Walter Gersmann

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Walter Willy Carl Gersmann (born December 5, 1914 in Hamburg ; † late 1942 in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Gersmann learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of gardener . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emerging National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he emigrated to the Soviet Union via Denmark . He was then expropriated by the Nazi authorities . His German citizenship was also revoked. He was trained as a parachutist by the GRU . In the Spanish Civil War he fought with the republican troops against the Franco putschists. After the beginning of the Second World War , he and other jumpers were dropped off over German territory. He was arrested together with his comrade Wilhelm Trapp . When he was interrogated by the Gestapo , he initially agreed to work with the Gestapo and, together with other agents , allowed himself to be smuggled into the " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen " resistance group as an informant. When the Gestapo broke up the Bästlein group, according to the Gestapo report, he wanted to go abroad from his later interrogation. The report also noted that he had stated "... he was still too much of a communist to play his comrades into the hands of the state police". He was executed at the end of 1942 on the orders of the Gestapo.

literature

  • Simone Barck : Antifa story (s) . books.google.de
  • Michael Hepp (ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . tape 2 : Name register. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / New York 1985, ISBN 978-3-598-10539-5 , pp. 86-107 (reprinted 2010).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kinematographie.de Retrieved August 23, 2011
  2. ↑ Hans Frederik: Herbert Wehner. The end of his legend . Political Archive Landshut 1982
  3. ↑ kinematographie.de Retrieved August 23, 2011
  4. ↑ akens.org Retrieved August 23, 2011
  5. ↑ Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933-1945 . Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7 , pp. 341-386
personal data
SURNAME Gersmann, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gersmann, Walter Willy Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter and agent of the GRU military intelligence service
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Fuhlsbüttel police prison