Willi Derkow

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Willi Derkow (born November 17, 1906 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † after 1977) was a German social democrat , union official and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life and activity

During the Weimar Republic, Derkow worked as a bank clerk. Politically, he was active as a trade union secretary as well as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Central Association of Employees (ZdA), in which he had already been involved at the age of sixteen. He later became SAJ chairman of Berlin-Moabit and an employee of the SPD press.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, he worked temporarily in the political underground. In August 1939 he emigrated to Great Britain via the Netherlands, where he lived in London .

From August 1940 Derkow was editor of the IGB-Bulletin . In 1940 he became a member of the German advisory commission at the Interned Enemy Aliens Tribunal, which decided on the release of interned German emigrants in Great Britain.

From 1941 to 1945 Derkow was a member of the working committee of the regional group (LG) of German trade unionists under the leadership of Hans Gottfurcht . In 1943 he also worked for the Union's program advisory services in the field of social policy and a member of the Economic Working Group at the LG's program advisory service.

The National Socialist police officers classified Derkow as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, would be followed by the special commandos of the occupying forces SS should be located and arrested with special priority

In 1978 Derkow lived in Hindhead , Surrey .

Fonts

  • The Other Germany . Facts and Figures. A Collection of Facts with Comments Compiled by WilliD Erkow on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Trade Union Center for German Workers in Great Britain, London 1943.

literature

  • Werner Röder / Herbert A Strauss: Politics, Economy, Public Life , 1980, p. 125.
  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 385 (short biography).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry to Derkow on the special wanted list GB (play on the site of the Imperial War Museum in London).
personal data
SURNAME Derkow, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin -Charlottenburg:
DATE OF DEATH after 1977