Theodor Skorzisko

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Theodor Skorzisko (born September 9, 1899 in Raschlowitz , district Neustadt OS ; † 1941 according to official death declaration) was a communist politician. Between 1931 and 1932 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament . As a resistance fighter , he was a victim of National Socialism.

Life

After graduating from elementary school, Skorzisko first attended an agricultural college, but then worked as an electrician. In September 1931 he was a deputy of the Communist Party elected to the Hamburg Parliament. However, he left after the new elections in April 1932, when the KPD lost nine seats. During his short membership in the citizenry, he was a member of the “Commission for fixing rents” and held the office of deputy member of the board of the “Hamburgische Beleihungskasse für Hypotheken”.

After the takeover of the Nazis and the banning of the KPD he was a political leader of a party cell in Eppendorf on. He was taken into " protective custody " twice , first on May 15, 1933 for five months and the second time at the end of March 1934. On September 15, 1934 he was arrested again, charged with illegal political activity and sentenced in 1935 to 18 months in prison. Immediately after his release, after a short stay with relatives in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia, he emigrated via Poland to Czechoslovakia . 1936 broke off contact with his family.

In 1939, in view of the illegal occupation of the Czech Republic by the National Socialists, he fled to Paris, where he is said to have been active in emigrant circles until 1940. In early 1940 he was admitted to a Paris hospital with severe pneumonia. The stages of his further life are unclear. He may have been arrested by the French police and died in an internment camp after the German occupation of Paris .

Skorzisko left a wife and two sons. After the end of the Second World War, he was declared dead at the request of the bereaved, and the date of his death was December 31, 1941.

Posthumous honors

Stumbling block for Theodor Skorzisko in front of the Hamburg City Hall

In memory of the murdered members of the Hamburg citizenship, Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block for Theodor Skorzisko on June 8, 2012, to the left of the main entrance of the Hamburg town hall .

literature

  • Jörn Lindner, Frank Müller: Members of the citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 2012, DNB 1023694999 , pp. 81-82.
  • Skorzisko, Theodor . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jörn Lindner, Frank Müller: Members of the citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution . 3rd revised and expanded edition, Hamburgische Bürgerschaft, Hamburg 2012, p. 82, and footnote 125.
  2. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg. New stumbling blocks from June 2012
personal data
SURNAME Skorzisko, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Raschlowitz
DATE OF DEATH 1941