Wilhelm Springer
* 1894

Wilhelm Springer, born on 7 May 1894, arrested on 8 Nov. 1934 and detained in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, murdered on 27 Nov. 1934

Kampstrasse 7 (Kampstrasse 7a)

Wilhelm Springer was a planer. He belonged – as the historian Herbert Diercks writes – “to the SPD [German Social Democratic Party] for a long time, then went over to the KPD [German Communist Party] in 1928. Together with his wife Käthe, he got actively involved in the anti-Fascist resistance. On 8 Nov. 1934, he was arrested by the state police directly from his workplace at the Blohm & Voss shipyard.”

Translator: Erwin Fink
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