Walter Husemann

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Walter Husemann (born December 2, 1903 in Ellerbek near Kiel ; † May 13, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house, Florastraße 26, in Berlin-Pankow

Husemann grew up in Berlin. He learned the trade of toolmaker . After his apprenticeship, he organized a strike and was fired. In 1924 he joined the Communist Youth Association in Berlin-Pankow. In 1928 he joined the KPD and in 1929 became head of the Anti-Fascist Young Garden, the youth organization of the League against Fascism , in the Berlin-Brandenburg district. From 1930 to 1933 he worked as a trainee and editor at communist newspapers in Berlin ( Die Rote Fahne ), Essen ( Ruhr-Echo ), Cologne ( Socialist Republic ) and Mannheim ( Mannheimer Arbeiterzeitung ).

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Husemann became involved in the resistance against the regime. Husemann returned to Berlin, went into hiding and had many contacts with the Berlin resistance. In late November 1936 he was arrested along with his father and without trial in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the 1937 Buchenwald deported. After his release in September 1938, he worked again as a toolmaker and, through his wife Marta, found a connection to the resistance group around Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack and to the Rote Kapelle . Husemann worked under the code name Akim for the Soviet intelligence service NKGB . In June 1941 he instructed Hans Coppi in shortwave radio.

On September 19, 1942, Husemann was arrested at his workplace. On January 26, 1943, he was sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial for “preparing for high treason and aiding in espionage ” and executed in Plötzensee .

Honors

In the GDR many public facilities and streets were named after him, which has now largely been reversed. There are still streets named after him in Rostock and Unseburg . There is still a school in Goldberg (Mecklenburg) and a sports field in Pankow named after Husemann. The “Walter Husemann” youth club also existed in Pankow . The youth hostel in Plau am See bore his name. In the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg , the former Hochmeisterstraße was renamed after Husemann in 1948. It was restored for the 750th anniversary of the city in 1987 and, in addition to being used as a residential and commercial street, was intended to show life in the former working-class district at the turn of the century.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 1. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 438-443.
  • Heinz Höhne : Password Director. The story of the Red Chapel. Stuttgart / Hamburg 1970.
  • Wolf Gerhardt: party journalist and resistance fighter. Walter Husemann . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement , 27. Jg. (1985), No. 2, pp. 249-253.
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel . Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
  • Regina Griebel, Marlies Coburger, Heinrich Scheel: Recorded? The Gestapo album for the Red Orchestra . Audioscop, Halle / Saale 1992.
  • Marlies Coburger: Paths to Resistance. Marta and Walter Husemann . In: Hans Coppi, Jürgen Danyel, Johannes Tuchel (eds.): The Red Orchestra in the resistance against National Socialism . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, pp. 235–241.
  • Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (ed.): Lexicon of Resistance 1933–1945 . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1998, p. 97f.
  • Husemann, Walter . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Commons : Walter Husemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boris Chawkin , Hans Coppi, Juri Zorja: Russian sources on the Red Chapel , in: Hans Coppi, Jürgen Danyel, Johannes Tuchel: The Red Chapel in the Resistance against National Socialism , Berlin 1994, p. 134f. In connection with Heinz Höhne, Keyword Director, p. 178.
  2. ↑ Heinz Höhne, Keyword Director, p. 178 u. 180.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from July 12, 1982. Accessed October 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Husemann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellerbek near Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee