Walter Budeus

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Walter Budeus
Stolperstein , Am Fölzberg 9, in Berlin-Lübars

Walter Budeus (born October 29, 1902 in Zossen ; † August 21, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a machinist , Budeus joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1931 . As a former member of the KPD, however, he did not find work until 1936 in the German weapons and ammunition factories (DWM) in Berlin . Since 1933 he participated in the fight against the Nazi regime.

From 1936 onwards, Budeus had built an illegal factory cell to which over fifty workers belonged. In the late 1930s, Budeus worked closely with Robert Uhrig and Franz Mett . In addition to this he was one of the leading communist resistance fighters in Berlin after 1939 and at the same time belonged to the illegal Berlin leadership. Uhrig and Budeus collected information about the mood of the population and the armaments industry, wrote leaflets and established connections with other communist resistance groups, including the groups around Walter Homann and Karl Behrens . The resistance group organized by Budeus at the DWM, made up of communists, social democrats and non-party workers, consisted of more than 80 members at the beginning of the Second World War .

After the attack on the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941), the danger of being discovered increased. In February 1942 Budeus was arrested and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and in the Brandenburg prison. He was sentenced to death by the People's Court on June 7, 1944 and beheaded with the guillotine on August 21, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison .

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 472.
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Friedrichshain and Lichtenberg . Volume 11 of the SR of the GDW, Berlin 1998.
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee . Volume 12 of the SR of the GDW, Berlin 2000.
  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 .
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 , p. 400 ff.

Web links

Commons : Walter Budeus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mammach: Resistance 1939-1945: History of the German anti-fascist resistance movement within the country and in exile . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7609-1082-3 , p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Budeus, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and communist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Zossen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel