Richard Klotz Books

Richard Klotzbücher (born May 23, 1902 , † April 10, 1945 in the Plötzensee prison , Berlin ) was a German worker and a victim of Nazi war justice.

Life and activity

Klotzbücher was the son of an innkeeper. After attending the community school, he initially worked in his parents' business. After 1920 he worked as an unskilled worker in a rolling mill in Düsseldorf . He later moved to Berlin, where he found employment as an unskilled worker at AEG in Huttenstrasse.

Before 1933, Klotzbuch was involved in the communist Red Aid as a cashier. At the end of the 1930s, he switched to the HR department at AEG Turbine. During the Second World War, he joined an illegal operating cell there, which was in contact with the group around Anton Saefkow , whose efforts were to through the external efforts of the Allied powers, especially the Soviet Union, aimed at the overthrow of the Nazi state to support domestic political actions to undermine the system in order to hasten the end of the war.

On February 22, 1945 he was arrested and taken to the Lehrter Strasse cell prison. After the Berlin Superior Court sentenced him to death for preparation for high treason , he was executed on April 10, 1945 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison.

Since April 2003, a stumbling stone in front of Huttenstrasse 12 in Berlin has been reminiscent of Klotzbücher.

Web links

• Short biography of Klotzbücher near Stolpersteine-Berlin