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Richard Teichgräber (born August 5, 1884 in Dahlen near Oschatz , † February 25, 1945 in Mauthausen ) was a German trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.

Life

Pond digger did an apprenticeship as a locksmith. In 1906 he joined the SPD . From 1919 to 1925 he was a city councilor in Leipzig and at the same time chairman of the supervisory board of the Volkshaus Leipzig . In 1927 he became district manager of the German Metalworkers' Association .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he illegally continued his trade union work. He was arrested on December 15, 1934 and taken to the Oranienburg concentration camp in April 1935 . He was released in December 1935, but arrested again in early January 1936. He was charged with high treason and sentenced on October 6, 1937 by the “ People's Court ” in Berlin to three and a half years in prison. After serving this sentence, he was taken into “ protective custody ”. He was sent to various concentration camps, including the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1944 , then to the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps and, from January 25, 1945, to the Mauthausen concentration camp .

Richard Teichgräber was probably murdered on February 25, 1945; According to the Book of the Dead, he allegedly died of a weak heart.

memory

In the Paul Hertz settlement near the Plötzensee memorial , the pond grave line was named after him.

literature

  • Peter Rütters, Siegfried Mielke : Richard Teichgräber (1884-1945) , In: Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz (ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers: Functionaries of the German Metal Workers' Association in the Nazi State. Resistance and persecution (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - resistance - emigration. Volume 1). Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-059-2 , pp. 103-120.

Web links

  • Short biography at the Evangelical Church Community of Charlottenburg-Nord

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin.de - Teichgräberzeile accessed on January 22, 2010
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 38.
  3. ^ Line of pond graves. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Pond diggers, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and resistance fighters against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahlen near Oschatz
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1945
Place of death Mauthausen