Robert Abshagen

Robert Abshagen ( born January 12, 1911 in Hamburg, † July 10, 1944 ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Life

Initially employed as an insurance agent, Abshagen later worked as a sailor and a construction worker. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany.

From 1933 he participated in the illegal war of resistance against National Socialism in Hamburg. 1934 sentenced him, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg because of " conspiracy to commit high treason" for two and a half years' imprisonment, which he spent in Bremen- Oslebshausen. After serving this sentence, he was placed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and used there in the infirmary. After his release in April 1939, he participated again the opposition of the Communist Party in Hamburg and in the district water's edge and established contacts with the 1940 released from prison Bästlein Bernhard and Franz Jacob. The resistance group was later called Bästlein -Jacob Abshagen group. Abshagen took over the manual operation of various cells and kept in touch for resistance in other areas of Germany upright. So Abshagen went to Berlin, Saxony and Thuringia and made ​​contact to anti-fascists in the Ruhr.

A wave of arrests by the Gestapo in connection with the investigation of the Special Commission " Red Orchestra" by Erna Eifler and Wilhelm Felldorf recorded on October 19, 1942 Robert Abshagen. The People's Court sentenced him on May 2, 1944 to the death. He was beheaded on 10 July 1944 in Hamburg. His ashes were buried in the 1946 Ehrenhain Hamburger resistance fighters in the cemetery Ohlsdorf.

At last Abshagens Lives in Hamburg- Barmbek ( Wachtelstraße 4) a stumbling stone was laid.