iron and bronze works he got in touch with the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ", where he and his comrade Wilhelm Stein founded and directed a KPD company cell . After the start of the Second World War , they provided practical help to foreign forced laborers and carried out information about the actual course of the war, independently of Nazi propaganda. The factory air protection , which was composed of people from the resistance conspiratorially , chose u. a. Reliable comrades like Gohert from air raid guards , who were given the opportunity to sabotage machines and systems in times of air alarms . When the Gestapo smashed the Bästlein organization, Gohert was arrested, taken to the Fuhlsbüttel police prison and interrogated under torture . Then he was charged with high treason and convicted together with Wilhelm Stein, Heinrich Wadle and Heinrich Hartig before the People's Court . Richard Gohert died in the Gestapo prison from the consequences of his imprisonment.

Honors

Stumbling stone in front of Gohert's house
  • On June 30, 2003, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of Gohert's house at Flebbestrasse 50 . A second stone in his memory was laid on Harburg Freudenberger Seevestrasse in front of Gate 2 of his former company.

literature

  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance 1933-1945
  • Beate Meyer , Institute for the History of German Jews (Germany): The persecution and murder of Hamburg's Jews 1933–1945: history, testimony, memory

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Puls: The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group. Dietz, 1959, p. 52. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Werner Röhr: Death or Survival? Edition Organon, 2001, ISBN 978-3-931034-03-0 limited preview in Google Book Search
  3. ↑ Stolpersteine ( memento of October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Gohert, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1895
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1944
Place of death Fuhlsbüttel police prison