| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Ellie Bänsch | (1909–1974) | Seamstress | | | 4 December 1944, sentenced to five years in prison for "aid to preparation for high treason". Survived the war | Wife of Willhelm Bänsch. |
| Marth Bänsch | (1912-?) | Housewife, KVJD member | | | 4 December 1944, sentenced to five years in prison for "aid to preparation for high treason" | Sister of Willi Bänsch.[6] |
| (1908–1944) | Locksmith, KJVD member | | Arrested 12 November 1944, sentenced to death in December 1944 | Executed in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 11 December 1944 | Worked with the KPD to distribute illegal leaflets.[7] [8] |
| Bernhard Bästlein | (1894–1944) | Precision mechanic, KPD member | | Arrested 30 May 1944 and sentenced to death on 5 September 1944 for "preparation for high treason, enemy favour and defence decomposition" | Executed on 18 September 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. | Organiser of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group.[9] |
| Karl Baier | (1887–1973) | Carpenter, later politician. SAPD member | | Arrested on 22 August 1933 | Sentenced on 5 December 1934 to years in prison by the 2nd senate of the Volksgerichtshof. | Organised the exchange of information, the collection of money and food stamps for Nazi opponents and Jewish families.[10] |
| Julius Balkow | (1909–1973) | Mechanical engineer | Siemens | Arrested on 20 In July 1944 by the Gestapo | Sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Volksgerichtshof "for the reason of favour and preparation for high treason". Liberated by the Red Army in April 1945. | He was active there in the group leadership and passed on money and food stamps to Saefkow.[11] |
| Paul Bartsch | (1885-?) | Lathe operator, KPD member | | Arrested 9 August 1944 | Sentenced to three years in prison for paying Red Aid contributions. | Carried out courier services to procure money and food stamps.[12] |
| Walter Basalay | | Gardener | | | Sentenced to two years in prison | [13] |
| (1894–1944) | Fitter, engineer. KPD member | Nicolaus & Co | Arrested 16 July 1944 | In September 1944 sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof. Executed in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 6 November 1944. | Supplied underground communist newspapers and other publications to resistance members.[14] |
| Reinhard Baum | (1902-?) | Mechanic and technician | FA. Bosse | | Sentenced to five years in prison. | [15] [16] |
| Richard Bergow | | Plasterer and manager | Askania | Arrested on 12 July 1944 and sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof | Survived pre-trial detention by being liberated on 14 April 1945 | One of the three-man leadership team in Askania along with Paul Junius and Paul Hirsch. Ran the 60 member resistance group in the factory.[17] |
| (1903–1943) | Warehouse man, KPD member, Soviet parachutist. | Siemens | Arrested with his wife after returning from the USSR and exposing himself in the Little Moscow garden colony. | Shot without trial in Sachsenhausen concentration camp | Killed by what the Nazis called Sippenhaft, whereby they were inclined to kill the whole family in revenge whenever a Red Orchestra member was discovered. Shot without trial.[18] |
| Charlotte Bischoff | (1901–1944) | Stenographer, KPD member | | | Survived the war | Participated in the dissemination of the illegal paper, Die Innere Front. SED functionary.[19] |
| Margarete Blank | (1901–1945) | Leipzig, doctor | | Arrested 14 July 1944 as a "Bolshevik spy and agent" | 6th Senate of the Volksgerichtshof sentenced Blank to death on 15 December 1944. Executed in the courtyard of the court. | Looked after the children of arrested anti-fascists. Linked to the resistance group of Alfred Frank in 1935, but not active as a resistance fighter. Enunciated doubts about the final victory and a colleague informed on her, leading to her arrest.[20] |
| Willi Bolien | (1907–1944) | Plumber, KPD member | Hans Windhoff Apparate- und Maschinenfabrik AG | Arrested on 13 October 1944 | Died on 14 October 1944 by jumping out a window of Gestapo headquarters | Established a resistance group at the factory and supplied underground publications and pamphlets to the factory.[21] |
| (1901–1945) | Commercial representative for wine company. SPD member | | Arrested in April 1944. Sentenced to death for "preparation for high treason in difficult form" | On the 19 February 1945, he was executed in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Belonged to group around Paul Hinze.[22] |
| Marta Borrack | | | | | Sentenced to two years in prison for not reporting whereabouts of Paul Hinze. | Wife of Max Borrack |
| Wilhelm Bösch | (1897–1945) | Machine fitter | AEG Turbine in Moabit | Arrested April 1945 | Sentenced to death for "decomposition of military strength" and "preparation for high treason". Executed in Plötzensee Prison on 6 April 1945 | Member of resistance group in the AEG factory. Worked with Richard Klotzbücher to undermine factory production.[23] |
| Bruno Braun | (1901–1990) | | Daimler-Benz AG | Arrested in September 1944 | Remained in custody until the end of the war | In a resistance cell with Paul Klimmek and Robert Uhrig. Worked to undermine the factory.[24] [25] |
| (1904–1953) | Painter and graphic artist. KPD member | | First arrested 1934, released 1937. Arrested again in 1944 | Survived the war due to the advancing Allied army. | Member of the Rote Hilfe group, later the . Created illustrations and drawings for the underground communist KPD newspaper .[26] |
| Richard Budach | (1901-?) | Lathe operator, KPD member | AEG Wildau | | Sentenced to 4 years in prison | [27] |
| Gustav Boguslawski | (1895–1971) | Locksmith. KPD member | FA. Ludwig Loewe | | Survived the war | Distributed leaflets and underground KPD publications to factory workers.[28] | |
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| (1906–1945) | Blacksmith, KPD member, Comintern agent | | Arrested on 9 July 1944. | Sentenced to death in November 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof. Executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison on 5 February 1944 | KPD organiser in Magdeburg.[31] |
| (1909-1945) | Metal worker | Siemens Dynamo plant, later Argus engine company | Arrested in 1938 and sentenced three and half years prison due to "mass propaganda". | In 1943, drafted into 999th Light Afrika Division (Wehrmacht) penal battalion. In 1945 was captured and died in Veles under unclear circumstances | Worked with an illegal group in the Siemens plant. He collected money and food for the resistance. One of the most active organisers in the group.[32] |
| Werner Deckers | (1913–1993) | Sales representative and later soldier | | Arrested on 17 July 1944. Sentenced to 7 years in prison due to his association with the Saefkow group | Survived the war when on 27 April 27, 1945 was liberated by the Red Army in the prison in Potsdam. | Working-class professional athlete who turned to resistance. Collected money and food for illegal immigrants and distributed leaflets with his sister Helene.[33] |
| Walter Demant | (1900–?) | KPD member. Instructor at Red Aid before 1933 | Argus Motoren where he led interventions to sabotage products | | | Red Aid Communist instructor in agitprop. At Argus worked along with his fellow collaborators to paralyse war production.[34] |
| (1895–1971) | Editor, KPD member and secretary | Hamburger Volkszeitung, later | | March to April 1933 in Sonnenburg concentration camp. Survived the war | Communist activist who resisted with Georg Dünninghaus, Jakob Schlör, Willi Schönbeck, Albert Almstedt, Otto Marquardt and Karl Baier.[35] |
| Arthur Deutschmann | | NKFD member | Daimler-Benz AG | | | Ran a propaganda campaign along with Bruno Braun.[36] |
| (1897-1945) | Fine artist and commercial artist | Bruns & Stauff GmbH, United Graphische Kunstanstalten. | Arrested on 17 August 1944. As he was Jewish, he was sent straight to a concentration camp | 6 January 1945 shot dead in Sachsenhausen concentration camp | Worked with the engineer Hugo Kapteina and Hans Lippmann, Arthur Grimmer, Reinhold Hermann.[37] |
| August Ditzell | | Toolmaker | Kärger AG, KPD member | | | [38] |
| Heinz Dohrenberg | (1910-?) | Appointment clerk | | | Sentenced to 10 years in prison | [39] |
| Rudolf Drabinski | (1919-?) | Industrial clerk, later drafted | Müller Gummiwaren AG | | | Helped to improve the lives of Soviet and French forced labourers at Müller Gummiwaren AG. Later drafted into the Wehrmacht, but was then able to provide security to his former resistance cell, as he was in uniform.[40] |
| Arthur Drelse | (1896–?) | Lathe operator | | | | |
| Alfred Drüsener | (?–1943) | Part of a group of thirty people who resisted | Siemens Plania. | | | Part of a group led by Fritz Goll, who collected money, food and food stamps for forced labourers who worked in Siemens.[41] |
| (1918–1944) | Toolmaker, KPD Member | Alfred Teves | Arrested on 10 August 1944 | Sentenced to death on 10 October 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof. Executed on 27. November 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden prison | He distributed leaflets and collected money and food for those living illegally. Established a cell in the Alfred Teves factory. Worked as the liaison to the organisation. However, when a list of donations he kept in small book was discovered by the Gestapo, he was arrested.[42] | |
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Max Eckert | | | Knorr-Bremse | | | Worked with Ernst Klein, Jahn Masek, Gustav Schlaupitz, Richard Weißensteiner as well as Fritz Giersch but could do little in the large factory.[43] |
| (1890–1962) | Commercial artist and political cartoonist, KPD member | Deutsche Volkszeitung, Berliner Zeitung, Neues Deutschland newspapers | Arrested multiple times | Survived the war | Co-publisher of the semi-legal newspaper "Welt und Leben" (World and Life) and the illegal newspaper "Der Maulwurf" (The mole). After the war Eickmeier had a successful career in a number of East German newspapers as a press draughtsmen.[44] |
| (1894–1947) | Bricklayer, Politician, KPD member | Schneider | | Survived the war | KPD functionary. Originally the Reichsleiter of the Revolutionären Gewerkschafts-Opposition in 1930, later KPD politician. Arrested in 1933 as a communist until 1936. Worked with the KPD during the interwar period and when the war started, became a resistance fighter when he joined forces with the group associated with Anton Saefkow.[45] [46] |
| Hertha Engel | | | | | | |
| (1895–1945) | Carpenter, Politician, KPD member | | Arrested July 1944 | Sentenced to death and executed on 11 January 1945 in the courtyard in | In the early-to-mid 1930s worked with Georg Schumann and Kurt Kresse. During the war worked with Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser. Later during the war wrote leaflets calling for the end of the Nazi regime.[47] |
| Helene Ettig | | Housewife | | | Survived the war | Made her apartment available for illegal meetings and fugtives.[48] |
|
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| (1899–1981) | Printer, SAP member, instructor | Bertinetti | Went into hiding when the arrests of the group started | Survived the war | Worked as a Socialist Workers' Party of Germany functionary.[49] |
| Theodor Feuerherdt | (1893–1970) | Fitter, KPD member | Askania | Arrested in 1944 | Sentenced to three years for paying contributions to International Red Aid. Survived the war | Contacted the SPD while working in the Askania factories but no resistance formed so contacted KPD. Worked to carry out acts of sabotage in every form,distributing illegal leaflets, establishing contacts with like-minded people and to organise collections for the surviving dependents of political prisoners.[50] |
| Margarethe Fischer | (1910–1999) | KPD member | | Arrested on 15 November 1934 | Sent to Moringen concentration camp Survived the war | Margarete Fischer was the organiser of the residential party cell "Ebert-Siedlung" in the western part of the district. She worked illegally with August Creutzburg, a former Reichstag deputy, and was imprisoned in March 1934 along with her family due to the Schwalbach group's activities. She was released at the end of the year due to the Hindenburg amnesty.[51] |
| Hans Fischer | | | Askania | | | In a resistance cell at Askania with Paul Hirsch, Giemens Seifert, Karl Lade, Kurt Rühlmann and Walter Zimmermann.[52] |
| Margarete Fischer | (1906-1983) | KPD member | | Arrested by the Gestapo on 15 November 1944 and charged with high treason | Imprisoned in Bayreuth prison. Survived the war | Wrote a number of underground pamphlets and newspapers that she distributed to soldiers. Worked in an KPD cell through Richard Wenzel and Fritz Emrich. [53] |
| Herbert Förster | | | | | | |
| (1914–1944) | Turner | Zahnradfabrik Friedrich Stolzenberg & Co. | Arrested in July 1944 | On 30 October 1944, Forstreuter was executed in Brandenburg penitentiary | Supplied into the Heereszeugamt. Part of a resistance cell with Karl Lüdtke, Harry Harder and Waldemar Hentze and Max Sauer who was the main contact with Saefkow.[54] |
| (1884–1945) | Artist and graphic artist. KPD member | | Arrested on 19 July 1944 | Executed in the courtyard of Dresden regional court on 12 January 1945. | In 1935/36, together with other intellectuals such as Margarete Blank, Wolfgang Heinze and Georg Sacke, he founded a resistance group that joined the Schumann-Engert-Kresse group around Georg Schumann, Georg Schumann, Otto Engert and Kurt Kresse at the beginning of World War II. Created and produced linocuts, pamphlets, leaflets and posters for the KPD [55] |
| (1914–1992) | Engineer, Major-General of the NPA | Henschel | Arrested 15 July 1944 along with Hedwig Hartung | Sentenced to death in September 1944 for "aiding the enemy". Escaped execution due to his expertise in remote-controlled bombs. Released in April 1945. | Held meetings with Erwin Freyer and the "National Committee for a Free Germany" movement.[56] |
| (1900–1945) | Mechanical engineer | The Teves machinery and valves factory | Arrested on 17 August 1942 | Sentenced to death on 14 December 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof Executed in Brandenburg-Görden Prison. | Established a resistance group at the factory where he arranged six cells with about forty member. They made contact in Saefkow in 1941.[57] |
|
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| (1915–1981) | Locksmith, KPD member | Knorr-Bremse | | Sent to a penal battalion. Survived the war. Later worked for the German Economic Commission and in a government ministry of the GDR | Worked with Max Eckert, Ernst Klein, Jahn Masek, Gustav Schlaupitz, Richard Weißensteiner. Resistance efforts had little real effect.[58] |
| Werner Goethert | | KPD member | Hasse & Wrede | | | Established 10 resistance cells of three people each by 1944.[59] |
| Otto Gohlke | (1886–1945) | Bricklayer, KPD member | Allemeine Werkzeugmaschinen AG | | | Part of a group along with Bernhard Jeschkeit and Erdmann Meyer.[60] [61] |
| Fritz Goll | (1897–1985) | Tailor, KPD member | Siemens-Plania | | Survived the war | Group leader of resistance network in the factory. Main liaison to the Saefkow organization. Distributed underground pamphlets among trusted colleagues.[62] |
| Fritz Goltz | (1914–1984) | | Schneider, Argus (Reinickendorf). | | Survived the war | Worked as the leader in the operational area of the north and east of the Berlin. Group organiser.[63] [64] |
| Max Grabowski | (1897–1981) | Painter and graphic designer, KPD member | | | Survived the war | Printed the Die Innere Front leaflet in his paint store.[65] |
| Otto Grabowski | (1892–1961) | Locksmith and later sculptor. KPD member, Red Aid member | | | Survived the war | Worked with the Red Aid until 1934. Linked to John Sieg and helped to produce the Die Innere Front magazine. Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944.[66] |
| (1901–1944) | Turner, KPD member | Berliner Maschinenbau AG, before. L. Schwartzkopff (BMAG) in Wildau | Arrested on 21 May 1943 and sentenced to death on 30 March 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof | Executed on 10 July 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Worked with Werner Gusche, Wilhelm Jakobs, Otto Lemm, Karl Scherer, Paul Schulze (1898–1944) and Paul Schütze (1891- 1944) in a resistance cell in the factories at Niederlehmer.[67] |
| Otto Gresch | | Model carpenter | | Arrested in July 1944 | Sentenced to 12 years in prison. Liberated in April 1945 and survived the war | Worked as a courier distributing underground leaflets and posters. Worked with Herbert Fölster and Helmut Wagner.[68] |
| (1906-1982) | Painter, graphic artist | Alkett. | | Survived the war | Collaborated with Georg Dimentstein, Reinhold Hermann, Hugo Kapteina, Willi Heinze to establish a resistance cell in Alkett.[69] |
| (1909–1980) | Textile worker, KVJD member, KPD member, later politician | | Arrested on 10 August 1944 in connection with the 20 July plot | Charged with "preparation for high treason". Was to stand trial but liberated on 27 April 1945 by the Red Army. | Through Kurt Sindermann, made contact with the organisation around Anton Saefkow.[70] |
| Richard Grubitz | (1914–2005) | Bookbinder, resistance fighter | | | Survived the war | Contacted the organisation through Hans Paucka. Worked with Saefkow on several operations and hid several resistance fighters at his home.[71] [72] |
| Melchior Gruda | (1886–1945) | Baker later pipe-layer | | Arrested in August 1944. Sentenced in the SS Court Main Office in Munich. | | Sergeant of the air protection police in the Prenzlauer Berg section command. Started to resist in autumn 1944. Worked closely with Helmut Wagner from the military-political branch of the Saefkow organization[73] |
|
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| (1899–1945) | Domestic worker | Bergmann. | Arrested 3 August 1944 by the Gestapo. | Sentenced to death. Executed at Barnimstraße Women's Prison in December 1944 | Head of the companies forced labour camp. Supported Soviet and French forced labourers in the camp.[74] |
| Bruno Hämmerling | (1896–1944) | Plumber, KPD functionary | | Arrested on 6 July 1944 and | Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof on 31 August 1944. Executed on executed 30 October 1944. | Sentenced on the same day as Judith Auer and Franz Schmidt.[75] |
| Harry Harder | (1904–1944) | | Stolzenberg factory in Berlin | | Executed 4 November 1944 | Worked with Karl Lüdtke and Waldemar Hentze and Max Sauer.[76] |
| Otto Hartmann | | | Siemens Plania | | | Part of a group of resistance fighters at Siemens, led by Fritz Goll.[77] |
| (1914–1945) | Nursery teacher, resistance fighter | | Arrested 15 July 1944 | Acquitted on 18 September 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof. Sent to a concentration camp but released in December 1944 due to life-threatening illness. Succumbed to heart failure in February 1945 due to her imprisonment. | SPD and SAP member. Part of a resistance group associated with Elisabeth Schumacher. Later formed a resistance cell while working in the propaganda department of the OKW along with Heinrich Werner.[78] |
| Auguste Hegenbarth | | | | | | Wife of Paul Hegenbarth. Worked with her husband to glue anti-fascist slogans on the Jannowitz Bridge |
| (1884–1945) | Upholsterer and saddler, KPD member | | Arrested on 17 August 1944 | Sentenced to death on 18 January 1945 and executed on 26 February 1946 | KPD instructor in Agitprop in the district of Berlin. Worked with Wilhelm Heinze and Julius Wordelmann. Donated money and food to resistance fighter in hiding. Distributed leaflets.[79] |
| (1910–1945) | Tailor, KPD functionary | | Arrested in August 1944 | On 18 January 194 sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof. | Distributed pamphlets. Worked with Robert Uhrig and Wilhelm Selke. Liaised with the Saefkow organisation.[80] |
| (1911–1945) | Lawyer | Köllmann Werkzeugfabrik GmbH | Arrested in August 1944. Sentenced to death on 12 August 1944 | Executed in January 1945 in the courtyard of Dresden Regional Court. | Worked with Alfred Frank to resist the Nazis. In Leipzig, he was involved in the publication of an illegal newspaper. For the forced labourers employed in the company of the Köllmann-Werke, he organised food, clothing and medicines and tried to disrupt the production of parts of the armour there.[81] |
| (1902–1945) | KPD member | Friedrich Stolzenberg & Co | Arrested on 11 July 1944 | On 14 December 1944 the 1st senate of the Volksgerichtshof to three years in prison. | Worked in a resistance cell at the factory along with Max Sauer and Siegfried Forstreuter.[82] |
| (1885–1945) | Printer and trade unionist, SPD member. | | Arrested 24 July 1944. | He was charged with "preparation for high treason". Died in Creussen prison subcamp due to injuries caused while travelling | Held illegal meetings in his apartment and made pamphlets with other members of the resistance group who lived in the same area.[83] |
| (1904–1945) | Saddler and tailor | Bergmann-Werke | In September 1944 he was arrested | Sentence to death in November 1944 | With his wife Helene, he belonged to a political circle of former Fichte athletes in the north of Berlin. Among the group were Caesar Horn, Erwin Reisler, Werner Deckers, Erich Dawideit and Fritz Goltz.[84] Supplied labourers in the Bergmann-Werke with extra food rations. Worked with Arthur Magnor to organise the escape of Georgi Vasilyev. |
| Gerhard Hildebrandt | | | | | | |
| (1906–1945) | Butcher, KPD member | | Arrested 14 April 1944 | Sentenced to death on 15 February 1945 by the Volksgerichtshof. On 20 April 1945 he was executed in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Was in contact with Werner Seelenbinder and through him Robert Uhrig. Provided food for illegal immigrants, especially Alfred Kowalke. He also procured hiding places for printing and stripping apparatus.[85] [86] |
| Herbert Hirl | | Labourer | Kärger AG | | | Was part of a resistance cell at Kärger that included toolmakers Paul Albrecht and August Ditzell as well as locksmiths Bruno Lauermann and Otto Rosentreter.[87] |
| Paul Hirsch | (1907–1945) | Toolmaker, KPD member | Askania AG | Arrested in July 1944. Subject to enhanced interrohation. | Escape on a transport in Potsdam | Organiser of the KPD in Askiana factory.[88] [89] Worked with Karl Lade, Kurt Rühlmann, Stanislaus Szczygielski, Walter Zimmermann and Paul Junius.[90] |
| Georg Hirschberg | | Doctor | | | | Hirschberg lost his stepfather through Nazi perscution. Worked with Richard Grubitz to obtain weapons but the mission failed.[91] |
| Martin Hirschberg | | | Siemens-Plania | Arrested and initially sentenced to death | Sentence was commuted to life in prison. | Worked with Fritz Goll, Alfred Drüsener, Ernst Reinke, Paul Lerm, Paul Klemke, Hermann Stahlberg and Otto Hartmann.[92] |
| Adolf Hofmann | | | | | | |
| (1902–1945) | Master carpenter, KPD member | Siemens Apparatuses and Machines Ltd. | On the 21 July 1944 Höhn was arrested | Sentenced to death in December 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof for "preparation for high treason" | Helped forced labourers by providing food and practiced sabotage at the factory complex.[93] [94] |
| Arthur Hoffmann | (1900–1945) | Carpenter, KPD member | | Arrested in July 1944 | Sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof 22–23 November 1944 to death for undermining the fighting forces and high treason. Executed in the execution yard of Münchner Platz in Leipzig. | One of the organisers of the anti-fascist resistance in Leipzig around Georg Schumann as part of the so-called Schumann-Engert-Kresse group.[95] [96] |
| (1906–1945) | Locksmith, KPD member | AEG-Turbinenfabrik | Arrested 13 February 1945. | Sentenced to death by the Berlin Court of Appeal in March 1945. Executed 10 April 1945 at Plötzensee Prison. | Joined the company resistance cell at AEG in 1935.[97] Collected monies for resistance fighters who were imprisoned. |
| (1914–1945) | Clerk, KPD member | | Arrested on 19 July 1944 | Tried on 23 January 1945 at the Volksgerichtshof and sentenced to death. Executed by guillotine on 19 March 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Joined the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization in 1943. Active in the publication of an illegal newspaper, "Der Scheinwerfer".[98] |
| Erwin Hübenthal | (1901–1993) | Fitter | Kärger AG | | Survived the war | Ran a resistance cell at Kärger AG that included six people. Acted as the main liaison to the Saefkow group. Hübenthal provided much of the research on what it was like to be a resistance fighter in a factory of 600 people, at Kärger AG.[99] |
| Richard Hützel Huwe | (1894-?) | KPD member | Kabelwerk | | | [100] | |
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Franz Jacob | (1906–1944) | Machinist, KPD member | | Jacob was arrested on 4 July 1944 | On 5 September 1944 he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichthof. He executed on 18 September 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. | Worked with his friends Bernhard Bästlein and Robert Abshagen to form the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen communist resistance group.[102] |
| Herbert Jacobi | | Entrepreneur and welder, KPD member | Primus-Traktoren | | | Part of a resistance cell with Hans Ackermann, Erwin Reisler, and Alois Wiesen at Argus.[103] |
| Max Jacoby | (1890-?) | Machine setter | Ludwig Loewe | | | Worked alongside Friedrich Klemstein and Erich Janke along with 40 other communists who actively resisted at the Ludwig Loewe factory.[104] |
| Otto Jahn | (1910-?) | Painter | Hasse & Wrede in Marzahn | | | Provided food for Russian slave labour locked in the factory at night. Also sabotaged the development of machine that made grenades.[105] |
| Alfred Janitzky | (1904–1969) | Machinist | AEG Turbine in Moabit | | | |
| Erich Janke | (1901–1982) | Lathe operator | Ludwig Loewe | | | Worked with Friedrich Klemstein and Max Jacoby along with 40 other colleague as part of group of communists at the FA. Ludwig Loewe factory, that worked to oppose the Nazis.[106] |
| (1897–1992) | Locksmith, KPD member | | Arrested in August 1944 | On 10 October 1944, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Volksgerichtshof. Sent to Brandenburg prison. | Leading KPD functionary. Member of the main resistance committee of the Saefkow resistance group.[107] |
| Bernhard Jeschkeit | | | Allemeine Werkzeugmaschinen AG | | | Distributed illegal communist leaflets in the company. Collaborated with Erdmann Meyer and Otto Gohlke.[108] |
| Wilhelm Jungmittag | (1908–1944) | Typesetter, later photographer. KPD member | Bamag-Meguin | Arrested 5 July 1944 | Sentenced to death on 7 September. Executed in Brandenburgh Prison on 20 November 1944 | Hid Bernhard Bästlein in his apartment in 1944.[109] |
| (1901–1944) | Machinist | Askania Werke | Arrested on 13 July 1944. | In November 1944 he was sentenced to death. Executed at Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary in December 1944. | Part of a resistance cell run by Paul Hirsch that included Erwin Kerber, Theodor Feuerherdt and Max Klamm. Ran the KPD group at Askania. Promoted the Free Germany movement as well as organising sabotage to production, distributed illegal pamphlets and collected food stamps and money for illegal immigrants.[110] [111] |
| Werner Jurr | (1904–1947) | Plumber, technical employee, former KPD member | Rote Hilfe instructor | Arrested on 20 July 1944 | Sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof to 7 years in Brandenburg penitentiary. Freed in April 1945 due to illness. Died of cancer in 1947 | Distributed communist materials from the National Committee for a Free Germany received from his collaborator, Erna Senkel.[112] [113] | |
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Alfred Kafka | (1906-?) | Saddler | Ambi-Budd | Appeared in court along with his wife on 25 April 1945 | | Gerda Kafka was his wife. Director of Red Aid in Berlin.[114] Worked with Walter König, Arno Kresse, Siegfried Flade, Hans Barnick and Ella Seibt in a resistance cell. |
| (1920–1945) | Saleswomen | | | Disappeared. Likely died in a fire. Declared dead on 22 April 1945 | Hid Gerhard Pergamenter and Josef Karb in her apartment when they escaped from custody. Provided food to slave labourers and worked as a courier for her husband.[115] |
| (1903–1945) | Designer, draughtsman, SPD member | Alkett Altmärkisches Kettenwerk | Arrested on 15 February 1945. Sentenced to death for "preparation for high treason" and "fruitfulness of encasion" | | Kapteina built a resistance cell at Alkett that sabotaged vehicle production as well as distributing leaflets from the Saefkow organisation.[116] |
| Bernhard Karl | (1916–1977) | KPD member | Ambi-Budd | | Survived the war | Worked with Alfred Kafka in collecting money and painting anti-war slogans.[117] He made his apartment available for forbidden meetings.[118] |
| Karl Kasten | (1909–1981) | KPD organisational leader | | | Survived the war | [119] |
| Gustav Kaufmann | | | | | | |
| (1911–1944) | Commercial clerk, KPD member | | Arrested on 26 July 1944 | Executed on 4 December 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden prison. | Conscripted with the rank of corporal and worked at the Wehrmacht equipment stores. Procured weapons and equipment for the group.[120] |
| Erwin Kerber | (1911–1981) | Designer, KPD member | | | | Spent most of the 1930s to almost end of war in jail. Joined resistance at the very end of war.[121] |
| (1905–1966) | Carpenter, later Politician. KPD member | Mitropa | | Survived the war | KPD functionary.[122] |
| (1906–1966) | Politician. KPD member | | | Survived the war | Women's leader of the KPD in the district of Wedding in Berlin.[123] |
| Max Klamm | (1898–) | Engineer, trade unionist | Askania-Werk | Arrested in 1944 | Sentenced to 8 years in prison. Survived the war. | KPO member.[124] |
| Paul Klemke | | | | | | |
| (1893–1945) | Trade unionist, KPD member | Ludwig Loewe & Co | Arrested on 18 September 1944 | On 2 February 1945 he was sentenced by Volksgerichtshof to death. Executed in April 1945 | Member of Red Aid. Established a cell in the Loewe factory. Distributed leaflets and collected monies for political prisoners[125] |
| Paul Klimmek | (1899–1949) | Pipe fitter, KPD member | Daimler-Benz AG | Arrested on 19 September 1944 | Sentenced to death for preparation for high treason. Liberated on 14 April 1945 | Part of a three-man resistance cell at Daimler-Benz that included Bruno Braun and Robert Uhrig.[126] |
| (1910–1944) | Mechanic | Siemans | Arrested on 13 December 1944 | Died from wounds received from torture | Disrupted production in the Sieman's factory.[127] [128] |
| Karl Klodt | | | | | | |
| (1904–1945) | Unskilled labour. Later worked in human resources | AEG Turbine | Arrested on 22 February 1945 | Sentenced to death for preparation of treason. Executed on 10 April 1945 in Plötzensee prison | Worked with Wilhelm Leist and Wilhelm Bösch to form a resistance cell at AEG Turbine.[129] |
| Otto Klubach | (1899-?) | Factory electrician, KPD member | Teves | | | Worked with Walter Kleist and others, and later Eva Tenner, Walter Pahl, Peter Strotzyk, along with Peter Strotzyk, Karl Venus and Willi Jahn in forming a communist resistance cell at Teves.[130] |
| Hans Kniffert | | KPD member | Siemens-Schaltwerk | | | [131] |
| Wilhelm Knop | | | | | | |
| Paul Knorr | (1898–1944) | Lathe operator, KPD member | Siemens AG | Arrested in autumn 1944 | Hanged himself 16 September 1944 out of fear of further hanging | [132] |
| (1901–1945) | Locksmith and mechanical engineer | Ludwig Loewe & Co | Arrested on 28 September 1944 and taken to Plötzensee Prison | Sentenced to three years in prison for "preparing to commit high treason". Died on an evacuation march. | Part of a resistance cell at Ludwig Loewe & Co.[133] |
| Hermann Köppen | (1901-?) | | | | | [134] |
| Kurt Kresse | (1904–1945) | Miner, later book printer. KPD member | | On 19 June 1944, Kresse was arrested for a second time. | Sentenced to death on 21 November 1944 and executed on 11 January 1945 | Worked with Georg Schumann to establish the KPD in Leipzig. Worked to sabotage war production.[135] |
| (1892–1944) | Gynecologist | | Arrested 8 July 1944 | Executed on 27 November 1944 in prison Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary | Treated prisoners and forced foreign labourers the same as native German patients. Donated money and provided medical help for forced laborers and fellow members of the group who had gone into hiding.[136] |
| (1910–1945) | Setter | Alfred Teves | Arrested in August 1944 | Sentenced to death on 14 December 1944 and executed at Brandenburg-Görden prison on 29 January 1945 | Helped to establish a resistance organisation at the factory and participated in the spread of illegal pamphlets and political anti-war propaganda.[137] |
| Kurt Kujawicki | (1913–1991) | Machinist | Askania | | | [138] |
| Wolfgang Kühn | | Physician | | | | Provided free medical support to slave labour. Supplied intelligence about the V-2 rocket collected from his Nazi patients.[139] |
| Walter Kühne | (1911–?) | Blacksmith | | | | |
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| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| (1909–1945) | Design engineer | Askania-Werke in Berlin-Mariendorf | Arrested on 12 July 1944 as part of a mass arrest as Askania. | One 29 November 1933, the Volksgerichtshof sentenced him together with Kurt Rühlmann, Stanislaus Szczygielski and Walter Zimmermann to death by guillotine. The sentence was carried out in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 8 January 1945. | Ladé resisted by disrupting armaments production, distributing leaflets, collecting money to support anti-fascists and procured food for illegal immigrants.[140] |
| Otto Lang | (1890–1945) | Office worker | AEG Turbine (Moabit) | | Executed by guillotine. | [141] |
| Fritz Lange | (1898–1981) | Resistance fighter, later politician, KPD member | | On 1 December 1942, he and Martin Weise were arrested | On 8 October 1943 he was convicted in the second Senate of the Reichskrieggericht for "complicity in treason and aiding the enemy" and sentenced to five years of hard labour. | Editor of the left-wing newspaper, Die Innere Front.[142] |
| (1901–1967) | Office clerk, Writer | | | Sentenced to "aiding and abetting desertion and providing information" to the Saefkow group | Provided news for the group. |
| Herbert Langowski | (1901–1962) | | AEG Turbine (Moabit) | | Survived the war | |
| Bruno Lauermann | | Locksmith | Kärger AG | | | Part of a resistance cell at AEG consisting of Paul Albrecht, toolmaker August Ditzell, labourer Herbert Hirl and the locksmith Otto Rosentreter. |
| Hugo Launicke | (1909–1975) | Construction worker, later politician, KPD member | | | Survived the war | Spent much of the war in a concentration camp. Worked as a KPD functionary while in jail. |
| Heinz Lehmann | (1911-1944) | KJVD functionary | Gummiwerke Weißensee | Denounced for stating "If this continues, the Russians will soon be in Berlin" and arrested on 15 May 1944 | Released for lack of evidence but the Gestapo sent him to a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was shot by the SS in April 1945 | Helped Soviet and French forced labourers and led an illegal KPD group in Karow. Also used his apartment for meetings. When he joined the Saefkow group in 1943, he procured materials for group and distributed leaflets.[143] |
| (1907–1945) | Mechanic, KPD member | Oberspree, AEG, Rheinmetall-Borsig | Arrested April 1944 | Sentenced to death on 11 January 1945. Executed in Brandenburg prison. | Sheltered Paul Hinze who was wanted by the Gestapo in his apartment. Distributed leaflets amongst forced foreign labour. |
| (1893–1945) | Locksmith, machinist, KPD member | | Arrested on 7 December 1944. Shot while attempting to escape and interned at Ravensbrück concentration camp | On 24 March 1945, he was sentenced to death by the Special Criminal Senate of the Berlin Court of Appeal and executed on 18 April 1945 in the Plötzensee prison | Passed information and documents about the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization to the Swedish Foreign Ministry.[144] |
| (1899–1945) | Lathe operator, KPD member | AEG Turbine (Moabit) | | Executed on 10 April 1945 in Plötzensee. | [145] |
| (1895–1944) | Electric engineer, KPD member | Berliner Maschinenbau AG | Arrested in 1942 | Sentenced to death on 17 March 1944 and executed on 17 July 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Responsible for the physics laboratory at the factory. Collected money, food and food stamps for forced foreign labourers.[146] |
| Emil Leo | | | | | | |
| Paul Lerm | (1909–1989) | Electrical engineer, KPD member | Siemens-Plania | | Survived the war | Collected money, food and food stamps for forced foreign labourers. Worked with a group led by Fritz Goll, consisting of Martin Hirschberg, Alfred Drüsener, Ernst Reinke, Paul Klemke, Hermann Stahlberg and Otto Hartmann at Siemens.[147] |
| (1908–1944) | Machinist, KPD member | | | Executed in Moabit prison | [148] [149] |
| Hans Lippmann | (1907-1944) | Engineer | Siemens & Halske | Arrested on 5 September 1944 and severely beaten by the Gestapo | Lippmann was shot in Sachsenhausen concentration camp without a trial on 24 November 1944 | Distributed leaflets from the Free German National Committee calling for the overthrow of Hitler.[150] |
| (1909–1994) | Stenotypist, KPD member | | Arrested on 25 July 1935 | Sentenced to 9 years in prison by the 2nd senate of the Volksgerichtshof for "arranging highly treasonous activity underaggravated circumstances". | Worked for the KPD before it was banned in the years leading up to the war and then after she was released in 1943.[151] |
| (1905–1945) | Typesetter and printer | Stolzenberg | Lüdtke was arrested on 28 July 1944 | On 14 December 1943, the First Senate of the People's Court, presided over by District Court Director Martin Stier, sentenced him to death | Part of a resistance cell at Stolzenberg. Also used his apartment to hold illegal meetings.[152] [153] |
| Walter Lurat | | | | | | |
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| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Arthur Magnor | (1890–1945) | Locksmith | Bergmann-Borsig AG | Arrested on 30 August 30, 1944, he was accused of a whole series of crimes. | Executed on 22 January 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Magnor had participated in a meeting of Saefkow supporters in the spring of 1944 and hosted the main camp of Bergmann-Borsig AG at his home in Bergfelde for an illegal meeting.[154] |
| Elisabeth Magnor | | | | | | |
| (1887–1944) | Teacher, later publisher. Women's activist | Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Ullstein Verlag | Arrested on 12 September 1944 | Died during Gesapo torture in | Passed on information from the German V-weapons programme to the Saefkow organisation |
| Jahn Masek | | | Knorr-Bremse | | | |
| (1895–1944) | KPD member | Magdeburger Mühle und Zuckerfabrik | Arrested in July 1944 | Hanged himself | Worked with Hermann Danz, Johann Schellheimer and Martin Schwantes. His tasks included contacting foreign forced laborers and distributing leaflets. |
| Ernst Mehlhase | (1891–?) | Welder and driller, KPD member | FA. Ludwig Loewe | | | Part of a resistance cell run by Friedrich Klemstein.[155] |
| Harry Menzel | | | | | | |
| Herbert Meybaum | | KPD member | Askania | | | Part of a communist cell as Askania |
| (1910–2001) | Architect, KPD member | Reichsleitung der Rotsportle | | Survived the war | [156] [157] [158] |
| Erich Mielke | (1902–1945) | Foreman | FA. Schulze & Schneider | | | Worked with Erich Fähling. Distributed leaflets in Siemens factory.[159] [160] |
| August Mikutta | (1893-?) | Packer | Deutscher Verlag | | Sentenced to three years in prison | [161] |
| (1885–1956) | Model carpenter and politician, KPD member | AEG Turbine | Arrested 25 July 1944 | Sentenced to three years in prison for "for preparation for high treason and enemy defeat" and sent to Brandenburg penitentiary. | Member of the central committee of the KPD. Wrote for the Rote Fahne.[162] [163] |
| Wilhelm Moll | (1900–1944) | Cutter | Siemens & Halske | Arrested on 8 July 1944 | Executed 11 August 1944 | Used his apartment for illegal meetings.[164] |
| Karl Müller | | | AEG Turbine | | | |
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| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Kurt Nast | (1908-?) | Trade unionist, milling-machine operator | Schwarzkopff | | | Collaborated with Erwin Reisler. Collected money and clothing for forced foreign labourers and taking steps to sabotage war production at the factory.[165] [166] |
| Robert Neddermeyer | (1887–1965) | Poultry farmer, later activist and communist politician. | | Arrested on 18 July 1944 for being a member of the Anton Saefkow group | On 6 October 1944 he was sentenced to three years in Brandenburg-Görden prison. Survived the war | Editor on the "Socialist Republic" underground communist newspaper in Cologne.[167] [168] |
| Emil Nehring | (1881–1944) | Locksmith, KPD member | Alfred Teves Maschinen | | | From 1934 distributed leaflets at the Alfred Teves company. Later attempted to reduce production at the company by created a broad-consensus amongst all the workers to sabotage production.[169] |
| (1890–1945) | Sociologist, KPD member | | Arrested on 14 July 1944 | On 8 January 1945 he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof for "preparation for high treason and favoring the enemy". On 5 February 1945 he was beheaded in Brandenburg-Görden prison. | Built the communist Neubauer-Poser Group that was in contact to the Saefkow group.[170] |
| (1901–1987) | Shorthand typist, KPD member | | On 27 September 1944, she was arrested and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp | On 28 April 1945, she was forced on a death march towards Schwerin. After the guards escaped, she was liberated by the Red Army on 1 May 1945 | Her husband Karl Neuhof was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in October 1943 and, as a resistance fighter of Jewish descent, was shot without trial on 15 November 1943.[171] |
| (1906–1944) | Precision mechanic | Siemens | Arrested on 5 July 1944 | On 5 December 1944 he was sentenced to death and was executed in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 24 October 1944 | Used his workshop for illegal meetings and for printing of illegal newspapers and leaftlets.[172] |
| (1913–1944) | Locksmith, KPD member | FA. Erwin Auert | Arrested by the Gestapo in July 1944 | Sentenced to death 19 September 1944. Executed on 6 November 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary | Member of Red Front Fighters' League along with Paul Dumont and Altred Grün.[173] [174] |
| Paul Nowak | | Assistant fitter | FA. Ludwig Loewe | | | |
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| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Willi Paarmann | | Grinder | AEG Wildau | | Executed in Brandenburg prison on 13 November 1944. | Joined the Saefkow in Christmas 1943 and distributed illegal leaflets to companies in the area he worked in.[175] |
| Walter Pahl | | | | | | |
| (1897–1945) | Saddler, KPD member, Red Aid member | | | Escaped the Gestapo dragnet after his wife was arrested, but died in Berlin in April 1945 during a fight with the SS to save the locks from being blown up. His wife was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp but was liberated in April 1945. | Distributed monies amongst various resistance people.[176] |
| (1889–1945) | Bookbinder, German publisher | Deutscher Verlag | On 28 August 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo | In January 1945 sentenced to 4 years in prison. He died two months later in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Held secret trade union meetings at his company, received and distributed banned communist publications and worked to recruit further members.[177] [178] |
| Richard Piepenburg | | | AEG Turbine (Moabit) | | | |
| (1904–1945) | Mechanical engineer, KPD member | AEG Turbine (Moabit) | Arrested at the beginning of 1945 | Convicted and sentenced to death for "preparation for high treason". Executed on 13 April 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee prison | Worked with Wilhelm Leist in a resistance cell at AEG Turbine factory.[179] [180] |
| Martha Plenzdorf | (1906-?) | KPD member | Osram, Askania | | Survived the war | Active in a resistance cell at Askania.[181] |
| (1906–1944) | Welder, KPD member | AEG | Arrested by the Gestapo on 4 February 1942 | Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof on 7 July 1942. Plön was executed in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 28 August 1944 | Leader of a resistance cell that included the communists Judith Auer, Kurt Kuhrig, Willi Mathias and the Social Democrat Carl Klodt.[182] |
| Waldemar Plotek | (1880–1945) | Labourer | FA. Miner (Wilhelmsruh) | | Brandenburg-Görden prison | |
| Heinz Plüschke | (1897–1954) | Welder | | | | Distributor of the illegal communist leaflet Die Innere Front |
| Erna Plüschke | | | | | | Distributor of the illegal communist leaflet Die Innere Front |
| Erich Pohl | (1886-1945) | Labourer | AEG Turbine (Moabit) | Arrested on 22 February 1945 | Sentenced to death on 24 March 1945. Executed on 13 April 1945 in Plötzensee Prison | Resisted with Richard Weller at AEG by providing the use of his telephone, car and typewriter to the resistance cell. Distributed leaflets.[183] |
| (1907–1944) | Carpenter, KPD member | | Arrested on 14 July 1944. Tried to flee on 20 July 1944 and was shot. | Taken to Buchenwald concentration camp sick area where he died of his wounds. | Worked with Theodor Neubauer. Formed an illegal publishers in Jena where he published at least five different leaflets by autumn 1943.[184] |
| (1909–1984) | Typist and cashier later politician. KPD member | | | Survived the war | Wife of Magnus Poser[185] |
| Erich Prenzlau | | | | | | |
| Emil Priemer | | Foreman | | | | |
| Franz Pütz | (?-1944) | Merchant | | | | | |
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Ernst Reinke | (1891–1943) | Mixer, KPD member | Siemens | Arrested in September 1939 | Sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp then moved to Flossenbürg concentration camp | Established an illegal resistance cell in Siemens.[186] [187] |
| Erwin Reisler | (1911–1996) | | Argus | | | |
| (1911–2000) | Bricklayer, KPD member, Politician | | Arrested in December 1940. | Sentenced to three year and six months in prison by the Volksgerichtshof and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he escaped. Survived the war | Worked as a KPD organiser during the war.[188] |
| Paul Richter | (1885–1945) | Machine Fitter | | | | |
| (1888–1945) | Politician, KPD member | | Arrested in July 1944 | Sentenced to death on 1 November 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof. Executed in Brandenburg-Görden prison in March 1945 at the same time as Danz, Martin Schwantes and Johann Schellheimer | Collaborated with Hermann Danz and through him the Saefkow group. Resistance member of the [189] |
| Fritz Rossignol | (1903–1993) | Engineer, KPD member | | Arrested in January 1945. He was tried and acquitted | Released along with his wife. Survived the war. | Received illegal documentation from Franz Jacob.[190] [191] |
| Margarete Rossignol | (1904–?) | KPD member | | | Survived the war | Wife of Fritz Rossignol, Collaborated with her husband. |
| Karl Rudolf | | Locksmith | Kärger AG | | | |
| Otto Rosentreter | | Locksmith | Kärger AG | | | Collaborated in a resistance cell with Paul Albrecht, August Ditzell, Herbert Hirl and the Bruno Lauermann and Otto Rosentreter.[192] |
| Heinz Rottke | (1904–1944) | | | | | |
| Karl Rudolf | | Riveter | Heinkel | | | |
