Wolfgang Bonde

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Wolfgang Oskar Bonde (born December 15, 1902 in Altenburg ; † March 15, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Wolfgang Bonde was the son of the Altenburg publishing house book dealer Carl Bonde (1864–1936, Altenburger Zeitung , printer and publisher Oskar Bonde) and his wife Meta (* 1867), née. Kriewitz. The lawyer and publisher Karl Helmuth Bonde (1904–1942) was his younger brother. He fell in the German-Soviet War.

Wolfgang Bonde studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . On May 27, 1921 he became active in the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . He was reciprocated on January 28, 1922 and inactivated at the end of the 1922 summer semester . He passed his legal traineeship exam in Jena . In 1928 he was at the University of Jena to Dr. iur. PhD . From 1928 to 1932 he was a court assessor in Weimar and Greiz . He settled in Berlin as a lawyer in 1938 and later became a notary .

Called up to the Foreign Office in 1940 , he worked as an unskilled worker in the culture and information department of the German legation in Stockholm until 1944 . He was considered one of the key figures in the cultural department. There were oppositional currents within the embassy. Bonde himself voiced criticism of the Nazi regime in front of Swedish citizens and represented an open anti-Nazi stance. Since he felt safe in neutral Sweden, he did not mince words. His statements have been handed down that the law was abolished in Germany in 1933 and that Germany had a “gangster government”.

Franz Six , head of the cultural policy department at the Foreign Office, was responsible for his arrest. On October 24, 1944, when he was on a business trip to Berlin, he was arrested by the Secret State Police as a "resistance fighter and defeatist". Despite his chronic lung disease, he was taken from the Gestapo prison on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse to the Oranienburg concentration camp . In December 1944 he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and in February 1945 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He died there less than two months before the Wehrmacht surrendered .

He was married to Ingeborg born on February 5, 1940 . Hartmann . The marriage produced a son.

literature

  • Peter Grupp: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service, 1871–1945: AF , Foreign Office, Historical Service. Schoeningh, 2000, p. 220
  • Daniel B. Roth: Hitler's bridgehead in Sweden: the German legation in Stockholm 1933–1945 , LIT Verlag, Münster 2009 pp. 316-317, ISBN 978-3643103468
  • Ernst F. Jung: Wolfgang Bonde . In: Corps students in the resistance against Hitler edited by Sebastian Sigler . Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2014. pp. 488-489. ISBN 978-3-428-14319-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Day of the declaration of death according to the Biographical Manual of the German Foreign Service
  2. ↑ For the family background, see the Bonde Collection , Thuringian State Archive Altenburg
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/993 (member of the Corps Thuringia Jena since 1924)
  4. ↑ a b Bremensia's Green Paper
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39/1194.
  6. ↑ Dissertation: The Problem of Reparation .
  7. ^ Daniel B. Roth: Hitler's bridgehead in Sweden: the German embassy in Stockholm 1933-1945 , LIT Verlag, Münster 2009 pp. 316-317, ISBN 978-3643103468
personal data
SURNAME Bonde, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonde, Wolfgang Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen concentration camp