Willi Seng

Willi Seng (born February 11, 1909 in Berlin , † July 27, 1944 in Cologne ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Seng grew up in Berlin and learned the trade of a tailor . Since 1920 he was a member of the workers' sports club "Fichte" and in 1929 took part in the Spartakiad in Moscow . In 1930 he joined the Red Aid and in 1932 the KPD . In the spring of 1933 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Oranienburg concentration camp . After his release from “ protective custody ” he was employed as a liaison for the Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit (KG) for the Berlin district management. From 1934 he headed the KG Niederrhein in Düsseldorf , where he published the newspapers Westdeutscher Arbeiterport and Sportfreund . In May 1935 he first fled to Amsterdam and in the same year traveled on to Moscow, where he attended the International Lenin School until 1937 .

Seng then traveled to the Ruhr area , Dortmund , Essen and Oberhausen as an instructor for the KPD foreign leadership . In January 1939, Seng took part in the KPD's Bern conference in Draveil near Paris . After the invasion of German troops, he lived under a false name in the Netherlands . At the end of 1940, Wilhelm Knöchel Seng chose to return to the Ruhr area and set up an illegal organization. Thanks to his good connections to companies in Essen, Duisburg , Bottrop , Wuppertal and in the Bergisches Land , Seng was able to incorporate a great deal of knowledge into his illegally published publications Ruhrecho and Illegaler SA-Mann . On January 20, 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo , sentenced to death by the People's Court on May 24, 1944 , and executed in Cologne .

Honor

Memorial stone for murdered opponents of the Nazi regime in Schönow

In Schönow near Bernau , Willi Seng is named on a memorial stone for murdered opponents of the Nazi regime. A day care center in Schönow bears his name.

literature

• Wolfgang Benz , Walter H. Pehle : Lexicon of the German resistance . 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-10-005702-3 , p. 395.
• Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (ed.): Lexicon of Resistance 1933–1945 . CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43861-X , p. 185.
• Seng, Willi . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• The circle around Willi Seng (on the side of the Wuppertal trade union processes)

Individual evidence

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