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This list contains the names of individuals involved in the

German resistance to Nazism Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime engaged in active resistance, including assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler, attempts to remove Adolf Hitler from power by assassination or by overthro ...

, but is not a complete list. Names are periodically added, but not all names are known. There are both men and women on this list of ''Widerstandskämpfer'' ("Resistance fighters") primarily German, some Austrian or from elsewhere, who risked or lost their lives in a number of ways. They tried to overthrow the

National Socialist Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

regime, they denounced its wars as criminal, tried to prevent

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and sabotaged German attacks on other countries. Some tried to protect those who were being harmed and persecuted by the Nazis, others merely refused to contribute to the Nazi war effort. Most of those on the list worked with others; their affiliated resistance group or groups are listed. Where no group is mentioned, the individual acted alone.

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Anton Ackermann Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician. In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dieter K. Buse, and Juergen C. Doerr, eds., ''Mode ...

(real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 December 1905

Thalheim, Saxony Thalheim is a town in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated 5 km east of Stollberg, and 16 km south of Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city ...

- 4 May 1973

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

) was an

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

politician * (1876–1951)

Deutsche Demokratische Partei The German Democratic Party (, or DDP) was a center-left liberal party in the Weimar Republic. Along with the German People's Party (, or DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933. It was formed in 1918 from the ...

(DDP),

National Committee for a Free Germany The National Committee for a Free Germany (german: Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland, or NKFD) was a German anti-Nazi organization that operated in the Soviet Union during World War II.The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occ ...

in Switzerland *

Wolfgang Abendroth Wolfgang Walter Arnulf Abendroth (2 May 1906 – 15 September 1985) was a socialist German jurist and political scientist. He was born in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Abendroth was an important contributor to the c ...

(1906–1985) KPO,

Neu Beginnen Neu Beginnen (English: " obegin anew") was an anti-fascist opposition group formed in 1929 by left-wing members of the Social Democratic Party. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, the members of the small group discussed what the future of Germa ...

ELAS The Greek People's Liberation Army ( el, Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός (ΕΛΑΣ), ''Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós'' (ELAS) was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberat ...

* (1894–1949) DDP *

Robert Abshagen Robert Abshagen (12 January 1911 in Hamburg – 10 July 1944) was a German Resistance fighter against National Socialism and a Communist. Biography Abshagen first worked in insurance, then as a sailor and finally, as a construction worker. He jo ...

(1911–1944),

KPD 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 ...

* Alexander Abusch (1902–1982),

* (1888–1943),

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

, supporter of Polish resistance group organized by Ignaz Hulka * (1918–1995), White Rose *

Edgar André Edgar André may refer to: * Edgar André (politician) * Edgar André (footballer) {{hndis, Andre, Edgar ...

(1894–1936),

"Männer und Frauen aus dem Hamburger Widerstand"
List of Hamburg Resistance fighters executed or who died in custody. * (1885–1960),

Agnes Asche Agnes Asche (13 December 1891 – 7 January 1966), also known as Agnes Bertram and Agnes Jünemann, was a German socialist who resisted the Nazis. A street in Hanover is named in her honor. Biography Asche became a widow when her first husband ...

(1881–1966),

member, arrested for distributing illegal newspapers *

Rosa Aschenbrenner Rosa Aschenbrenner (born ''Rosa Lierl'': 27 April 1885 – 9 February 1967) was a German politician (KPD / SPD). After the Second World War, she became increasingly marginalised from the political mainstream because of her opposition to rearmame ...

(1885–1967),

Rote Hilfe The Rote Hilfe ("Red Aid") was the German affiliate of the International Red Aid. The Rote Hilfe was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany and existed between 1924 and 1936. Its purpose was to provide help to those Communists who had bee ...

Judith Auer Judith Auer (née Vallentin) (19 September 1905 – 27 October 1944) was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany. Early life Auer was born in Zürich. Her father was the communist writer, Erich Vallentin.Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization was an underground German resistance movement acting during the Second World War, that published the illegal magazine, '' Die Innere Front'' ("The Internal Front"). In the 1940s, the Communist Party of Germ ...

* (1905–1975)

International Transport Workers' Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership ...

Hermann Axen Hermann Axen (6 March 1916 – 15 February 1992) was a German political activist who became involved in political resistance during the twelve Nazi years, most of which he spent in state detention. After the war he became a national politician ...

(1916–1992),

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* Bruno Bachler,

Edelweißpiraten The Edelweiss Pirates (german: Edelweißpiraten ) were a loosely organized group of youths opposed to the status quo of Nazi Germany. They emerged in western Germany out of the German Youth Movement of the late 1930s in response to the strict re ...

Lagi von Ballestrem So'oa'emalelagi Gräfin von Ballestrem (née Solf, 31 August 1909 – 14 September 1955) was a part of the German resistance to Nazism as a member of the Solf Circle. She was born in Vailima, German Samoa as the daughter of Wilhelm Solf, the Germ ...

(1909–1955),

Solf Circle The Solf Circle (german: Solf-Kreis) was an informal gathering of German intellectuals involved in the resistance against Nazi Germany. Most members were arrested and executed after attending a tea party in Berlin on 10 September 1943 at the resid ...

* (1897–1945), KPD *

Karl Baier Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

(1887–1973),

* (1881–1931), KPD *

Karl Barth Karl Barth (; ; – ) was a Swiss Calvinist theologian. Barth is best known for his commentary '' The Epistle to the Romans'', his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship (except for a single phrase) of the Barmen Declara ...

(1886–1968), theologian, Confessing Church * (1906–1944), KPD * Bernhard Bästlein (1894–1944), Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group and

Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization was an underground German resistance movement acting during the Second World War, that published the illegal magazine, '' Die Innere Front'' ("The Internal Front"). In the 1940s, the Communist Party of Germ ...

Albert Battel Albert Battel (; 21 January 1891 – 1952) was a German Army lieutenant and lawyer recognized for his resistance during World War II to the Nazi plans for the 1942 liquidation of the Przemyśl Jewish ghetto. He was posthumously recognized a ...

(1891–1952), Wehrmacht * Herbert Baum (1912–1942),

KJVD The Young Communist League of Germany (, abbreviated KJVD) was a political youth organization in Germany. History The KJVD was formed in 1920 from the Free Socialist Youth () of the Communist Party of Germany, A prior youth wing had been forme ...

, Herbert Baum Group *

Marianne Baum Marianne Baum (February 9, 1912 – August 18, 1942) was a German communist and anti-Nazi. She was executed after an attack on a propaganda show in Berlin. Life and death Marianne Baum was born in Saarburg in 1912 into a Jewish family. She had on ...

(1912–1942), Herbert Baum Group * (1911–1988), SPD-RK * (1905–1938), KPD *

Arno Behrisch Arno Erich Behrisch (June 6, 1913 – September 16, 1989) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is th ...

(1913–1989),

Socialist Workers' Party of Germany The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD) was a centrist Marxist political party in Germany. It was formed as a left-wing party with around 20,000 members which split off from the SPD in ...

, ITF * (1896–1997), Catholic church * Hans Beimler (Communist) (1895–1936), KPD * Walter Beling (1899–1988),

Résistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

* (1895–1942), KPD * Helene Berg (1906–2006) * (b. 1914-2011), IKD, secretary of Oskar Schindler * (1913–2005) KPO * (1877–1949),

Gustav Bermel The Ehrenfeld Group (german: Ehrenfelder Gruppe, ; sometimes called the Steinbrück Group, german: Steinbrück-Gruppe, ) was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944. The group, which consisted of over one hundred pe ...

(1927–1944),

Ehrenfeld Group The Ehrenfeld Group (german: Ehrenfelder Gruppe, ; sometimes called the Steinbrück Group, german: Steinbrück-Gruppe, ) was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944. The group, which consisted of over one hundred pe ...

Eberhard Bethge Eberhard Bethge (August 28, 1909 – March 18, 2000) was a German theologian and pastor, best known for being the close friend and biographer of the theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Early life Bethge was born in Rosenau (Branden ...

(1909–2000), student of Dietrich Bonhoeffer *

Wilhelm Beuttel Friedrich Wilhelm Beuttel (10 August 1900 – 27 July 1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism. Beuttel, a tailor, was born into a metal workers' family in Karlsruhe but grew up in Friedberg. He joined the Independent S ...

(1901–1944),

* (1890–1945), Wehrmacht, Operation Radetzky * Dagobert Biermann (1904–1943), KPD *

Charlotte Bischoff Charlotte Bischoff (; 5 October 1901 – 4 November 1994) was a German Communist and German resistance to Nazism, Resistance fighter against National Socialism. Biography Early years Charlotte Wielepp was born in Berlin. Her father was Alfre ...

(1901–1994), KPD, Red Orchestra * Peter Blachstein (1911–1977),

, SJVD, Neuer Weg Group * (1901–1943), KPD *

Willi Bleicher Willi Bleicher (; 27 October 1907 – 23 June 1981) was one of the best known and, according to at least one source, one of the most important and effective German trades union leaders of the post-war decades. In 1965 Yad Vashem recognized Will ...

(1907–1981), KPD, unionist * (1900–1965), Socialist Front * (1906–1941),

, SJVD * (1906–1942), KPD *

Gustav Böhrnsen Gustav Böhrnsen (24 January 1914 – 21 June 1998) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served as chairman of the SPD group in the Parliament of Bremen (the ''Bürgerschaft'') from 1 ...

(1914-1998) SPD, unionist *

Hermann Böse Hermann Böse (May 4, 1870, Hemelingen – July 17, 1943, Bremen) was a German music teacher and conductor at the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium, which was named after him, as well as a communist activist. He was also conductor of the ultra left ...

(1870–1943), Communist resistance *

Walter Bohne Walter Bohne (9 January 1903 – 5 January 1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism. Biography Bohne was born in Burg bei Magdeburg. A shipbuilder by profession, he joined the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD) in 19 ...

(1903–1944), Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group * (1904–1943),

Eugen Bolz Eugen Anton Bolz (15 December 1881 – 23 January 1945) was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime. Life Born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Bolz was his parents' twelfth child. His father Joseph Bolz was a salesman ...

(1881–1945), Zentrumspartei * Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Confessing Church *

Klaus Bonhoeffer Klaus Bonhoeffer (5 January 1901 – 23 April 1945) was a German jurist and German resistance to Nazism, resistance fighter against the Nazism, Nazi régime who was executed after the 20 July Plot, July 1944 plot to kill Hitler. Early life Klaus ...

(1901–1945), Confessing Church *

Erwin Bowien Erwin Johannes Bowien (3 September 1899 – 3 December 1972) was a German painter and author. Biography Bowien was a born in to a family of a construction engineer from East Prussia. His mother also came from there and was descended from a fami ...

(1899-1972), Painter and author * (1897–1968), KPD Erwin Bowien Selbstbildnis 1920

* Willy Brandt (1913–1992),

Otto Brass Otto Brass (21 December 1875 – 13 November 1950) was a German people, German communist politician and anti-fascist activist. Born in Wermelskirchen in the Rhine Province, Brass became a file maker. In 1903, he became an administrator of the ...

(1875–1950),

Deutsche Volksfront Deutsch or Deutsche may refer to: *''Deutsch'' or ''(das) Deutsche'': the German language, in Germany and other places *''Deutsche'': Germans, as a weak masculine, feminine or plural demonym *Deutsch (word), originally referring to the Germanic ve ...

* Willi Bredel (1901–1964), KPD *

Rudolf Breitscheid Rudolf Breitscheid (2 November 1874 – 28 August 1944) was a German politician and leading member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. Once leader of the liberal Democratic Union, he joined the SPD in ...

(1874–1944), SPD *

Otto Brenner Otto Brenner (8 November 1907 – 15 April 1972) was a German trades unionist and politician. Between 1956 and 1972 he was the leader of the powerful IG Metall ''(Industrial Union of Metalworkers)''. In a tribute published in 1967 to celebrate ...

(1907–1972),

* (d. 1944), KPD * Hermann Brill (1895–1959),

, Buchenwald Popular Front Committee * (1886–1944), SPD *

Paul Bromme Paul Bromme (24 December 1906 – 2 February 1975) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only fe ...

(1906–1975), Sopade, RSD * Arnolt Bronnen (1895–1959), Willy Fred * (1893–1944), KPD, Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group * (1889–1944), KPD, Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group *

Eberhard Brünen Eberhard Brünen (8 August 1906 – 30 October 1980) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only fede ...

(1906–1980),

* (1889–1964), Heimwehr *

Werner Bruschke Werner Bruschke (18 August 1898, Magdeburg, Province of Saxony – 17 February 1995, Halle (Saale)) was an East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt ( GDR) from 13 A ...

(1898–1995), SPD * "Appel" (1912–1978), KPD * (1889–1940), KPO * (1908–1980),

* (1890–1938),

* (1901–1934) KPD * (1905-1945) SPD * Ernst Busch (actor) (1900–1980), actor, KPD * Wilhelm Busch (pastor) (1897–1966), Confessing Church

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Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1979-013-43, Wilhelm Canaris

* (1916–1945), * Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), *

Emil Carlebach Emil Carlebach (10 July 1914, Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau - 9 April 2001) was a Hessian Landtag member, a writer, and a journalist. He was born and died in Frankfurt am Main. Life Emil Carlebach was descended from a family of rabbis who had practiced ...

(1914–2001), KPD * (1909–1988), KPD * (1893–1935),

* (1898–1945), Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group * (d. 1942), KPD * (1894–1945), KPD * (1876–1945), SPD

D

Jakob Dautzenberg Jakob Dautzenberg (born 2 February 1897, in Würselen (today part of the district of Aachen); died 20 August 1979 in Aachen) was a German politician, member of the Communist Party of Germany, and resistance fighter against the Nazis. He was a me ...

(1897–1979), KPD *

Alfred Delp Alfred Delp (, 15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistan ...

(1907–1945), Catholic church * (1907–2000),

* (1892–1973), SPD * Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), actress and singer * (1908–1992),

Willi Dickhut Willi Dickhut (29 April 1904 – 8 May 1992) was a German communist and cofounder of the Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany (''Marxistisch–Leninistische Partei Deutschlands''). Life Willi Dickhut was born in Schalksmühle, the son of a haulag ...

(1904–1992), KPD * (1904–1993), SPD * Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945), Confessing Church * Leo Drabent (1899–1944), Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group * Fritz Dressel (1896–1933), KPD * (1896–1976), Ernst Niekisch resistance movement

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Fritz Eberhard Fritz Eberhard (2 October 1896 – 30 March 1982) was a German journalist, anti-fascist and social democrat and fought in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was a member of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). After the war, ...

(1896–1982), ISK * Erwin Eckert (1893–1972), BRSD, KPD * Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin *

Hans Ehrenberg Hans Philipp Ehrenberg (; 4 June 1883 – 21 March 1958) was a German Jewish philosopher and theologian. One of the co-founders of the Confessing Church, he was forced to emigrate to England because of his Jewish ancestry and his opposition to ...

(1883–1958), Lutheran theologian, a founder of the Confessing Church *

Willi Eichler Willi Eichler (7 January 1896 – 17 October 1971) was a German journalist and politician with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Before 1945 Eichler was born in Berlin, the son of a postal worker. He attended Volksschule and then beca ...

(1896–1971), ISK * Ernst Hampel (1919–1945), communist * Elvira Eisenschneider (1924–1944), NKFD * (1901–1944), KPD *

Georg Elser Johann Georg Elser (; 4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in ...

(1903–1945), acted alone * (1907–1942), KPD * August Enderle (1887–1959),

* (1893–1944), KPD * (1895–1945), KPD *

Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner (23 July 1905 – 21 April 2013) was an Austrian conscientious objector, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a concentration camp survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experiences. He was the subject of the ...

(1905–2013), Jehovah's Witness *

Fritz Erler Fritz Erler (15 December 1868 – 11 December 1940) was a German painter, graphic designer and scenic designer. Although most talented as an interior designer, he is perhaps best remembered for several propaganda posters he produced during W ...

(1913–1967),

Anna Essinger Anna Essinger (15 September 1879 – 30 May 1960) was a German Jewish educator. At the age of 20, she went to finish her education in the United States, where she encountered Quakers and was greatly influenced by their attitudes, adopting them fo ...

(1879–1960),

Landschulheim Herrlingen The Bunce Court School was an independent, private school, private boarding school in the village of Otterden, in County of Kent, Kent, England. It was founded in 1933 by Anna Essinger, who had previously founded a boarding school, Landschulheim ...

* Erika Etter (d. 1945), KJVD * Walter Eucken (1891-1950), economist

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* Dora Fabian (1901–1935)

* Walter Fabian (1902–1995)

Marianne Feldhammer Marianne "Mariandl" Feldhammer (born Marianne Kalss: 14 March 1909 – 15 June 1996) was an Austrian resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was one of the most important women in the (overwhelmingly male) "Willy-Fred" group around S ...

(1909–1996), * (1913–1945) KPD * Hermann Fischer (1912–1984),

and Brümmer Kleine resistance group *

Mildred Fish-Harnack Mildred Elizabeth Harnack ( Fish; September 16, 1902 – February 16, 1943) was an American literary historian, translator, and member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime. After marrying Arvid Harnack, she moved to Germany in 1929, ...

(1902-1943), Red Orchestra *

Herbert Frahm Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...

see Willy Brandt * Egon Franke (politician) (1913–1995), SPD *

David Frankfurter David Frankfurter (9 July 1909 – 19 July 1982) was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Wilhelm Gustloff, the Swiss branch leader of the Nazi Party, in February 1936 in Davos, Switzerland. He surrendered and confessed, and was sentenced to ...

(1909–1982), acted alone * (1909–1943),

Georg Fritze Georg Fritze (1 August 1874 – 3 January 1939) was a German theologian, Protestant pastor, religious socialist and anti-fascist. Career Fritze studied Evangelical Theology in Halle (Saale) and Marburg. He sat his first theological exam in th ...

(1874–1939), BRSD *

August Froehlich August Froehlich (26 January 1891 – 22 June 1942) was an Upper Silesian Roman Catholic priest. In his pastoral activity he opposed National Socialism. He campaigned in the name of German Catholics and of Polish forced labourers. He died in Dach ...

(1891–1942), Catholic church * Paul Frölich (1884–1953),

* Emil Fuchs (1874–1971), BRSD * (1894–1933), KPD *

Max Fürst Max Fürst (June 2, 1905 – June 21, 1978) was a German author. He wrote about his boyhood in Königsberg and his friendship with Hans Litten Hans Achim Litten (19 June 1903 – 5 February 1938) was a German lawyer who represented opponents of ...

(1905–1978), author * (1894–1965), SPD

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* Johann Gahr (1880–1939), acted alone *

Albrecht Gaiswinkler Albrecht Gaiswinkler (29 October 1905 – 11 May 1979) was an Austrian civil servant, social democrat (SPÖ) politician and resistance fighter, who, some believe, saved a copy of the ''Mona Lisa'' from destruction in an Austrian salt mine t ...

(1905–1979), Special Operations Executive spy *

Clemens August Graf von Galen Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as ''Clemens August Graf von Galen'', was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Churc ...

(1878–1946), Catholic church *

Willi Gall Willi Gall (3 October 1908 – 25 July 1941) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism. Biography Gall was born in Falkenstein, Saxony. He worked as a lathe operator and a truck driver, and joined the Communist Party of German ...

(1908–1941), KPD *

Jakob Gapp Jakob Gapp (26 July 1897 – 13 August 1943) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Marianists. Gapp first served as a soldier on the Italian front during World War I at a point in his life where his religious convi ...

(1897–1943), Catholic church * Martin Gauger (1905–1941), Confessing Church, Kreisau Circle * Lisa Gavric (1907–1974),

Herta Geffke Herta Geffke (married name, Herta Kaasch: 19 August 1893 – 29 December 1974) was a German activist and politician ( KPD, SED) who resisted Nazism. After 1945 she became a member of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED ( / ZPKK) in th ...

(1893–1973),

* (1905–2002), ISK,

* (1896–1933), KPD * Fritz Gerlich (1883–1934), journalist * Kurt Gerstein (1905–1945), Waffen-SS,

Gerstein Report The Gerstein Report was written in 1945 by Kurt Gerstein, ''Obersturmführer'' of the ''Waffen-SS'', who served as Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS in World War II and in that capacity supplied the hydrogen cyanide-based pesticide ...

author * Eugen Gerstenmaier (1906–1986), Confessing Church *

Johann Geusendam Johann Geusendam (24 February 1886 – 6 April 1945) was a Dutchman who moved with his fiancée to Bremen in 1905 in order to improve his job. Bremen was a geographically small but industrially, commercially and economically dynamic "autonomou ...

(1866–1945),

* (1916–2001), KPD * Peter Gingold (1916–2006), KPD * (1905–2002), Willy-Fred * Helene Glatzer (1902–1935), KPD * (1905–1973), SPD * (1892–1944), KPD * (1895–1964) SPD *

Albert Goldenstedt Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert C ...

(1912-1994), KPD, Rote Hilfe * Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884-1945), DVNP,

Mayor of Leipzig This is a list of mayors of Leipzig since 1778. Since 1877, their title is ''Oberbürgermeister'', rather than ''Bürgermeister''. *1778–1801: Carl Wilhelm Müller *1794–1813?: Christian Gottfried Hermann *1814–1830: Ludwig Ferdinand Weber ...

* (1895–1933), KPD * (1908–1976), KPD *

Kurt Julius Goldstein Kurt Julius Goldstein (3 November 1914 – 24 September 2007) was a German journalist and a former broadcast director. Biography Goldstein was born to a Jewish merchant family in Dortmund, Germany. At school, he experienced Germany's gr ...

(1914–2007), KPD *

Albert Göring Albert Günther Göring (9 March 1895 – 20 December 1966) was a German engineer, businessman, and the younger brother of Hermann Göring (the head of the German ''Luftwaffe'' and a leading member of the Nazi Party). In contrast to his broth ...

(1895–1966), businessman and younger brother of Nazi leader Hermann * (1897–1949),

AfA-Bund The General Federation of Free Employees (german: Allgemeiner freier Angestelltenbund, AfA-Bund) was an amalgamation of various socialist-oriented trade unions of technical and administrative employees in the Weimar Republic. Member organizations ...

Covenant of Religious Socialists of Germany The Covenant of Religious Socialists of Germany (''Bund der Religiösen Sozialistinnen und Sozialisten Deutschlands'', BRSD) is an organization of German Protestants who are working for a socialist society. It was founded in 1926 and was banned du ...

* Herta Gotthelf (1902–1963), SPD *

Hugo Gräf Hugo Gräf (10 October 1892 in Rehestädt – 23 October 1958 in Gotha) was a German Communist politician. Life Early years Hugo Gräf was born in a small village some 20 km (12 miles) south of Erfurt in the southern part of what was th ...

(1892–1958),

* Willi Graf (1918–1943), White Rose * (1921–2008), Special Operations Executive spy * (1907–1990),

* Karl Grönsfelder (1882–1964), KPD * (1896–1944), SPD *

Anneliese Groscurth Dr. Anneliese Groscurth (; 1910–1996) was the wife of Georg Groscurth and a member of the European Union (resistance group), European Union (''Europäische Union''), an antifascist German resistance to Nazism, German resistance group in Berlin, ...

(1910–1996), European Union (resistance group) *

Georg Groscurth Georg Groscurth (; December 27, 1904 – May 8, 1944), was a German medical doctor and member of the resistance to Nazism in the time of the Third Reich. Life Georg Groscurth was born a farmer's son in the village of Unterhaun in the Province ...

(1904–1944), European Union (resistance group) * Helmuth Groscurth (1898-1943) Wehrmacht and ''

Abwehr The ''Abwehr'' (German for ''resistance'' or ''defence'', but the word usually means ''counterintelligence'' in a military context; ) was the German military-intelligence service for the ''Reichswehr'' and the ''Wehrmacht'' from 1920 to 1944. A ...

'' officer * (1905–1942), KPD * Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), SPD * (1912–1945), KPD, London "Free Germans" of the OSS (precursor to the CIA) * (1921–1942), Rote Pfadfinder *

Gustav Gundelach Gustav Gundelach (19 December 1888 – 8 July 1962) was a German politician of the Communist Party (KPD) and former member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal re ...

(1888–1962), KPD * (1925–1944), KPD

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Gedenktafel Amsterdamer Str 10 (Wedd) Elise und Otto Hampel

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0518-182, Erich Honecker

Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F014934-0005, Alois Hundhammer

Georg Häfner Joseph Georg Simon Häfner (19 October 1900, Würzburg – 20 August 1942, Dachau Concentration Camp) was a German Roman Catholic priest and martyr from the Diocese of Würzburg. On 15 May 2011 he was beatified in Würzburg Cathedral. Life Georg ...

(1900–1942), Catholic church * Kurt Hälker (1922–2010),

* (1903–1987), KPD *

Elise Hampel Otto and Elise Hampel were a working class German couple who created a simple method of protest against Nazism in Berlin during the middle years of World War II. They wrote postcards denouncing Hitler's government and left them in public pla ...

(1903–1943), acted alone with husband Otto * Ernst Hampel (1919–1945), part of the Etter-Rose-Hampel group *

Otto Hampel Otto and Elise Hampel were a working class German couple who created a simple method of protest against Nazism in Berlin during the middle years of World War II. They wrote postcards denouncing Hitler's government and left them in public pla ...

, (1897–1943), acted alone with wife Elise *

Arvid Harnack Arvid Harnack (; 24 May 1901 in Darmstadt – 22 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German jurist, Marxist economist, Communist, and German resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Harnack came from an intellectual family and was originally a humanist. He ...

(1901–1942), Rote Kapelle ( Red Orchestra) *

Werner Hansen Werner Hansen (31 July 1905 – 15 June 1971) was a German Social democratic politician and trades unionist.: After 1933 he stayed in Germany for several years undertaking illegal resistance work, and emigrating only in 1937. He was able to ...

(1905–1972), ISK * (1892–1944), KPD *

Ulrich von Hassell Christian August Ulrich von Hassell (12 November 1881 – 8 September 1944) was a German diplomat during World War II. A member of the German Resistance against German dictator Adolf Hitler, Hassell unsuccessfully proposed to the British ...

(1881-1944),

20 July plot On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland. The ...

* Elli Hatschek (1901–1944) European Union (resistance group) * Paul Hatschek (1888–1944) European Union (resistance group) * Theodor Haubach (1896–1945), SPD * (1912–1951),

* (1900–1973), KPO * (1881–1952),

* (1899–1967), *

Rudolf-Ernst Heiland Rudolf-Ernst Heiland (September 8, 1910 – May 6, 1965) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag. In the public, he was known as Rudi Heiland. Life Heiland was a member of the ...

(1910–1965), IKD *

Ernst Heilmann Ernst Heilmann (13 April 1881 – 3 April 1940) was a German jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Born in Berlin, then in Prussia, Heilmann attended the University of Berlin and majored in legal studies, law and poli ...

(1881–1940), SPD * (1890–1946), SPD, Reichsbanner * (1910–1944), KPD, Robert Uhrig Group * (1903–1942), Catholic church * (1910–1942), IKD *

Georg Henke Georg Henke (9 April 1908 – 8 December 1986) was a German Communist who involved himself in political resistance during the Nazi years, and spent most of the Second World War exiled in Sweden. He also worked as a journalist. After the wa ...

(1908–1986), KPD *

Albert Hensel Albert Hensel (March 20, 1895 – June 5, 1942) was a German Communist executed under the Nazis. He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany and along with numerous other resistance fighters was executed by the Nazis. Hensel was born in Dre ...

(1895–1942), KPD * Liselotte Herrmann (1909–1938), KPD * (1903–1943) * (b. 1906),

* Heinz Heydrich (1905–1944), younger brother of Reinhard Heydrich ("The Butcher of Prague") *

Friedrich Hielscher Friedrich Hielscher (31 May 19026 March 1990) was a German intellectual involved in the Conservative Revolutionary movement during the Weimar Republic and in the German resistance during the Nazi era. He was the founder of an esoteric or Neopagan ...

(1902–1990),

Konservative Revolution The Conservative Revolution (german: Konservative Revolution), also known as the German neoconservative movement or new nationalism, was a German national-conservative movement prominent during the Weimar Republic, in the years 1918–1933 (bet ...

* Rainer Hildebrandt (1914–2004), Haushofer-Kreis *

Else Himmelheber Else Himmelheber (30 January 1905 – 30 November 1944) was a German resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was executed (shot) at the Dachau concentration camp on 30 November 1944. Life She came from a working-class family. She was born ...

(1905–1944), resistance group in

Schlotterbeck aus Luginsland Schlotterbeck is a German language habitational surname. Notable people with the name include: * Andreas Schlotterbeck (1982), German water polo player * Anna Schlotterbeck (1902–1972), German political activist and writer * Friedrich Schlotter ...

* (1900–1990), Trotzkyist *

Else Hirsch Else Hirsch (29 July 1889 – 1942 or 1943) was a Jewish teacher in Bochum, Germany, and a member of the German Resistance against the Third Reich. She organized transports of Jewish children to the Netherlands and England, saving them from N ...

(1889–1942 or 1943), schoolteacher, organized 10 children's transports out of Germany * (1889–1937), SPD *

Walter Hochmuth Walter Hochmuth (born 14 February 1904 in Reichenbach im Vogtland, died 28 December 1979 in Berlin) was a German politician in the Weimar Republic (KPD), resistance fighter during the Nazi regime and a diplomat of East Germany. From childhood to ...

(1904–1979), KPD * (1880–1945), SPD * (1902–1945),

* Erich Honecker (1912–1994), KPD * (d. 1944), KPD *

Wilm Hosenfeld Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld (; 2 May 1895 – 13 August 1952), originally a school teacher, was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War had risen to the rank of ''Hauptmann'' (Captain). He helped to hide or rescue several Poli ...

(1895-1952), Nazi Captain who hid and rescued many Polish people, including

Władysław Szpilman Władysław Szpilman (; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film '' The Pianist'', which was based on Szpilman ...

Kurt Huber Kurt Huber (24 October 1893 – 13 July 1943) was a university professor and resistance fighter with the anti-Nazi group White Rose. For his involvement he was imprisoned and guillotined. Early life Huber was born in Chur, Switzerland, to Germ ...

(1893–1943), White Rose * Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942), Hamburg

Vierergruppe (German Resistance) A ''Vierergruppe'' ("group of four") was a small German resistance group that fought the National Socialists. There were three "groups of four" working simultaneously and independently of each other in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. Each of the gr ...

* (1921–2002) *

Alois Hundhammer Alois Hundhammer (25 February 1900, Forstinning, Moos – 1 August 1974, Munich) was one of the most prominent politicians in Bavaria after World War II. Early life Alois Hundhammer, the first of thirteen children, was born to Alois and Maria (Gr ...

(1900–1974), at the time, the youngest member of the Bavarian Landtag * Peter Hüppeler (1913–1944),

I

Karl Ibach Karl Ibach (April 3, 1915 – May 3, 1990) was a German member of the resistance against the Third Reich and later, a writer and politician. Biographical details Ibach was born in Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal, Germany. At the age of 16, h ...

(1915–1990), KPD * (1906–1988),

* (1904–1983), SPD, party chairman of Sopade, Belgium

J

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L0319-0010, Neubrandenburg, Jugendweihe, Hans Jendretzky

* Franz Jacob (1906–1944), KPD, Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group,

* Katharina Jacob (1907–1989), KPD, Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group * (1885–1935), elected legislator from Prussia SPD *

Rudolf Jacobs Heinrich Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946) was a German architect who was active in Bremen. Although much of his work was destroyed in the war, the facade of the post office building next to the station still stands. He is also remembered for his work on ...

(1914–1944), (in Italy, naval officer, partisan in Italy with "Ugo Muccini" Garibaldi brigade) *

Hildegard Jadamowitz Hildegard Jadamowitz (February 12, 1916, Berlin – August 18, 1942, Plötzensee Prison), was a German communist activist and a member of the German resistance against National Socialism. She joined the League of Young Communist League of Germany ...

(1916–1942), KPD, Herbert Baum Group *

Franz Jägerstätter Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S. (also spelled Jaegerstaetter in English; born Franz Huber, 20 May 1907 – 9 August 1943) was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusa ...

(1907–1943), Austrian

conscientious objector A conscientious objector (often shortened to conchie) is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. The term has also been extended to object ...

* Frieda (Friedel) and Rudolf Jahn (d. 1951),

* Hans Jahn (1885–1960),

* (1897–1964), Confessing Church * Hans Jendretzky (1897–1992), KPD *

Marianne Joachim Marianne Joachim (born Marianna/Marianne Prager: 5 November 1921 - 4 March 1943) was a Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was executed at Plötzensee on 4 March 1943 following an arson attack the previous summer on th ...

(1921–1943), Herbert Baum Group * (1900–1999), KPD * (1908–1944), KPD *

Franz Jung Franz Josef Johannes Konrad Jung (26 November 1888, Neisse, Upper Silesia – 21 January 1963, Stuttgart) was a writer, economist and political activist in Germany. He also wrote under the names Franz Larsz and Frank Ryberg. He grew up in Neisse ...

(1888–1963),

KAPD The Communist Workers' Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands; KAPD) was an anti-parliamentarian and left communist party that was active in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. It was founded in April 1 ...

and

Rote Kämpfer Rote can refer to: People *Jason Butler Rote, American TV writer * Kyle Rote (1928–2002), American football player and father of: *Kyle Rote, Jr. (born 1950), American soccer player *Ryan Rote Ryan A. Rote (born in West Palm Beach, Florida) is ...

* (1903–1945), KPD * (1902–1975), IKD

K

Otto Kahn-Freund Sir Otto Kahn-Freund QC (17 November 1900 – 16 August 1979) was a scholar of labour law and comparative law. He was a professor at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. Biography Kahn-Freund was born in Frankfurt am M ...

(1900–1979) Jurist * Jakob Kaiser (1888–1961) Zentrumspartei * (1913–2006), ISK *

Heinz Kapelle Heinz Kapelle (17 September 1913 in Berlin – 1 July 1941 in Berlin) was a leader of the Young Communist League of Germany (''Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands;'' KJVD) in Berlin in the 1930s. By training he was a book printer, having l ...

(1913–1941), KPD * (1907–1967), ISK and Independent Socialist Union *

Friedrich Kellner August Friedrich Kellner (1 February 1885 – 4 November 1970) was a German mid-level official and diarist who worked as a justice inspector in Laubach from 1933 to 1945. Kellner was an infantryman in a Hessian regiment during the First Worl ...

(1885–1970), SPD * Kilian Kirchhoff (1892–1944), Catholic church * Johanna Kirchner (1884–1944), SPD,

Ernst Kirchweger Ernst Kirchweger (January 12, 1898 – April 2, 1965 in Vienna) was the first person to die as a result of political conflict in Austria's Second Austrian Republic, Second Republic. From 1916 to 1918, Ernst Kirchweger participated in World War I a ...

(1898–1965),

KPÖ The Communist Party of Austria (german: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ) is a communist party in Austria. Established in 1918 as the Communist Party of German-Austria (KPDÖ), it is one of the world's oldest communist parties. The KPÖ ...

Heinz Kiwitz Heinz Kiwitz (September 4, 1910 – 1938) was a German artist. His woodcuts were in the German Expressionism, German Expressionist style. An anti-fascist, he was arrested following the Nazis' seizure of power. He survived imprisonment in Kemna con ...

(1910–1938), ASSO *

Michael Kitzelmann Michael Kitzelmann (born 29 January 1916 in Horben, part of Gestratz, Westallgäu, Bavaria; died 11 June 1942 in Orel Prison) was a lieutenant in the German Army during World War II, who was executed for undermining military strength. Life Asp ...

(1916-1942), Lieutenant in the Wehrmacht * Erich Klausener (1885–1934), Zentrumspartei, Catholic church * (1883–1944), KPD *

Walter Klingenbeck Walter Klingenbeck (30 March 1924, in Munich – 5 August 1943, in Munich- Stadelheim) was a German resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich. He came from a Catholic family, and was a member of the St. Ludwig Catholic Youth Troop until ...

(1924–1943), Munich

* (1891–1944),

Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold The (, ''"Black, Red, ndGold Banner of the Reich"'') was an organization in Germany during the Weimar Republic, formed by members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the German Centre Party, and the (liberal) German Democratic Par ...

and Protestant teenagers' group * Rudolf Klug (d. 1944), KPD *

Wilhelm Knöchel Wilhelm Knöchel (; 8 November 1899 – 24 July 1944) was a German Communist Party activist and organizer who after 1933 became an anti-government resistance activist. His trial lasted ten minutes. He was executed/murdered at the Brandenbur ...

(1899–1944), KPD * (1906–1971), SPD,

* (1893–1944), KPD * (1924–2016),

Hans Koch Hans Koch (16 August 1893 – 24 April 1945) was a German lawyer, a member of the Confessional Church and a member of the German resistance against Nazism. Koch was born in Bartenstein, East Prussia (modern Bartoszyce, Poland), he graduated ...

(1893–1945), Jurist, Confessing Church *

Werner Koch (pastor) Werner Koch (26 December 1910 – 31 July 1994) was a German pastor, evangelical-reformist theologian and journalist. Through his early involvement with the Confessing Church (''"Bekennende Kirche"'') he came to wider prominence as an opponen ...

(1910-1994), Pastor, Confessing Church, brother of

* (1909–2002), ISK *

Bernard Koenen Bernard Johann Heinrich Koenen (17 February 1889 – 30 April 1964) was a German politician. Between 1953 and 1958 he was the East German ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Life Early years Koenen was born in Hamburg, the son of a carpenter-joine ...

(1889–1964),

and

* (1915–1988),

Olga Körner Olga Körner (born Olga Schubert: 3 June 1887 – 22 December 1969) was a German political activist and a co-founder of the proletarian women's movement in Dresden. Between 1930 and 1933 she sat as a member of the national parliament (''"Reich ...

(1887–1969), KPD * Fritz Kolbe (1900–1971), acted alone * (1889–1964),

* (1901–1943), KPD *

Walter Kraemer Walter Kraemer (Krämer) (; 21 June 1892 – 6 November 1941) was a German politician of the German Communist Party (KPD) and member of the resistance against Nazism. From 1932/33, he was a deputy of the Prussian Landtag, was arrested in 1933 and ...

(1892–1941), KPD * (1916-1944), Austrian Catholic, supported French Resistance (acting alone) *

Heinrich Kratina The Ehrenfeld Group (german: Ehrenfelder Gruppe, ; sometimes called the Steinbrück Group, german: Steinbrück-Gruppe, ) was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944. The group, which consisted of over one hundred pe ...

(1906–1944),

Wilhelm Kratz The Ehrenfeld Group (german: Ehrenfelder Gruppe, ; sometimes called the Steinbrück Group, german: Steinbrück-Gruppe, ) was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944. The group, which consisted of over one hundred pe ...

(1902–1944),

* (1887–1950) * Johann Krausen (1887–1944),

Willi Kreikemeyer Willi Kreikemeyer (1894 – c. 1950) was a German labourer and a Communist. From 1941 he and his wife Marthe Kreikemeyer were close assistants of Noel Field who supported German anti-Nazi refugees in France and Switzerland. He died in East German de ...

(1894–1950), KPD * (1917–2004),

* Lothar Kreyssig (1898–1986), Jurist (only judge to intervene in Aktion T4 euthanasia operation), Confessing Church * (1907–1937), KPD *

Maria Krüger Maria Krüger (1904–1999) was a Polish children's literature writer and journalist. Krüger participated in the Warsaw Uprising. Several of her children's books received radio and television adaptations, and have been required reading in Polish s ...

(1907–1987),

Alfred Kubel Alfred Kubel (25 May 1909 in Braunschweig – 22 May 1999 in Bad Pyrmont) was a German politician; in his later career, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1928, after attending Middle School, Kubel became an indu ...

(1909–1999), ISK *

Adam Kuckhoff Adam Kuckhoff (, 30 August 1887 – 5 August 1943) was a German writer, journalist, and German resistance to Nazism, German resistance member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (espionage), Red Orchestra ...

(1887–1943), Red Orchestra *

Greta Kuckhoff Margaretha "Greta" Kuckhoff ( Lorke; 14 December 1902 – 11 November 1981) was a Resistance member in Nazi Germany, who belonged to the illegal Communist Party of Germany and the NKVD spy ring that was dubbed the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. S ...

(1902–1981), Red Orchestra *

Heinz Kühn Heinz Kühn (18 February 1912 – 12 March 1992) was a German Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician and the 5th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia between 8 December 1966 and 20 September 1978. He was born and died in Cologne ...

(1912–1992), SPD *

Otto Kühne Otto Kühne (12 May 1893, in Berlin – 8 December 1955, in Brandenburg an der Havel) was a German communist militant, who led a maquis group of German antifascist fighters in the French region of Lozère in 1943 and 1944 during World War II. A ...

(1893–1955), KPD und

* (1901–1943), KPD * Albert Kuntz (1896–1945), KPD * (1895–1944), KPD * (1887–1942), RSD

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Max Lackmann Max Lackmann (28 February 1910 in Erfurt – 11 January 2000 in Fulda) was a German Lutheran ecumenist. Lackmann studied theology at Bonn and Basel as a pupil of Karl Barth. He wrote against Nazi ideology, and he had to move from Germany to Base ...

(1910–2000), Evangelical Church in Germany * (1909–1944) KPD * Erwin von Lahousen (1897–1955) military resistance * Fritz Lange (1898–1981), Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, KPD, Rotfrontkämpferbund * Paul Langen (1893–1945) *

Käthe Latzke Käthe Latzke (8 May 1899 - 31 March 1945) was a Weimar Germany, German political activist (Communist party of Germany, KPD) who List of Germans who resisted Nazism, resisted Nazism and spent most of her final twelve years in state detention. He ...

(d. 1945), KPD *

Julius Leber Julius Leber (16 November 1891 – 5 January 1945) was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi régime. Early life Leber was born in Biesheim, Alsace, out of wedlock, to Katharina Schubetzer and lat ...

(1891–1945), SPD * (1908–1945), SPD * (1906–1943), IKD * Hans Conrad Leipelt (1921-1945), White Rose *

Josef Lenzel Josef Lenzel (21 April 1890 – 3 July 1942) was a German Roman Catholic priest active in resistance movement against the National Socialism, who died in the Dachau concentration camp where he had been sent as a result of his work with Polish for ...

(1890–1942), Catholic church * Theodor Lessing (1872–1933), acted alone * (1910–1965), KPD * Wilhelm Leuschner (1890–1944), SPD *

Bernhard Lichtenberg Bernhard Lichtenberg (; 3 December 1875 – 5 November 1943) was a German Catholic priest who became known for repeatedly speaking out, after the rise of Adolf Hitler and during the Holocaust, against the persecution and deportation of the Jews ...

(1875–1943), Catholic church *

Hermann Lichtenegger Hermann Lichtenegger (born September 14, 1900 in Knittelfeld, Styria, † March 11, 1984 in Vienna) was an Austrian socialist trade unionist, KPÖ politician, and an Under-Secretary of State for Industry, Commerce, Trade, and Traffic in the post-wa ...

(1900–1984), KPÖ politician * Simone Arnold Liebster (1930), Jehovah's Witness * (1900–1967) *

Max Liedtke Max Liedtke (; 25 December 1894 – 1955) was a German journalist and army officer. He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for his resistance against the "liquidation" of the entire Jewish population (including slave labor) of the ghe ...

(1894–1955) Wehrmacht major. *

Rosa Lindemann Rosa Lindemann (née Liesegang, 21 February 1876 – 13 June 1958) was a German communist and member of the German resistance to Nazism. She was born in Spandau, her family moved to Moabit when she was a child. She married Karl Lindemann in 1895, ...

(1876–1958), KPD, Rote Hilfe in Berlin-Moabit *

Herta Lindner Herta Lindner (3 November 1920 – 29 March 1943) was a member of the German resistance against Nazism in occupied Czechoslovakia. She was born in 1920 into a German-speaking family in Mariaschein, Czechoslovakia (now Bohosudov, Czech Republic ...

(1920–1943), KJVD * (1907–1981), ISK * (1909–1994),

and

Hans Litten Hans Achim Litten (19 June 1903 – 5 February 1938) was a German lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 1929 and 1932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic. During one trial i ...

(1903–1938) * Paul Löbe (1875–1967), SPD * Max Loeper (Executed 1941), mentioned in 2002 book ''Shades of Gray'' by Arthur O. Naujoks Jr. and Michael S. Eldredge, pages 43, 44, 144. * (1896–1977),

* Roland Lorent (1920–1944),

* (1895–1961), SPD * (1898–1984) * (1906–1943 missing), KPD

M

Johann Maier Johann Maier (23 June 1906 in Berghofen, today part of Aham, Lower Bavaria – 24 April 1945 in Regensburg) was from 1939 until his death a preacher at Regensburg Cathedral. On 22 April 1945, Reich Defense Commissioner Ludwig Ruckdeschel took ci ...

(1906–1945) preacher,

Regensburger Dom Regensburg Cathedral (german: Dom St. Peter or Regensburger Dom), also known as St. Peter's Cathedral, is an example of important Gothic architecture within the German state of Bavaria. It is a landmark for the city of Regensburg, Germany, and ...

* Heinrich Maier (1908–1945), theologian * Adolf Maislinger (1903–1985), KPD * Maria von Maltzan (1909–1997),

Maria Restituta Maria Restituta Kafka (1 May 1894 – 30 March 1943) was an Austrian nurse of Czech descent and religious sister of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (Sorores Franciscanae a Caritate Christiana). Executed by the government in Nazi-run A ...

(née Helene Kafka) (1894–1943) Franciscan *

Hilde Meisel Hilde Meisel (31 July 1914 – 17 April 1945) was a Jewish German socialist and journalist who published articles against the Nazi regime in Germany. While in exile in England, she wrote under the pseudonym Hilda Monte, calling for German resis ...

(Hilda Monte) (1914–1945), ISK * (1909–2007), KPD,

August Merges August Ernst Reinhold Merges (3 March 1870 – 6 March 1945) was a German activist, politician and revolutionary. He was a member of various communist and syndicalist organisations; becoming one of the leaders of the German Revolution in Brauns ...

(1870–1945), * (1896–1945), * Max Josef Metzger (1887–1944), Catholic church *

Herbert Michaelis Dr. Herbert Michaelis (3 September 1898 — 14 June 1939) was a German lawyer and Communist, and a member of the German Resistance during the Third Reich. Biography Michaelis was born in Hamburg, the son of a Jewish businessman. He served from ...

(1898–1939), lawyer, KPD, Michaelis Group *

Carlo Mierendorff Carlo Mierendorff (24 March 1897 – 4 December 1943) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. An intellectual activist and regional politician in the People's State of Hesse, he played a major rol ...

(1897–1943), SPD * (1883–1964), KPD,

* Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907–1945), founding member, Kreisau Circle * Mentona Moser (1874–1971),

* Erich Mühsam (1878–1934) * Josef Müller (CSU politician) (1898–1979), Bavarian People's Party, Catholic resistance * Oskar Müller (1896–1970), KPD

N

Harry Naujoks Harry Naujoks (18 September 1901 – 20 October 1983) was a German anti-fascist and communist and survivor of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Biography Naujoks was born in Harburg on the Elbe (today part of Hamburg). He learned the trade of ...

(1901–1983), KPD * Theodor Neubauer (1890–1945), KPD * (1891–1943),

* , SPD * Ernst Niekisch (1889–1967), publisher of ''Widerstand, Magazine for national revolutionary Politics'' * Katja Niederkirchner (1909–1944), KPD * Martin Niemöller (1892–1984), Confessing Church * Karl Nolan (1891–1937),

, KPD, father of Fritz and Anna Pröll (see P), one of the first Augsburg Nazi murder victims in

Dachau concentration camp , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...

* (1892–1953), SPD * (1912–2003)

O

* (1912–2003),

Aktion Rheinland Aktion Rheinland (German for ''Operation Rhineland'') was an operation carried out by the Anti-Nazi resistance group in Düsseldorf led by . The goal was to surrender the city of Düsseldorf to the advancing Americans without any fighting, there ...

* (1890–1982), KPD * Rudolf Opitz (1908–1939), KPD * (1900–1978) * Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) * Hans Oster (1887–1945)

P

* (1892–1935) *

Resi Pesendorfer Resi Pesendorfer (born Theresia Laimer: 21 June 1902 - 31 October 1989) was an Austrian political activist, close during the 1920s to the Social Democrats. With the abolition of democracy during 1933/34 she became a resistance activist oppos ...

(1902–1989) Willy Fred * Toni Pfülf (1877–1933), member of the SPD * (1886–1965), Confessing Church * (1928–2001),

* (1906–1974),

* (1920–1969),

Westerweel Group The Westerweel Group (Dutch language, Dutch: Westerweel Groep) was a small Resistance during World War II, resistance group with non-Jewish and Jewish members that operated during the History of the Netherlands (1939–1945), Nazi occupation of the ...

* (1899–1933), KPD * (d. 1944), SS- Obersturmbannführer with contact with Wilhelm Canaris * Karl Plagge (1897–1957), Wehrmacht officer, acted alone * (1906–1973),

Communist Party Opposition The Communist Party of Germany (Opposition) (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Opposition)), generally abbreviated as KPO or KPD(O), was a communist opposition organisation established at the end of 1928 and maintaining its existence unt ...

* Sepp Plieseis (1913–1966),

, Willy Fred * (d, 1943), KPD *

Harald Poelchau Harald Poelchau (5 October 1903 in Potsdam; 29 April 1972 in West Berlin) was a German prison chaplain, religious socialist and member of the resistance against the Nazis. Poelchau grew up in Silesia. During the early 1920's, he studied Protest ...

(1903–1972), Onkel Emil Group, Confessing Church, BRSD *

Ottilie Pohl Ottilie Pohl (née Levit, 14 November 1867 – 2 December 1943) was a German Jewish socialist politician and activist who participated in the German resistance to Nazism. She was born in Schönwald into a Jewish family. She worked as milliner ...

(1867–1943), USPD, Rote Hilfe in Berlin-Moabit *

Johannes Popitz Johannes Popitz (2 December 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a Prussian finance minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government of Nazi Germany. He was the father of Heinrich Popitz, an important German sociologist. Life ...

(1884–1945), *

Hedwig Porschütz Hedwig Porschütz (; ; 10 June 1900 – 26 March 1977) was active in the German resistance to Nazism. She was recognised posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations for aiding and rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Life Hedwig Völker was ...

(1900–1977), Righteous among the Nations * (1907–1945), KPD * (1900–1971), KPD * Bernard Povel (called Ben Povel) (1897–1952), Catholic textile manufacturer, Zentrumspartei *

Olga Benario-Prestes Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russi ...

(1908–1942), KPD * Konrad von Preysing (1880–1950), Catholic church *

Christoph Probst Christoph Ananda Probst (6 November 1919 – 22 February 1943) was a German student of medicine and member of the White Rose (''Weiße Rose'') German resistance to Nazism, resistance group. Early life Probst was born in Murnau am Staffelsee. ...

(1919–1943), White Rose * Fritz Pröll (1915–1944),

* (1896–1945),

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* (1899–1971), KPD *

Siegfried Rädel Siegfried Engelbert Martin Rädel (7 March 1893 – 10 May 1943) was a German politician, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Biography Rädel was born in Pirna-Copitz, Saxony. At t ...

(1893–1943), KPD * Adolf Reichwein 1898–1944, SPD *

Franz Reinisch Franz Reinisch SAC (February 1, 1903 – August 21, 1942) was an Austrian Catholic priest who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler, for which he was executed. He was a member of the Schoenstatt Movement. Life Early life Franz Reinisc ...

(1903–1942), Catholic church * (1907–1944), Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group * (1910-1958),

* (1898–1944), European Union (resistance group) * Franz Rheinberger (1927–1944),

* Albert Richter (1912-1940), track cyclist * (1911–1970), Catholic church * (1908–1944), Robert Uhrig Group * (1886–1951),

* (1897–1981), DDP Robinsohn-Strassmann Group * (1915–2008),

CVJM YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London, originally ...

* Beppo Römer (1892–1944), KPD *

Erwin Rommel Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German field marshal during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox (, ), he served in the ''Wehrmacht'' (armed forces) of Nazi Germany, as well as servi ...

(1891-1944),Wehrmacht *

Augustin Rösch Augustin Rösch (11 May 1893 – 7 November 1961) was a German Jesuit, Provincial, and significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism. Active in the Kreisau Circle German Resistance group, he was arrested in connection with the 1944 July Plot ...

(1893–1961), Kreisau Circle, Catholic church * (1902–1991), Catholic church * (1901–1988), SPD * (1912–1964), KPD * (1902–1975), SPD

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* Anton Saefkow (1903–1944),

Herbert Sandberg Herbert Sandberg (April 18, 1908 – March 18, 1991) was a German artist and caricaturist. He was best known for his caricatures in the satirical magazine, ''Ulenspiegel'', which he co-founded and art directed. He is also well known for his drawin ...

(1908–1991), KPD, Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists * Willi Sänger (1894–1944), KPD * (ca. 1904–1997),

* Karl Schapper (1879–1941), Catholic *

Werner Scharff Werner Scharff (August 16, 1912 – March 16, 1945) was a German Jewish resistance activist against the Nazi regime. He was executed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp because of his activities in the "Community for Peace and Development" ''(G ...

(1912–1945), *

John Schehr John Schehr (9 February 1896 - 1 February 1934) was a German political activist who became a Communist Party politician and ultimately, chairman (leader) of the party, following the arrest on 3 March 1933 of Ernst Thälmann. By this time the co ...

(1896–1934), KPD * (1899–1945), KPD * Heinrich Scheuken (1902–1944), acted alone * (1898–1980), SPD * (1911–1944), KPD * Emilie Schindler (1907–2001), acted alone * Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), acted alone * Bartholomäus (Barthel) Schink (1927–1944),

Friedrich Schlotterbeck Albert Friedrich Schlotterbeck (January 9, 1909 – April 7, 1979) was a German author who wrote prose fiction, plays, and radio plays, and was a local leader of the German Resistance during World War II. Biography Born in Reutlingen in the K ...

(1909–1979), KJD, KPD,

Schlotterbeck Group Schlotterbeck is a German language habitational surname. Notable people with the name include: * Andreas Schlotterbeck (1982), German water polo player * Anna Schlotterbeck (1902–1972), German political activist and writer * Friedrich Schlotterbe ...

* (1901–1976), SPD *

Anton Schmid Anton Schmid (9 January 1900 – 13 April 1942) was an Austrian recruit in the ''Wehrmacht'' who saved Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. A devout but apolitical Roman Catholic and an electrician by profession, Schmid was conscripted int ...

(1900–1942), Wehrmacht * Richard Schmid (1899–1986), counsel,

(affiliated) * Otto Schmirgal (1900–1944), KPD *

Elisabeth Schmitz Elisabeth Schmitz (23 August 1893 – 10 September 1977) was a German Lutheran theologian, teacher, and author of "On the Situation of German Non-Aryans", a memorandum that attempted to persuade those in the Confessing Church to stand against t ...

(1893–1977), theologian, resistance fighter, Confessing Church *

Alexander Schmorell Alexander Schmorell (; russian: Александр Гугович Шморель, translit=Aleksandr Gugovich Shmorel', ; 16 September 1917 – 13 July 1943) was a Russian-German student at Munich University who, with five others, formed a resist ...

(1917–1943), White Rose * Paul Schneider (1897–1939), pastor, Evangelical Church in Germany *

Ernst Schneller Ernst Schneller (8 November 1890 – 11 October 1944) was a German school teacher. In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out. Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas be ...

(1890–1944), KPD * (1899–1976), Sopade,

* (d. 1945) KPD * (1924–42),

* Eugen Schönhaar (1898–1934), KPD * (1889–1933), KPD *

Hans Scholl Hans Fritz Scholl (; 22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943) was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's ...

(1918–1943), White Rose * Sophie Scholl (1921–1943), White Rose *

Roman Karl Scholz Roman Karl Scholz (16 January 1912 – 10 May 1944) was an Austrian author and Augustinian canon regular at Klosterneuburg. He became a resistance activist after attending a Nuremberg Rally in 1936 and was executed fewer than eight years later. ...

(1912–1944), Catholic church *

Felice Schragenheim Felice Rahel Schragenheim (9 March 1922 – 31 December 1944) was a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II. She is known for her tragic love story with Lilly Wust. She was murdered via a death march from Gross-Rosen concentration camp (tod ...

(1922-1942), unknown * (1892–1944),

* Karl Schröder (1884–1950), *

Friedrich-Werner von der Schulenburg Friedrich-Werner Erdmann Matthias Johann Bernhard Erich Graf von der Schulenburg (20 November 1875 – 10 November 1944) was a German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa, the German ...

(1875–1944),

* Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg (1902–1944),

* Eduard Schulte (1891–1966), industrialist, acted alone * (1891–1945), * Josef Schulz (1909?–1941), Wehrmacht (disputed) * (1894–1935), KPD *

Eva Schulze-Knabe Eva Schulze-Knabe (11 May 1907 – 15 July 1976) was a German painter and graphic artist, as well as a resistance fighter against the Third Reich. Biography Born in Pirna, Saxony, Eva Schulze-Knabe studied from 1924 to 1926 in Leipzig and from ...

(1907–1976), KPD *

Elisabeth Schumacher Elisabeth Schumacher (née Hohenemser; 28 April 1904 – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) was a German artist, photographer. and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the Berlin-based anti-fascist resistanc ...

(1904–1942) Red Orchestra *

Kurt Schumacher (sculptor) Kurt Schumacher (6 May 1905 – 22 December 1942) was a German sculptor and Communist member of the German Resistance fighter who was a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. He was ma ...

(1905–1942) Red Orchestra * Georg Schumann (resistance fighter) (1886–1945), KPD * Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000),

Adolf Schütz The Ehrenfeld Group (german: Ehrenfelder Gruppe, ; sometimes called the Steinbrück Group, german: Steinbrück-Gruppe, ) was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944. The group, which consisted of over one hundred pe ...

(1926–1944),

Alexander Schwab Alexander Schwab (5 July 1887 – 12 November 1943) was a German political activist. He withdrew from active participation in politics after resigning from the fractious and short-lived Communist Workers' Party (''"Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei ...

(1887–1943), * Günther Schwarz (1928–1944),

* Rudolf Schwarz (resistance activist) (1904–1934), KPD *

Werner Seelenbinder Werner Seelenbinder (2 August 1904 – 24 October 1944) was a German communist and wrestler. Early years Seelenbinder was born in Stettin, Pomerania (modern-day Poland), and became a wrestler after training as a joiner. He had connections with ...

(1904–1944), KPD *

Willi Seng Willi Seng (11 February 1909 – 27 July 1944) was a German communist activist who became a resistance fighter during the Nazi period. He was captured in 1943 and faced trial in 1944, following which he was convicted and two months later executed. ...

(1909–1944), KPD functionary * Robert Siewert (1887–1973), KPO,

Buchenwald Resistance The Buchenwald Resistance was a resistance group of prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp. It involved Communists, Social Democrats, and people affiliated with other political parties, unaffiliated people, and both Jews and Christians. Be ...

* (1898–1942), KPD * (1894–1955), KPD *

Hanna Solf Johanna Susanne Elisabeth Solf (née Dotti, 14 November 1887 – 4 November 1954) was a member of the German resistance to Nazism and key member of the Solf Circle. Johanna Dotti married Wilhelm Solf in 1908, who was then governor of German Sa ...

(1884–1954),

* Richard Sorge (1895–1944), KPD spy for the Soviet Union * (1911–1944) Confessing Church Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-1944)

Claus von Stauffenberg Colonel Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Despite ...

(1907–1944),

* (1902–1942), KPD *

Wilhelm Stein Wilhelm Stein (May 15, 1895 – June 16, 1944) was a German engineer, a Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe, Jewish resistance fighter, and Holocaust victim. Life Stein was born in modern-day Sankt Goar. Despite only receiving an elementa ...

(d. 1944), KPD * Hans Steinbrück (1921–1944),

* (1917–1942),

Young Communist League of Germany The Young Communist League of Germany (, abbreviated KJVD) was a political youth organization in Germany. History The KJVD was formed in 1920 from the Free Socialist Youth () of the Communist Party of Germany, A prior youth wing had been forme ...

, Herbert Baum Group * (1896–1934), Rote Hilfe * (1900–1933), KPD * (1897–1958), DDP, * Stefan Szende (1901–1985),

* Carl Szokoll (1915–2004), Wehrmacht,

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Elisabeth von Thadden Elisabeth Adelheid Hildegard von Thadden (29 July 1890 – 8 September 1944, executed) was a German progressive educator and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime as a member of the Solf Circle. She was sentenced to death for conspiri ...

(1890–1944),

Bruno Tesch (antifascist) Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch (22 April 1913 – 1 August 1933) was a German communist and member of the Young Communist League of Germany. At age 20, he was convicted of murder and executed in connection with the Altona Bloody Sunday riot (''Altonaer ...

(1913–1933), KPD * Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), KPD *

Fritz Theilen Fritz Theilen (27 September 1927 – 18 April 2012) was a German member of the anti-Nazi resistance group the Edelweißpiraten during World War II. Born to working-class parents, he joined the Deutsches Jungvolk division of the Hitler Youth ...

* Matthias Theisen (1885–1933), KPD, SPD *

Paul Thümmel Paul Thümmel (15 January 1902 – 20 April 1945), aka Agent A-54, was a German double agent who spied for Czechoslovakia during World War II. He was a high-ranking member of the German military intelligence organisation, the '' Abwehr'', and was ...

(1902–1945),

Czech Resistance Resistance to the German occupation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II began after the occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the formation of the protectorate on 15 March 1939. German policy deterred acts of ...

Paul Tillich Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologi ...

(1886–1965), Christian Socialist,

American Friends of German Freedom American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

Council for a Democratic Germany The Council for a Democratic Germany (CDG) was founded on 3 May 1944 in New York City. Its founding was a reaction to the founding of the National Committee for a Free Germany in Moscow in July 1943. Some of the founding members brought experiences ...

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* (1890–1968), unionist resistance (DMV) *

Robert Uhrig Robert Uhrig (; March 8, 1903 – August 21, 1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism. Background Born in Leipzig, the son of a metalworker, Uhrig grew up to become a journeyman toolmaker. He joined the Com ...

(1903–1944), KPD

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Kurt Vieweg Kurt Vieweg (born 29 October 1911 in Göttingen – died 2 December 1976 in Greifswald) was one of the leading agricultural politicians in the early years of the GDR. He was at various times Secretary General of the VdgB (the Peasants Mutual Aid ...

(1911–1976), KPD *

Franz Vogt Franz Vogt (9 October 1899 – 14 May 1940) was a German trade unionist, Social Democrat and member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime. Life Vogt was chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Bochum and secretary of the eco ...

(1899–1940), labour unionist, SPD,

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* Maria Wachter (1910-2010), KPD * (1905–1943), SPD * Heinrich Wagner (1886-1945), KPD, Rote Hilfe * Jacob Walcher (1887–1970),

* (1904–1956), KPD *

Eduard Wald Eduard Wald (10 March 1905 – 5 November 1978) was a Communist politician, trade unionist and member of the German Resistance against Nazism. Biography Eduard Wald, known as Edu, was born in Kiel, Germany, where he attended school. He reached up ...

(1905–1978), Committee for Proletarian Unity *

Orli Wald Orli Reichert-Wald (July 1, 1914 – January 1, 1962) was a member of the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance in Nazi Germany. She was arrested in 1936 and charged with high treason, whereupon she served four and a half years in a women ...

(1914–1962),

, "Angel of Auschwitz" *

Maria von Wedemeyer Maria von Wedemeyer-Weller (23 April 1924 – 16 November 1977) was a German-American computer scientist, who emigrated to the US from Germany after the Second World War. She was known in the field of computer science for her role in developing e ...

(1924–1977), Confessing Church * (1889–1945), from SPD- and

, member of existing resistance group in Zeitz *

Armin T. Wegner Armin Theophil Wegner (October 16, 1886 – May 17, 1978) was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author, and a human rights activist. Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Wegner was a witness to the Armenian geno ...

(1886–1978), author, medic, soldier and human rights activist, acted alone *

Herbert Wehner Herbert Richard Wehner (11 July 1906 – 19 January 1990) was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party, he joined the Social Democrats (SPD) after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations from 1966 ...

(1906–1990), KPD *

Otto Weidt Otto Weidt (2 May 1883 - 22 December 1947) was the owner of a workshop in Berlin for the blind and deaf. During the Holocaust, he fought to protect his Jewish workers against deportation and he has been recognised for his work as one of the Righte ...

(1883–1947), anarchist resistance * (1909–1944),

Friedrich Weißler (Georg) Friedrich Weißler (born 28 April 1891 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia; died 19 February 1937 at Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a German lawyer and judge. He came from a Jewish family but was baptized as Protestant as a child. He b ...

(1891–1937), Confessing Church * (1884–1940), SPD * (1889–1960), Lutheran pastor *

Hans Westermann Hans Westermann (July 17, 1890 – March 16, 1935) was a German Communist, politician and fighter in the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance against the Third Reich. He died in Nazi custody days after being arrested by the Gestapo. ...

(1890–1935), Versöhnler, KPD * (1894–1944), European Union (resistance group) * (1895–1942), SPD * (1888-1958),

Albert Willimsky Albert Willimsky (29 December 1890 – 22 February 1940) was a German Roman Catholic priest active in resistance movement against the National Socialism, martyred in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Biography Willimsky was born on 29 Decem ...

(1890–1940), Catholic church * , White Rose *

Josef Wirmer Josef Wirmer (19 March 1901 – 8 September 1944) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Life Born in Paderborn, Josef Wirmer was from a Catholic family of teachers. His father was a '' Gymnasium'' headmaster. A ...

(1901–1944), Catholic church, * (1896–1944), artist, acted alone * (1902–1944), Catholic church * (1904–1997), Zionist refugee helper in Berlin *

Rosi Wolfstein Alma Rosalie (Rosi) Wolfstein (after 1948, Rosi Frölich: 27 May 1888 – 11 December 1987) was a German socialist politician. After the murder of her friend and mentor, the communist pioneer Rosa Luxemburg, she inherited Luxemburg's copious col ...

(1888–1987),

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* (1919–2005),

Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair ( he, הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, , ''The Young Guard'') is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group ...

, Herbert Baum Group *

Hiltgunt Zassenhaus Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus (10 July 1916 – 20 November 2004) was a German philologist who worked as an interpreter in Hamburg, Germany during World War II, and later as a physician in the United States. She was honoured for her efforts to a ...

(1916–2004), wartime translator and interpreter * Zita Zehner (1900–1978), home economist and radio host * (1910–1981), KPD * German Resistance Memorial Center
Karl Zimmet (includes photo). (1895–1969) Antinazistische Deutsche Volksfront * (1910–1940), KPD

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