Robert Abshagen ( German: Robert Abshagen ; January 12, 1911 , Hamburg , Germany - July 10, 1944 , Hamburg, Germany ) - Communist , anti-fascist , member of the Resistance movement during World War II, member of the Red Chapel organization.
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| Date of Birth | January 12, 1911 |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg , Germany |
| Date of death | July 10, 1944 (33 years old) |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Germany |
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| Occupation | insurance agent , sailor , builder , member of the Resistance movement during World War II |
| miscellanea | Communist, anti-fascist, member of the Red Chapel |
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Biography
Robert Abschagen was born on January 12, 1911 in Hamburg, in the German Empire. Having received a certificate of maturity, he worked as an insurance agent, then was a sailor in the navy, worked as a builder. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ).
Since 1933, participated in the resistance movement to the Nazi regime in Hamburg. In 1934, he was convicted by the Supreme Land Court of Hamburg for "conspiracy to commit a coup d'etat" and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He served his sentence in Bremen-Ozlebshausen, then he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he worked in a hospital.
After his release in April 1939, he again became a member of the resistance movement organized by the Communist Party in Hamburg. [1] In 1940, he made contact with Bernhard Bestline and Franz Jacob . Together they created an organization called the Bestline-Jacob-Abshagen group. He took charge of various cells and liaising with resistance fighters in other parts of Germany. In order to establish contacts with anti-fascists, he traveled to Berlin, Saxony , Thuringia and the Ruhr area .
The wave of Gestapo arrests related to the investigation by the special commission of the Red Chapel case and caused by the arrest of Erna Eifler and Wilhelm Felllendorf . October 19, 1942 Robert Abshagen was arrested. On May 2, 1944, a people's court sentenced him to capital punishment. On July 10, 1944, the sentence was carried out in Hamburg. [2]
The urn with its ashes in 1946 was buried in a memorial grove at the Olsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. [3] A memorial plate was erected to him in Wachelstrasse 4 in Barmbek, in a suburb in the north of Hamburg.
Literature
- Ursula Puls: Die Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen-Gruppe. Bericht über die antifaschistischen Widerstandskampf in Hamburg und an der Wasserkante während des 2. Weltkrieges . Dietz, Berlin 1959.
- Luise Kraushaar (Hg.): Deutsche Widerstandskämpfer 1933-1945. Biographien und Briefe . Band 1. Dietz, Berlin 1970, S. 35-39.
- Erkämpft das Menschenrecht. Lebensbilder und letzte Briefe antifaschistischer Widerstandskämpfer . Neuer-Weg-Verlag, Essen 1992, S. 16-19.
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Notes
- ↑ Shareen Blair Brysac. Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra Oxford University Press (2000) p. 297
- ↑ Hamburger Stolpersteine Hamburg artist creates small memorials for Nazi victims that are the size and shape of cobblestones and are set in the street, in the place of one. Retrieved March 24, 2010
- ↑ Kathleen Marowsky. “Die Bästlein-Jacobs-Absagen Gruppe - Ein Beispiel des kommunistischen Widerstands in Hamburg im 'Dritten Reich'” Article by a Hamburg historian. Unter Hamburg, official website (about the history of Hamburg). Retrieved March 24, 2010