Eugen Eduard Neutert (19 March 1905 – 9 September 1943) was a German

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and

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against

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Biography

Neutert was born in the Hermsdorf district of

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. In 1923, he emigrated to

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where he lived until 1926, when he returned to Germany. Due to his membership in the

Communist Party of Germany The Communist Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, , KPD ) was a major political party in the Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West German ...

(KPD), Neutert was fired from his job as an electrician in 1928; he then earned a living as a

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. After the

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came to power in 1933, Neutert was active in the communist resistance. He was arrested on 16 September 1936, and sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment by the People's Court, which he served in Brandenburg-Görden Prison and

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. After his release in spring 1939, Neutert continued his activities with the underground resistance. Working together with

Hans Coppi Hans-Wedigo Robert Coppi (25 January 1916 – 22 December 1942) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazis. He was a member of a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. Lif ...

and other members of the Red Orchestra, Neutert's main task was the production and distribution of flyers and leaflets; he was involved in the production of ''Die innere Front'', an illegal newspaper published by the Red Orchestra. On 23 October 1942, Neutert was arrested once again. He was sentenced to death by the People's Court in August 1943, and executed in

Plötzensee Prison Plötzensee Prison (german: Justizvollzugsanstalt Plötzensee, JVA Plötzensee) is a juvenile prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration. The d ...

on 9 September the same year. A ''

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'' in memory of Neutert is located in Richard-Sorge-Straße 65 in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, the address where he lived.

References

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