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Gustav Heidtmann * 1873

Wachtelstraße 48 (Hamburg-Nord, Barmbek-Nord)

KZ Fuhlsbüttel
ermordet 20.08.1936

Gustav Heidtmann, born on 20 Aug. 1873, died on 20 Aug. 1936 in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp

Wachtelstrasse 48

Even in his youth, the Hamburg native Gustav Heidtmann was already politically organized and unionized. First, he was a member of the "Socialist Young Workers” (Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend – SAJ) and then he joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1895 until 1933, Gustav Heidtmann was district leader of the SPD in Wandsbek.

In his full-time job, Heidtmann worked as a toolmaker. With his wife Auguste, née Schmidt, who was one year his senior, he lived in a small apartment at Wachtelstrasse 48. The married couple had no children.

After the Nazis assumed power, Gustav Heidtmann organized the SPD’s resistance in the northern part of Hamburg. For this, he was arrested by the Gestapo at his workplace on 14 Aug. 1936 and detained in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. One week after his arrest, on 20 Aug. 1936, his sixty-third birthday, Gustav Heidtmann died in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp.

Translator: Erwin Fink

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
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Quellen: StaHH 213-9, Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht, OIV 144-7; StaHH 332-5, Personenstandsunterlagen, 9882 und 191/1936; Diercks: Gedenkbuch "KOLA-FU", S. 23; Totenliste Hamburger Widerstandskämpfer und Verfolgter 1933-1945; http://verfolgte.spd-hamburg.de/gedenkbuch/ Gedenkbuch_G-H.pdf Zugriff am 3.11.2008; VVN, H28 Heidtmann, Auguste.