Rudolf Mokry

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Memorial stone in Rostock
Stolperstein in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
Street sign to Richard Mokry in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg

Rudolf Mokry (born April 24, 1905 in Klockow , Mecklenburg ; † October 11, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German locksmith, athlete, communist and resistance fighter.

Life

Mokry grew up in Rostock . Here he visits the old town school. The father worked as a blacksmith and the mother worked as a cook . He joined the children's group of the Rostock Workers' Gymnastics Club. At the age of 14 he switched to the workers 'athletes' club. He particularly liked wrestling , but he also trained swimming and apparatus gymnastics as a recreational sport . He began an apprenticeship as a blacksmith. In addition, he was actively involved in sports and after work took part in the construction of the workers' sports stadium, today 's Volksstadion . The economic crisis forced him to leave Rostock and his new home was Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg . In 1927 he found work as a locksmith in Hamburg and joined the workers' sports club “Fichte” in Hamburg-Neuhof. There he took part in the fight against the Nazi regime . Imprisoned for the first time in Lüneburg in 1933 , he built up an anti-fascist youth group in 1935 , which included young communists , social democrats , young Jewish people and Christians . During hikes in the northern heath , he also taught them the martial arts technique of ju-jutsu as a defense technique against attacks by the Hitler Youth and SA . In 1936 he was released again after being arrested again, and on April 22, 1937 he was sentenced to six years in prison for high treason . He was serving his sentence in Bremen-Oslebshausen . On October 22, 1941, his discharge papers were issued. But instead of gaining freedom, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . There he was a member of the illegal camp committee. On October 11, 1944, Mokry was murdered along with three French and 23 Germans, including Mathias Thesen .

In Rostock, a memorial stone in the Barnstorfer Forest commemorates Rudolf Mokry. In Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg in 1989 on the initiative which was Communist Party German Wilhelmsburg a part of the industrial road in Mokrystraße renamed, also was at the initiative of the association "For a Social Wilhelmsburg" in 2013 in the street Otter hook 5 a stumbling block laid.

literature

  • Stefanie Endlich u. a .: Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. Vol. 2 .: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia . Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-89331-391-5 , p. 465

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who was Rudolf Mokry, Flyer, Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime / Bund der Antifaschisten, Rostock
personal data
SURNAME Mokry, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German locksmith, sportsman, communist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Klockow , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1944
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp