Wilhelm Stein (resistance fighter)

Wilhelm Stein (born May 15, 1895 in Biebernheim , † June 26, 1944 in Hamburg ) was a German engineer , Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Stein came from a Hamburg Jewish family. After elementary school he attended an engineering college, where he obtained his engineering license. He was employed in the company Krupp von Hamburg-Harburg . Here he came into contact with the resistance group “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ” and acted illegally against the Nazi regime. When the Gestapo became aware of this, he was arrested and taken to the Hamburg pre- trial detention center. The Hamburg People's Court pronounced the death sentence against him , which was carried out on June 26, 1944.

Honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters

Honors

• In the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf there is a pillow stone for Wilhelm Stein (third row from the left, fifth stone).
• The city of Hamburg honored the murdered man by naming a street in Hummelsbüttel “ Wilhelm-Stein-Weg ”.
• The action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in memory of his memory on June 30, 2003 in Harburg on Seevestrasse, Gate 2 and on October 26, 2010 in Heimfeld on Eißendorfer Pferdeweg 65 .

literature

• Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Education and Sport, Office for Education, State Center for Political Education, Beate Meyer (Ed.): The persecution and murder of Hamburg's Jews 1933 - 1945: history, testimony, memory / Institute for the history of the Germans Jews , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-929728-85-0
• Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group. Report on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the water's edge during the Second World War . Dietz, Berlin, capital of the GDR 1959, p. 216f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg
2. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg