Martin Weise ( German Weise ; May 12, 1903 , Torgau , German Empire - November 15, 1943 , Brandenburg-on-Havel , Third Reich ) - German politician , anti-fascist , member of the Resistance movement during World War II, member of the organization " Red Chapel .
| Martin weise | |
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| him Martin weise | |
| Date of Birth | May 12, 1903 |
| Place of Birth | Torgau , German Empire |
| Date of death | November 15, 1943 (40 years) |
| Place of death | Brandenburg an der Hafele , Third Reich |
| Citizenship |  Germany |
| Occupation | member of the resistance movement during World War II |
| miscellanea | politician, anti-fascist, member of the "Red Chapel" |
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Biography
Martin Weise was born on May 12, 1903 in Torgau, Germany. He was the son of a teacher, grew up in Berlin, where in 1921 he joined the German Communist Youth League (KJVD). In 1927 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1922 he began to study history and philosophy, but in 1924, due to material difficulties, he was forced to interrupt his studies. In 1928 he became unemployed. Prior to that, for several years served as a clerk in an insurance company. From 1929 to 1933 he was a district councilor from the Communist Party in Berlin-Neukölln. From 1930 he wrote articles for the Red Banner, the main press organ of the Communist Party of Germany. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he became the editor of an illegal anti-fascist newspaper. In 1933–1934, the head of the Reich Comittee for the Unemployed in Berlin.
In 1934 he was arrested and spent 3 years in prison in the Brandenburg prison. Here he met the bride Frida Seidlitz , the liaison of the Communist Party of Germany, also arrested by the Gestapo. After being released from prison in 1937, he was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After being released from the concentration camp in April 1939, he contacted his comrades-in-arms, including Wilhelm Gooddorf . Together with him, he established contact with the anti-fascists Bernhard Beistline and Robert Abshagen . Together with John Sieg , Fritz Lang and Walter Huzeman, from the end of 1941 in Berlin regularly published the anti-fascist magazine "The Internal Front".
Arrest and Execution
Martin Weise was arrested by the Gestapo in December 1942. In October 1943, the People’s Court found him guilty of conspiracy to commit treason and sentenced him to death. The sentence was executed on November 15, 1943 .
Memory
In the GDR there was a Polytechnic School in Berlin named after Martin Weise.
In September 1998, a memorial plaque in memory of him was erected at house 42 on Jonasstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln. [one]
Literature
- Luise Kraushaar (Hrsg.): Deutsche Widerstandskämpfer 1933–1945. Biographien und Briefe . Band 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 412–415.
- Peter Steinbach, Johannes Tuchel (Hrsg.): Lexikon des Widerstandes 1933–1945 . CH Beck, Munich 1998, S. 215-216.
Links
- Die innere Front (Flugschrift Nr. 15 vom August 1942) (PDF-Datei; 2.17 MB)