Robert Dassau
Robert Dassau (born May 1, 1903 in Hamburg , † after 1947) was a German political functionary (KPD).
Life and activity
Dassau was the son of a tobacco worker. After attending school, he worked as a messenger and then as an unskilled worker at the Blohm & Voss shipyard . He later became a stoker.
Since 1919 Dassau was a member of the Free Socialist Youth (FSJ) and the Communist Youth of Germany (KJD). In 1926 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In this he initially took on voluntary functionary tasks in Hamburg-Barmbek.
From 1931 he worked in the operational reporting organization of the KPD's military apparatus.
In February 1934 Dassau emigrated to Moscow , where he was sent to KUNMS in Moscow by the exiled KPD (code name Hans Hagen). In October 1936 he was sent to the section management north (AL Nord) of the illegal KPD in Copenhagen, where he was mainly used as border post manager. In this position he worked closely with Kurt Granzow .
The National Socialist police officers classified Dassau as an enemy of the state in the spring of 1940 by the Reich Security Main Office on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the Wehrmacht, would find the following special SS commandos with special priority from the occupying forces should be made and arrested.
Shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in May 1940, Dassau was arrested by the occupation authorities in July 1940 and extradited to Germany in February 1941. The People's Court found him guilty on 31 July 1942, the preparation of high treason and sentenced him to fifteen years ' imprisonment . He spent his imprisonment first in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel prison , later in Rensburg and finally in Buchenwald concentration camp , from which he was liberated in April 1945.
Dassau was able to return to Denmark in December 1946. In 1947 he married his Danish partner, with whom he had had a child before 1940. He found work at the Burmeister & Wain shipyard . He was active in the Danish Communist Party and received Danish citizenship.
literature
- Michael F. Scholz : Would you like some Scandinavian experience? Post-exile and remigration. 2000, p. 59.
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notwithstanding, May 1, 1905 is also given as the date of birth. However, the latest edition of the Biographical Manual of the German Communists by Hermann Weber and Andreas Herbst (2008, p. 176), Michael F. Scholz (see below) and the special wanted list GB mention May 1, 1903.
- ^ Entry on Robert Dassau on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dassau, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political functionary (KPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1947 |