Willi Warncke
Willi Warncke (born May 22, 1902 , † October 1943 in the Mediterranean ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and a victim of the Nazi regime .
Life
Warncke earned his living as an employee after attending primary school . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emerging National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he continued his political resistance illegally . When the Gestapo became aware of this, he was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment by a court and then transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. At the end of the 1930s he was released from the concentration camp together with the Hamburg communists Bernhard Bästlein , Franz Jacob , Robert Abshagen , Gustav Bruhn , Camillo Friede , Rudolf Klug , Franz Reetz , Adolf Wendt , Hein Bretschneider and Hans Christoffers . He now worked as an employee in the warehouse department of a Hamburg company. After the beginning of the Second World War he found a connection to the resistance group “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ”, which helped the persecuted and supported foreign forced laborers . When a comrade had to hide from the Gestapo , Warncke granted him an overnight stay in one of his warehouses. Thanks to his help, Franz Jacob, who was on the run, was able to hide from the Gestapo for a month.
In the course of the war, Warncke, who had been declared “ unworthy of defense ”, was drafted into the penalty battalion 999 and was deployed in the Mediterranean area, where he died in October 1943.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kathleen Marowsky: The Bästlein-Jacobs-Abshagen Group. An example of communist resistance in Hamburg in the “Third Reich”. Accessed September 10, 2011
- ↑ Irene Hübner: Our Resistance: German women and men report on their fight against the Nazis . Röderberg-Verlag, 1982. Excerpt from Google Books. Accessed September 10, 2011
- ↑ a b Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance 1933-1945 . Röderberg-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 9783876820361 . Excerpt from Google Books. Retrieved September 10, 2011
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SURNAME | Warncke, Willi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | communist resistance fighter against National Socialism |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1902 |
DATE OF DEATH | October 1943 |
Place of death | Mediterranean Sea |