Wilhelm Hollandmoritz

Wilhelm Hollandmoritz (born March 6, 1891 in Albrechts , † December 3, 1943 in Ichtershausen ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Born as the first of five children in the working class family of the locksmith August Hollandmoritz and his wife Anna. The family also worked a piece of land and kept animals for self-sufficiency. After attending elementary school, he learned to be a mechanic . In 1908 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV), to which 95 workers belonged in Albrechts. He also became a member of the SPD and took part in the workers 'gymnastics and a workers' choral society in his free time until they were dissolved in 1933. Between 1917 and 1918 he was a soldier in the imperial army and deployed on the fronts in East Prussia and the Mazury . In 1918 he joined the Spartakusbund , and then he became a member of the KPD . He recognized the emerging danger that threatened the young republic from the right at an early stage and worked together with the mayor of Albrechtser Hermann Jentsch, who had set up an arsenal of 60 infantry rifles in 1920 to arm workers in an emergency. After the failure of the Kapp Putsch , Wilhelm hid the weapons in an unused basement of a closed factory. In 1923 he commanded a workers' armed forces in order to be able to oppose the Hitler putsch during his planned march on Berlin. But the Reichswehr supported the putschists, so that Wilhelm had to go into hiding. Holland Moritz was a member of the Municipal Council and since 1927 also the county council of Schleusingen . From 1925 he worked as a machinist in the Simsonwerk von Heinrichs in the energy plant. He also represented the KPD in the parents' council . On so-called “Land Sundays” farmers were also informed about the fascist danger. In the restaurant "Linsenhof", in the "Regenberghütte" and in the "Nudelhütte" there were also meetings of anti-fascists who exchanged ideas . With Adolf Anschütz , Ernst and Fritz Albrecht and Fritz Köhler he designed leaflets that were distributed in armaments factories. In 1933 he was also involved in the preparation of a mass rally against the formation of the Hitler government in Suhl. From March to September 1934 he was taken into " protective custody " by the Gestapo and sent to Berlin- Plötzensee and the Sonnenburg concentration camp . After his release he found work in Sömmerda . From 1935 he was no longer allowed to work in a large company, but had to look for a smaller one. His new job was the Simson-Werk, where he again with leaflets and word of mouth urged his colleagues to refuse to prepare for war. By Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser he received instructions on how the resistance work could be made more effective. During the mass arrest of September 3, 1943, triggered by the traitor Fritz Klett , he was brought blindfolded and handcuffed to the garages of the Suhl police school and then to the Ichtershausen state prison . Here he was chained and interrogated several times a day and suffered severe abuse. On the death notice, prison officials said he was found in his cell with his throat cut on the morning of December 4th. The stated cause of death “ suicide ” must be questioned, because the coffin was not allowed to be opened before the cremation.

Hollandmoritz had been married to Fanny Endter since 1915 , with whom he had the son Alfred.

memory

A memorial stone commemorates him at the Albrechtser Friedhof Am Bock.

literature

• Gerd Kaiser (Ed.), Upright and strong , therein Dagmar Schmidt with a memory of Wilhelm Hollandmoritz, p. 68ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism II, p. 885