Siegfried Forstreuter

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Commemorative plaque installed by the staff of the Friedrich Stolzenberg & Co. gear factory on the former factory premises in Berlin-Reinickendorf, Saalmannstrasse 9

Siegfried Forstreuter , sometimes faulty Forstreuther (born April 18, 1914 in Berlin ; † October 30, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Forstreuter, a tool lathe operator, was a member of the KPD and the “Fichte” workers' sports club . From the marriage with Hildegard, geb. Wildbrett, which he closed on September 25, 1937, had a son born in September 1944.

For since the common time when workers' sports club Heinz Rosenberg, the because of its known him Jewish ancestry the deportation threatened rented Forstreuter 1942 a store in Berlin-Neukölln, where he could hide.

Both belonged to a resistance group led by Anton Saefkow , Bernhard Bästlein and Franz Jacob against the National Socialist rulers , which agitated against the war in Berlin armaments factories .

Forstreuter had contacts in the Army Equipment Office . He coordinated the workers there who were prepared to resist with the group around Saefkow.

Together with Harry Harder , Karl Lüdtke and Waldemar Hentze , Forstreuter belonged to a KPD company cell around master Max Sauer in the gear factory Friedrich Stolzenberg & Co. GmbH in Berlin-Reinickendorf . The company group was part of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization and met several times with Saefkow and others in the apartments of Forstreuter, Harder and Lüdtke for discussions. Among other things, she organized acts of sabotage against war production.

In July 1944 Forstreuter, Lüdtke and Harder were arrested and sentenced to death by the People's Court . On October 30, 1944 Forstreuter was executed in the Brandenburg prison .

Appreciation

  • 1946: Memorial plaque in Berlin-Reinickendorf, Saalmannstraße 9 (on the left side of house 2)

literature

  • Ursel Hochmuth : Illegal KPD and movement “Free Germany” in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945. Biographies and testimonials from the resistance organization around Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein . Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Series A (analyzes and representations), Vol. 4. Verlag Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-933471-08-6 .
  • Martin Schönfeld: Memorial plaques in West Berlin . Series of publications of the Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin e. V., Vol. 6. Berlin 1993.
  • Johannes Tuchel :   "... and the rope is waiting for all of you.": The cell prison at Lehrter Strasse 3 after July 20, 1944 . Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Series A (analyzes and representations), Vol. 7. Lukas Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-178-5 . Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name register for the letter F. In: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945 - A biographical lexicon. trafo Verlag, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Fieber, Klaus Klein, René Mounajed, Günter Wehner: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . tape 11 , first supplementary volume, letter A - J. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89626-350-6 , p. 176 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Rosenberg. In: Stolpersteine ​​in Berlin. Coordination Office Stolpersteine ​​Berlin Dr. Silvija Kavčič, accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Johannes Tuchel: "... and the rope is waiting for all of them.": The cell prison Lehrter Strasse 3 after July 20, 1944 . In: Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Series A (analyzes and representations) . tape 7 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-178-5 , pp. 179 f .
  5. ^ Oskar Olschewski. In: Stolpersteine ​​in Berlin. Coordination Office Stolpersteine ​​Berlin Dr. Silvija Kavčič (Head), accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Karl Lüdtke, Siegfried Forstreuther, Harry Harder, Waldemar Hentze. In: Memorial plaques in Berlin. German Resistance Memorial Center, 2014, accessed on August 3, 2017 .
  7. ^ Annette Neumann: Operating cells of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization. IG Metall Berlin, January 22, 2009, accessed on August 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Forstreuter, Siegfried. In: Edition Luisenstadt. October 7, 2009, accessed August 3, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Forstreuter's surname is incorrectly given on the plaque as Forstreuther.
personal data
SURNAME Forstreuter, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forstreuther, Siegfried (incorrectly written surname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel