Walter Hering

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Walter Hering (born September 30, 1910 in Schöna ; † May 11, 1937 in Pirna ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Hering became a member of the KPD local group Reinhardtsdorf in 1930 . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he took part in the illegal work of the KPD. He helped with the takeover and forwarding of forbidden writings that were smuggled in from Czechoslovakia by the group around Walter Richter and Arno Hering . These included the anti-fascist weekly "Der Gegen-Attack", which was printed in Prague from 1933 onwards.

On September 15, 1934, Hering was arrested by the Gestapo in Schöna and initially taken to the police prison in Dresden . A Gestapo man had quartered himself in Schoena as a holiday guest and had contacted Hering. He had a forged party book with him and was able to gain trust in Herring. Hering was later brought to Berlin with Bernhard Geißler and Walter Biener . There Hering was sentenced to three years in prison by the 1st Senate of the “ People's Court ” on April 27, 1935 for his involvement in the illegal reconstruction work of the KPD in the Sandstone Mountains district , which he served in Bautzen and the Waldheim prison. Having become completely apathetic in prison, Hering was transferred to the state sanatorium and nursing home in Pirna-Sonnenstein , which was responsible for him . He died there on May 11, 1937.

Honors

• On May 1, 1946, the community of Schöna named a street after him. After the fall of the Wall, Walter-Hering-Strasse was renamed Am Feldrain .
• In Schöna, a memorial stone from 1948 on the glass forge (house no. 50) commemorates the resistance fighters Walter Hering and Bernhardt Geißler .

literature

• Author collective: Chronicle 1933–1945. On the history of the anti-fascist resistance struggle on the territory of the former Pirna administration . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, district leadership Pirna, committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR district committee Pirna / Sebnitz 1983.
• District leadership of the SED Pirna, Commission for the Investigation of the history of the local labor movement (ed.): Memorials, monuments, memorials and Mahnstätten the labor movement and the anti-fascist resistance movement in the circle Pirna . 2nd revised edition, Pirna 1984.