Rolf Axen

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Rolf Axen , actually Rudolf Aksen , (born February 8, 1912 in Tarnopol , Galicia, † September 23, 1933 in Dresden ) was a communist functionary and a victim of National Socialism . He was the brother of Hermann Ax .

Life

Grave in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden

Axen was a trained locksmith and was active in the communist youth movement. In the 1930s he became political secretary of the KPD sub-association in Upper Lusatia . After the National Socialists came to power , Axen went underground and headed the KPD Association of East Saxony. He was apprehended in September 1933 and murdered on September 23, 1933 during interrogation at the Dresden Police Headquarters . His grave is in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden.

Honors

In the GDR , Axen was named after several streets and schools by the SED , especially in Saxony . These names, including in Leipzig and Zittau , were largely changed again after 1990. Only in Leipzig- Kleinzschocher a street still bears his name, in Zittau there is a memorial plaque.

A memorial stone was placed for him in the memorial of the socialists in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945. Berlin 1970 Volume 1, p. 63ff
  • Frank Thiele (ed.): New Jewish cemetery in Dresden's Johannstadt . Hille, Dresden 2002, p. 107f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See gravestone; Certified obituary from the Dresden Police Headquarters from September 27, 1933, according to which Axen “probably died at two o'clock in the afternoon” on September 23, 1933. Dresden City Archives, via ancestrylibrary.org
personal data
SURNAME Axen, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aksen, Rudolf (real name); Axen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD functionary and victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnopol , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1933
Place of death Dresden