Wilhelm Boller (resistance fighter)
Wilhelm Boller (born October 22, 1904 in Hamburg , † October 19, 1943 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a German resistance fighter and member of the Danish underground movement against the Wehrmacht .
Life
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Wilhelm Boller came from a socialist working class family. He completed a commercial apprenticeship. The Hamburg uprising of 1923 motivated him to become a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Red Front Fighter League (RFB). Boller became a functionary of the Red Young Front (RJ).
In the early 1930s, the communist organizations saw in the presidential cabinets a tendency towards fascization in Germany. The ban on the organizations RFB and RJ made it necessary for the “proletarian protection organizations” to organize themselves illegally from 1929 onwards. Wilhelm Boller took over the management of the RJ district in the Hamburg districts of Hamm and Borgfelde . Before the National Socialists came to power on January 30, 1933, he was persecuted by the SA for several weeks and finally imprisoned until autumn 1934. Boller managed to escape from a concentration camp and emigrated to Denmark. There he organized, together with Danish communists, the solidarity campaigns of the International Red Aid for German emigrants and supported the resistance against National Socialism in Germany as a member of the KPD's North Branch . After the coup of Falangist troops in Spain, he supported the republican defenders in the ranks of the International Brigades .
After the occupation of Denmark by German troops , Boller joined the Danish underground movement. He distributed illegal soldiers' newspapers among selected members of the occupation forces.
In October 1942 the Danish police arrested him and handed him over to the German authorities. Boller was sentenced to death and executed in Brandenburg prison.
Honors
In the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf there is a pillow stone in honor of Wilhelm Boller (fourth row from the left, first stone).
Before Boller's last home address, Ausschläger Billdeich 51, on the corner of Großmannstrasse in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort , a stumbling block reminds of him.
literature
- Luise Kraushaar u. a .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 1. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 145ff.
- Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945. A grove of honor documentation in text and images . Published by the VVN - Bund der Antifaschisten eV Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9 .
- Boller, Wilhelm . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Biography of Wilhelm Boller at stolpersteine-hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boller, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boller, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1943 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel |