Werner Fischer (resistance fighter)

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Werner Fischer (born April 22, 1913 in Hellerau , † April 1945 near Leipzig ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Werner Fischer was a member of the KJVD and in 1933, after Hitler came to power, he became a member of the illegal leadership of this youth association in Dresden . He was arrested for the first time in April 1933, but released shortly afterwards for lack of evidence. From 1934 to 1935 he was delegated to the Lenin School in Moscow . He then received the assignment to work as an illegal instructor in the section leadership of the Central Committee of the KPD in Prague . From 1936 to 1938 he drove from Prague to Berlin and back several times.

After German troops marched into Czechoslovakia, he had to leave Prague in a rush. First he fled to Paris and was arrested there when the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop announced his visit. An expulsion to Nazi Germany could be prevented with the help of comrades of the Communist Party of France . In March 1939 he received an entry permit to Great Britain . In Great Britain he had to face a tribunal which determined the “degree of loyalty” and was then deported to Canada as an “ enemy alien ” and interned there . He was not released until 1941 and was allowed to return to Great Britain. There he worked actively in the FDJ , of which he was chairman alongside Horst Brasch , and became a member of the KPD. In 1942 a young communist group was founded under his leadership in London.

In November 1942, the International Youth Council in Great Britain took place in London , at which Fischer led the five-member delegation of German emigrants and also spoke to the delegates. The conference ended with the decision to form a World Youth Council , of which Fischer became a member. In addition, until August 1943, Fischer was editor-in-chief of the Free Tribune .

In autumn 1944 he was recruited by the US secret service OSS and trained for a deployment in Germany. The operation was coordinated with the Moscow GRU headquarters via the Soviet agent Ruth Werner . He parachuted off on April 7, 1945. As it became known only decades later, he did not end up behind the German lines as planned, but ran into a Soviet patrol in US uniform and with a forged Gestapo ID card. Fischer greeted them enthusiastically. The soldiers of the Soviet unit, who had been lured into a fatal ambush a few days earlier by German soldiers disguised as anti-fascists, suspected another ambush and shot him.

literature

  • Herbert Hilse: The communist Werner Fischer in Sächsische Zeitung from June 2, 1978
  • Hans Jacobus : Werner Fischer - The tragedy of a liberator of our country in New Germany from November 21, 1995
  • Peter Rau: The Legacy of US Captain Joseph Gould in Junge Welt, March 29, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Fleischhacker (ed.): That was our life, memories and documents on the history of the FDJ in Great Britain 1939-1946, page 243, Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 1996. ISBN 3355014753
  2. ↑ Ruth Werner: Sonjas Report, page 306. Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-355-01721-3
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hellerau
DATE OF DEATH April 1945
Place of death near Leipzig