Siegmund Sredzki

Siegmund Sredzki ( born November 30, 1892 in Berlin, † October 11, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism. Besides Siegmund Sredzki the family still further resistance fighters came from.

Life

Siegmund Sredzki was a lathe operator and joined the USPD in 1918 and 1920, the KPD. He has worked in leading positions left-wing organizations, such as a member of the national leadership of the Association of Proletarian Freethinkers and as head of the League of Friends of the Soviet Union in the district Berlin. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany, he worked in the resistance struggle and was one of five KPD Hauptinstrukteuren in Berlin. He was arrested several times in 1933 and 1934. On December 7, 1934 he was arrested together with his wife Margaret and his son Gerard of the Gestapo and sentenced to five years in prison on 9 June 1936 by the Berlin Court of Appeal because of " conspiracy to commit high treason ," which he, inter alia, in Luckau, had to spend in the prison camps Börgermoor, esters paths and Aschendorfermoor. After the adhesive Sredzki was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939. He was involved in the organization conducting the illegal work of the prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was at the head of solidarity actions for the coming into camp starved Soviet POWs. In the fall of 1944, the activities of illegal group of the SS was discovered. After weeks of severe torture, 27 were anti-fascist resistance fighters - including Siegmund Sredzki - murdered in ditch shot to the neck of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Tributes

Since January 31, 1952 street in Berlin 's Prenzlauer Berg district is named after him, the Sredzkistraße. From 1974 to 1991, a school was located in the immediate vicinity ( the 23 POS) named after him. With the closure of the school in 1991 and the change of use of the building as an elementary school, the name was abandoned. The stele " traditions of the German working class " by Heinz Worner front of the school building in the Knaackstraße is dedicated to the murdered anti-fascist Ernst Knaack and Siegmund Sredzki.