Waldemar Hentze

Waldemar Hentze (born December 2, 1902 in Berlin ; † February 18, 1945 in St. Georgen-Bayreuth prison ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Before 1933, Hentze, a lathe operator , was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Red Front Fighters League . He led a children's group. Hentze was married and lived in Berlin-Reinickendorf . He worked at the gear factory Friedrich Stolzenberg & Co. and had belonged to the illegal KPD company cell around Max Sauer and Siegfried Forstreuter since 1944 . The operating group was part of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization and organized, among other things, the disruption of war production.

On July 11, 1944, Hentze was arrested. On December 14, 1944, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the 1st Senate of the “ People's Court ”.

On February 7, 1945, he was transported from the prison by barge and freight train to Bayreuth and arrived there completely exhausted. Hentze died on February 18, 1945 in St. Georgen prison.

Honors

• In January 1946, the employees of the Stolzenberg company put a memorial plaque on the factory gate at Saalmannstrasse 9 in honor of their four dead colleagues - Karl Lüdtke , Siegfried Forstreuther, Harry Harder and Waldemar Hentze.

literature

• Ursel Hochmuth : Illegal KPD and movement “Free Germany” in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945 . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-933471-08-7 , p. 157.