| (1903–1945) | Locksmith, mechanic, KPD member | Akania | Arrested 28 July 1944 in Friedeberg | Executed on 8 January 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Established a resistance cell with Walter Zimmermann, Walter Ziehmann, Karl Lade in Askania.[193] [194] |
| Kurt Rydlewski | (1907-?) | Toolmaker | | | | |
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| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| (1902–1945) | Historian | | Arrested 15 August 1944 and sent to Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp | Later sent to Neuengamme concentration camp. In March 1945 he was forced into a death march to Lübeck and died. | Was active in the resistance in Leipzig working with Alfred Frank and later Hamburg. Together with Maria Grollmuß and Hermann Reinmuth, they supported political prisoners and their families.[195] |
| (1898–1945) | | | | | |
| (1902–1962) | Stenographer, secretary, KPD member | | Arrested on 5 July 1944 | Sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp on 5 March 1944. Liberated by the Red Army on 1 May 1945 | Married to Anton Saefkow and was second wife. Became a resistance fighter in 1941.[196] |
| (1903–1944) | Metalworker, KPD member, Leader | | In July 1944, Saefkow was arrested, sentenced to death by the "People's Court" Volksgerichtshof on 5 September 1944 | Executed on 18 September by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison | [197] [198] [199] [200] [201] [202] |
| (1894–1944) | Communist functionary | Courier to Leipzig for the Schumann-Engert-Kresse group | Arrested on 6 July 1944. On 21 October 1944 he was sentenced to death | On 27 November 1944 he was executed at the Brandenburg-Görden Prison | [203] |
| Max Sauer | (1893–1961) | Foreman, KPD member | Stolzenberg & Co. | | Survived the war | Worked with Erich Fähling to distribute illegal communist newspapers.[204] |
|
| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Erich Schaeffer | | | Alkett | | | |
| Wilhelm Scheer | (1906–1944) | Painter | Nicolaus & Co | Arrested on 16 July 1944 | Sentenced to death on September 19, 1944 and executed together with Basse in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 6 November 1944 | Collaborated with Gustav Basse and Erich Fähling. Through Basse, secured a printing press for the Seafkow organisation. Printed and distributed leaflets.[205] |
| (1899–1945) | Turner | Hubbe & Farenholtz | Arrested in July 1944 | In February 1945, executed in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Collaborated with Hermann Danz in Magdeburg.[206] |
| (1900–1978) | Industrial worker | | | Survived the war | |
| Albert Schimmel | (1900-?) | | | | | |
| Gustav Schlaupitz | | | Knorr-Bremse | | | Collaborated with Max Eckert, Ernst Klein, Jahn Masek, Richard Weißensteiner, and Fritz Giersch but were unable to resist at the politically "cleansed" factory. Provided money to forced foreign labour.[207] |
| Helene Schlör | (1887–1964) | | | | Survived the war | Wife of Schlör. Married in 1934. |
| Jakob Schlör | (1888–1956) | Waiter, editor, trade unionist, KPD member | | | Survived the war | Collaborated with Karl Baier, Georg Dünninghaus, Willi Schönbeck, Franz Demuth, Albert Almstedt and Otto Marquardt. Member of the SED executive committee after the war.[208] |
| Alfons Schmid | | | Askania | | | |
| (1891–1985) | Trade unionist, later politician. KPD member | | | Survived the war | Ran the Erfurt sub-district during the war. KPD organiser.[209] |
| Franz Schmidt | (1885–1944) | Nurse, courier | Kabelwerk Oberspree | | Sentenced to death on 31 August 1944. On 30 October, she was executed in Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary | Provided food and accommodation for illegal workers.[210] |
| Wilhelm Schmidt | (1895-1944) | Locksmith, KPD member | Teves | Arrested by the Gestapo on 10 August 1944 | Sentenced to death for "preparation for high treason" | [211] |
| Ruth Schneider | | | | | | Held illegal meetings in her apartment. Collaborated with Käthe Schulz and Caesar Horn.[212] [213] |
| Grete Schöneck | (1911–2004) | Management secretary, KPD member | | | Survived the war. | Her mother Pauline Schmidt, who was interrogated died.[214] |
| Hans Schönfelder | (1921–1944) | Toolmaker | Askania | | | Distributed illegal leaflets.[215] |
| Paul Schütze | | | | | | |
| Hans Schulz | (1898–1945) | Lathe operator | Ludwig Loewe | Arrested on 27 September 1944 | In December 1944 he was sentenced to death for "preparation for high treason". He was executed on 20 April 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | He distributed illegal pamphlets, conveyed news from foreign channels and collected money and worked with Kurt Winkler to obtain weapons.[216] |
| Käthe Schulz | | | | | | Used her home to host leadership meetings of the organisation. Later hid Rudolf Drabinski and a Jewish women.[217] |
| (1903–1945) | Toolmaker, KPD member | Siemens & Halske | On 17 July 1944 he was arrested. He was sentenced to death for preparing to commit high treason and | He was executed in the courtyard of Brandenburg-Görden prison on 29 January 29, 1945. | Schultz distributed illegal pamphlets, collected money and food stamps for slave workers, and made his home available for illegal meetings.[218] |
| Marga Schumacher | | | | On 9 September 1944 | Savagely beaten by the Gestapo during interrogation as she was Jewish and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp via Fehrbellin labour education camp. Survived the war. | Worked with the resistance cell ran by Hugo Kapteina. Hans Lippmann, Arthur Grimmer, Reinhold Hermann were part of the cell. Released by the Red Army in April 1945.[219] Hid Georg Dimentstein from the Gestapo after Kapteina was arrested. [220] |
| Willy Schumacher | | | Hasse & Wrede | | | [221] |
| (1886–1945) | Toolmaker, SPD member, KPD Executive, Politician | | Arrested on 19 July 1944 by the Gestapo. On 21 November 1944, he was sentenced to death for "preparation for high treason" | Executed in the courtyard of Dresden court on 11 January 1945 at the same time as Otto Engert and Kurt Kresse. | Established the Schumann-Engert-Kresse Organisation.[222] |
| Martin Schwantes | (1904–1945) | Master watchmaker, KPD member | | Arrested on 9 July 1944 and was sentenced to death on 5 November 1944 | | Collaborated with Walter Kaßner and Ernst Brandt. KPD instructor. Together with Hermann Danz, Eva Lippold, Friedrich Rödel and Johann Schellheimer, he formed a resistance group active in the Magdeburg area.[223] |
| Otto Schwandt | (1904- | Baker, turner | Ludwig Loewe | Arrested on 13 October 1944 | | Survived the war.[224] |
| (1896–1945) | Baker, KPD member | | Arrested on 19 July 1944. Sentenced to death on 23 November 1944 | Executed in Dresden in January 1945 | Worked to rebuild the banned KPD in Leipzig. Later co-editor of the illegally published newspaper Resistance against war and Nazi rule.[225] |
| Fritz Schwinzert | (1903–1971) | factory inspector | AEG Turbine | | Survived the war | [226] |
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| Name | Life | Employment | Position | Arrested | Fate | Notes |
|---|
| Martha Segers | | Pensioner | | | | |
| Clemens Seifert | (1905–1981) | KPD member | | | Survived the war | German worker athlete associated with Paul Hirsch, Paul Seher, Herbert Dymke at the Sportverein Berlin-Neukölln. Helped forced foreign prisoners.[227] |
| (1908–1945) | Pipe fitter, later an auditor, KPD member | Siemens & Halske-Werke | Arrested in September 1944 | Sentenced to death by the People's Court on 18 December 1944 and executed by guillotine in Brandenburg-Görden prison on 29 January 1945 | Ran a cell in the factory along with Egmont Schultz who was the liaison to the organisation for the factory.[228] |
| Jacques Seintier | (1921–?) | Toolmaker, KPD member | | | | [229] |
