Willi Warncke

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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

  1. ↑ Kathleen Marowsky: The Bästlein-Jacobs-Abshagen Group. An example of communist resistance in Hamburg in the “Third Reich”. Accessed September 10, 2011
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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
personal data
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