Richard Tennigkeit

Richard Tennigkeit (born September 5, 1900 in Stettin ; † December 12, 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Tennigkeit came from a simple social background in a Pomeranian family. In 1910 he moved to Hamburg with his family . Here he finished attending primary school , which was followed by an apprenticeship as a lathe operator. He joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), in which he was active against the emerging National Socialism . At the same time he was a member of the metal workers' union and chairman for the shipyard apprentices in his company . From 1926 to 1933 he was a community representative for the SPD in Hamburg-Berne . In 1933 he married Käthe Schlichting , whom he had met in the metalworkers' union.

After the beginning of the Second World War , both joined the resistance group “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ” and supported persecuted communists who had to hide from the Gestapo and live illegally . So temporarily lived Gustav Bruhn hidden in the family Tennigkeit.

When the Gestapo became aware of this, the couple were arrested in February 1944. Käthe Tennigkeit was transferred to the Gestapo prison in Fuhlsbüttel , where she died after being tortured . Richard Tennigkeit was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp, where he fell ill with typhus in late 1944 . Because he was poorly nourished and received medical care, he died there on December 12, 1944.

Honors

Since 1985 the Tennigkeitweg in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel has been a reminder of the resistance of the married couple Käthe and Richard Tennigkeit.
In his memory, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of her last address at Moschlauer Kamp 24 in the garden city of Berne in Farmsen-Berne .

Web links

Richard Tennigkeit's biography (PDF; 2.7 MB) Retrieved September 9, 2011
Björn Eggert: Short biography of Richard Tennigkeit at stolpersteine-hamburg.de

Individual evidence

^ Jürgen Mirow: Poppenbüttel. Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 978-3-833-40169-5 , p. 77. Limited preview in Google Book Search
↑ Rita Bake: Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women. ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, from August 2011 (PDF file)

personal data
SURNAME	Tennigkeit, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	5th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1944
Place of death	Neuengamme concentration camp

[books-PlbmnMw2HqMC-77-1] Jürgen Mirow: Poppenbüttel. Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 978-3-833-40169-5 , p. 77. Limited preview in Google Book Search

[2] Rita Bake: Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women. ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, from August 2011 (PDF file)