Wilhelm Böse

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Friedrich Wilhelm Böse (born March 29, 1883 in Nieder Kränig , district of Königsberg Nm. , † August 14, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Wilhelm Böse grew up in tenements in the north of Berlin . His father died at a young age, so that as a ten-year-old he was forced to run errands to help keep the family going. After completing eight years of elementary school, he learned to be an electrician . From 1905 he was unionized and organized in workers' associations. Because he was committed to social improvements at the AEG , he was blacklisted by the employers' association and was no longer given any employment in the electrical and metal industries.

In August 1914 he was drafted into military service. During the First World War he was taken prisoner by Russia . After his return to Berlin, he became a member and functionary of the KPD in the Prenzlauer Berg district .

With the beginning of the fascist dictatorship in 1933, he took part in an attempt to reorganize the organizational structures of the KPD underground. Böse was also involved in the production and sale of the Rote Fahne and the Sturmfahne, and collected solidarity donations for detained anti-fascists and their relatives. He was arrested in June 1934 and held in a penitentiary for two years.

After his imprisonment he kept in contact with his comrades again and took part in building the resistance organization around Robert Uhrig and John Sieg . Wilhelm Böse was given the task as a courier to ensure their connection to the resistance groups at the German arms and ammunition factories and other operating groups of the KPD. In February 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in concentration camps for two years . He was then taken to the Potsdam court prison . On June 21, 1944, the People's Court sentenced him to death along with Arthur Sodtke , Johann Pierschke , Walter Strohmann and Hermann Töps . The sentence was carried out in the Brandenburg-Görden prison in August 1944.

Honors

The Bösebrücke between the Berlin districts Gesundbrunnen and Prenzlauer Berg was named after Wilhelm Böse . During the GDR times (since around 1978) the 15th secondary school was in Dimitroffstrasse. 58 (today Danziger Str.) Named after Wilhelm Böse.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933 - 1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 1, Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, page 154 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register StA Hohenkränig, No. 15/1883
personal data
SURNAME Bad, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böse, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieder Kränig , district of Königsberg Nm.
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel