Wilhelm Dieckmann (resistance fighter, 1902)

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Wilhelm Dieckmann (born February 2, 1902 ; † February 27/28, 1934 in Dresden ) was a German climber, mountaineer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Dieckmann came from a social democratic family. After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith. As a teenager he was already enthusiastic about sports and loved nature and mountains, so that he joined the " Tourist Association 'Die Naturfreunde " (TVDN) founded in 1895 and shortly afterwards the SPD . As a Saxon regional association and a subsidiary of the TVDN, the United Climbing Departments (VKA) emerged in the mid-1920s , also known under the name Rote Bergsteiger . Dieckmann joined them and switched to the KPD . In 1930 the Red Mountaineers were excluded from the tourist association. The KPD-affiliated athletes from then on formed the Naturefriends opposition. United Climbing Departments eV (NF-O VKA).

While distributing anti-fascist leaflets in front of the barracks on Königsbrücker Strasse in Dresden, he was arrested and remained in custody for eleven months before he was tried before the Reichsgericht in Leipzig , in which he was acquitted in 1932 for lack of evidence. On March 15, 1933, he was arrested again and imprisoned in the Hohnstein concentration camp . Due to abuse, he had to be treated in the Pirna hospital. In October 1933 he was released. He then worked illegally and organized two transports of brown books on the Reichstag fire and other educational pamphlets on the terror of National Socialism across the Czechoslovak-German border in the Eastern Ore Mountains in December 1933 and January 1934.

After the Gestapo had succeeded in penetrating the network of the Red Mountaineers, he was arrested for the third time on February 20, 1934. Attempts were made through him to take action against other mountaineers who offered illegal resistance. For this reason it was used on February 24, 1934 at Dresden Central Station as a decoy on the trains going into the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and used by many hikers and mountaineers. However, no one fell into the trap. Wilhelm Dieckmann was killed on the night of February 27-28, 1934. The version of suicide was officially circulated. For his friends, however, it was clear: Wilhelm Dieckmann is not the person who commits suicide!

His funeral took place on March 6, 1934, with lively public participation.

Honor

Since 1958, at the suggestion of Hans-Joachim Heusing , a memorial run and a hike have been organized in honor of Wilhelm Dieckmann for over 50 years.

literature

  • Fritz Leder: Traditions of our sport. Wilhelm Dieckmann (1902–1934). In: der tourist , 1984, no. 2, pp. 3–4.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Leder: Johannes Donath 80 years. In: der tourist , 1985, no. 11 and 12, p. 13.
  2. ^ Fritz Leder: Traditions of our sport. Wilhelm Dieckmann (1902–1934). In: the tourist. 1984, no. 2, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climber and mountaineer, opponent of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1902
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1934 or February 28, 1934
Place of death Dresden