Walter Möller (anti-fascist)

Walter Möller (born January 28, 1905 , † August 1, 1933 in Altona ) was a Hamburg antifascist . He was found guilty of murder and executed in 1933 in a trial staged by the Nazi judiciary on Blood Sunday in Altona . On November 13, 1992, the judgment of the Hamburg Regional Court was overturned as an unjust Nazi judgment .

Life

Walter Möller, Ehrenhain Ohlsdorf

Stumbling Stone Kegelhofstrasse 13

Memorial plaque behind Altona District Court

Walter Möller grew up in a north German working class family. He was a "casual worker", sometimes working as a packer, sometimes as a passenger or whatever else the Hamburg job market offered. From 1931 he was unemployed.

Möller was a member of the KJVD and the anti-fascist campaign in Eppendorf , which emerged from the Kampfbund against fascism , where he lived at Kegelhoffstrasse 13 . On July 17, 1932, he supported the Altona workers in their attempt to prevent a deployment of SA men. When there was a riot between the police and the anti-fascist demonstrators, which was accompanied by a wild shootout, Möller fled to a backyard, where he was arrested a short time later together with Karl Wolff by a task force of the security police.

After a brief pre- trial detention with the final suspension of the criminal proceedings in autumn 1932 , he was indicted in a staged trial by a special court at the Altona district court on May 8, 1933, along with 14 other accused, of the deaths of SA men Heinrich Koch and Peter Büddig to have been involved.

Part of the tragedy of the “Altona Blood Sunday” was that the police troops were commanded by the Social Democratic Interior Minister of Prussia, Carl Severing . Three days later this event not only indirectly led to Severing's dismissal, but also served as a pretext for the illegitimate coup dismissal of the SPD government .

Commemoration

• In the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf there is a pillow stone for Walter Möller (fourth row from the left, twelfth stone).
• In Eppendorf there is a stumbling block for Walter Möller in front of his last residential address, Kegelhofstrasse 13, and four stumbling blocks arranged in a square were laid in front of the entrance to the district court at Max-Brauer-Allee 89: for August Lütgens , Karl Wolff , Walter Möller and Bruno Tesch .
• Walter Möller Park in Altona is named after him.
• At the place of execution , the site of the former prison yard on the edge of a playground in the residential area behind the courthouse of today's Hamburg-Altona District Court , there is now a memorial.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, and 1, p. 609 - Volume 2, p. 330

Web links

• Biography and portrait of Walter Möller at stolpersteine-hamburg.de