| (1893–1945) | Bookbinder | | Arrested on 10 August 1944 | Kept in prison for two years. A second trial was held in January 1945 against Selke and 13 other defendants. Sentenced to death for high treason on 18 January 1945. Executed on 26 February 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Recruited into the Seafkow organisation by Wilhelm Heinze. Formed a trade union in his publishing company "Rudolf Peter". The group collected money and food stamps for the resistance, sought to sabotage the production of Nazi books and spread illegal writings and leaflets.[230] |
| Kurt Sempf | (1904-?) | Mechanical engineer | FA. Ludwig Loewe | | | [231] [232] |
| (1916–1994) | Railroad worker | | Arrested on 14 August 1944, in Küstrin | Charged in the People's Court for preparation for high treason,favoured by the enemy and war treason. Freed on 14 April 1945 in Bayreuth. Survived the war. | Created sticky notes to post on walls and street lamps. Participated in the dissemination of the illegal paper, Die Innere Front (The Inner Front).[233] [234] |
| Kurt Siering | (1915-?) | KVJD member | | | | |
| (1877–1945) | Civil engineer on railways, Writer, SPD, SAP member | | Arrested 3 September 1944. | On 1 December 1944, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof. He was shot along with Klaus Bonhoeffer and Rüdiger Schleicher on the night of 22 April 1945 | Supported the resistance organisation run by Georg Schumann. Helped Chief of Staff of the Artillery Oberkommando des Heeres General Fritz Lindemann to escape after the failure of the 20 July plot.[235] [236] |
| Ernst Siebert | (1916–1994) | | | | | |
| (1904–1945) | SPD, KPD member | | Arrested on Wuppertal on 23 June 1933 and sentenced to three years on 31 October 1934 by the Volksgerichtshof. Sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Released in 1939 and repeatedly rearrested. | Shot by the Gestapo in Radeberg in the Radeberg refugee camp, at the end of March 1945. | Ran the KPD office in Dresden from March 1933 onwards.[237] |
| Joseph Smolka | (1897–?) | Glassblower, civil servant KPD member later KPO member | | Arrested several times in the early 1930s but missed the main wave of arrests later in the war. | Survived the war | Collaborated with Georg Schumann, Theodor Neubauer and Anton Saefkow. Supplied monies to the group.[238] |
| (1912–1945) | Toolmaker, KPD member | Alfred Teves | On the 14 December 1944, the People's Court sentenced him to death for "preparation for high treason" and "enemy favouring the war". | On the 29 January 1945, Splanemann was executed in the Brandenburg-Görden prison | Worked with Karl Fübinger, Otto Kroeger, Heinz Drzymala, Wilhelm Schmidt and Paul Richter to establish a resistance cell in the Teves factory.[239] |
| Alfred Sonneson | (1902–1944) | Turner | L. Schwartzkopff | Arrested on 23 May 1943 | Sentenced to death on 25 March 1944. Executed in Brandenburg-Görden Prison on 30 May 1944 | [240] |
| Hermann Stahlberg | | | Siemens-Plania | | | |
| Willi Stoph | (1914–1999) | Bricklayer, KPD member, Politician | | | | Indirect contact with the Saefkow organisation.[241] [242] |
| Johanna Steinbach | (1894–1968) | | | | | Wife of Kurt Steinbach. |
| (1898–1945) | Telegraphy technician, KPD member | | Arrested 20 July 1944 and sentenced to death on 13 December 1944 | Executed on 22 January 22 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Sheltered a Jewish couple and their child. Collaborated with Gustav Wegener and delivered a typewriter.[243] [244] [245] |
| (1902–1945) | Metal sorter, KPD member | Askania | Arrested 4 August 1944 and sentenced to death 30 November 1944 | On 8 January 1945, he was executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Szczygielski donated money to the organization, distributed anti-fascist pamphlets and acted in the role of recruiter.[246] [247] |
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| Helmut Wagner | (1911–1944) | KPD member | | Arrested again on 8 July 8, 1944, sentenced to death on 26 October by the Volksgerichtshof | Executed 4 December 1944 in Brandenburg Prison | Worked with Otto Gresch and Herbert Fölster to run an underground courier service for the group.[258] [259] |
| Marta Wagner | | | | | | |
| Lisa Walter | | | | | | Girlfriend of Herbert Tschäpe in a Neukölln resistance cell. Introduced Fritz Reuter to Saefkow.[260] |
| Georgi Wassiljew | | | | | | Organiser of the resistance in several prisoner-of-war camps, who managed to escape in the early summer of 1944 with the help of Willy Hielscher and Arthur Magnor |
| (1908–1944) | Typesetter, KPD member | | Arrested in July 1944 | Sentenced to death on 21 October 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof and executed on 11 December 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | His code name was "Hans". Wegener. He was the main organiser for the production and publishing of underground leaflets for the organisation.[261] [262] |
| (1906–1978) | Mechanic and telegraph worker, KAPD member | | | Survived the war | Worked with the communist resistance to organise a number of resistance cells.[263] [264] |
| Arthur Weisbrodt | 1909–1944) | Optician, KPD member | Courier for Rote Hilfe | Arrested on 19 September 1944 | Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed on the 6 November 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Publisher of the underground newspaper of the Rote Hilfe, the Tribunal.[265] |
| Martin Weise | (1903–1943) | Journalist, KPD member | | 8 October 1943 the 2nd Senate of the People's Court condemded him to death. | Executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison on 15 November 1943 | Lead writer of the Die Innere Front.[266] |
| (1901–1946) | KPD member | Brandenburgische Motorenwerken (Bramo) | Arrested 1 August 1944 | On 6. October 1944 sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Volksgerichtshof. Liberated by the Red Army. | Worked with Heinz Hartwig and Hans Schwarze to form a cell at Bramo.[267] |
| Richard Weissensteiner | (1907–1943) | Welder, KPD member | Knorr-Bremse | Weißensteiner and his wife were arrested on 16 September 1942 | Executed at Plötzensee Prison on 13 May 1943 | Met Hans Coppi, later Eugen Neutert and became a member of the Red Orchestra. Attended meetings, distributed leaflets. Also hid the parachutist in his apartment.[268] |
| (1904–1980) | Advertising artist, later politician, KPD member | | Arrested on 8 October 1944 | Imprisoned in Moabit prison. Liberated by the Red Army. Survived the war | KPD procurement officer.[269] |
| Fritz Werner | | | Askania | | | |
| Heinrich Werner | (1906–1945) | Clerk with the rank of sergeant in the wehrmacht | Wehrmacht Propaganda Office | Arrested on 8 July 1944 | Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtsh on 18 September 1944. Executed on 15 January 1945 in the Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Acted as an informant by providing official documentation for the group.[270] |
| Alois Wiesen | | | Argus AG | | | Worked with Erwin Reisler and Hans Ackermann in a resistance cell at the welding shop at Argus.[271] |
| (1906–1945) | Warehouse worker | Askania AG | Arrested on 14 July 1944 | On 30 November 1944 was sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof to 10 years in prison. Sent first to Brandenburg-Görden Prison then later transferred to where he disappeared. | Worked with Paul Hirsch and Richard Bergow in a resistance cell at Askania. Used his apartment to host meetings with Gustav Wegener.[272] |
| (1903–1944) | Engineer, KPD member | Zeiss, later Sunt Vergaser AG | Arrested on 17 July 1944 | Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof on 20 September 1944. Executed on 13 November 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Worked with Theodor Neubauer. Established a cell at Sunt Vergaser AG to sabotage the factory. His wife Annegret used their home for illegal meetings.[273] |
| (1885–1945) | Hotel worker, Trade unionist, KPD member | | Arrested on 12 August 1944 | Sentenced to death on 18 January 1945 for "high treason" and executed 26 February 1945 in the Brandenburg-Görden Prison | Used his position in the hospitality industry to get food stamps and monies to Saefkow for distribution. Also distributed leaflets.[274] [275] |
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