Gerhard Wartenberg was born in Tannroda/Thuringia on February 1, 1904, the son of a self-employed sign painter. He joined an anarcho-syndicalist youth group at an early age, and in 1927 he became a member of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), an anarcho-syndicalist trade union. In 1926 he studied chemistry in Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1928. From the fall of 1929 to mid-1930, he worked as a chemist for the French company "Produits photographiques et plastiques," which had a production facility in Pereslavl near Moscow.

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Max Reissner was born on July 8, 1886, in Neustadt near Pinne, the son of Jacob Reissner, a grain merchant, and his wife Helene, née Mottek.

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Herbert Reinert was born in Berlin on February 5, 1906, became a machinist and lived in Tempelhof, Friedrich-Karl-Strasse 5. From 1936, he worked as a technical auditor at Daimler-Benz AG in Marienfelde and belonged to a company resistance group. As a member of the workers' sports club "Fichte," he was an early opponent of National Socialism. On July 16, 1943, he was arrested and sentenced to death along with five other members of the "Kampfbund" in a Kammergericht trial of Daimler-Benz AG employees. The death sentence was carried out on September 22, 1944 in the Plötzensee penitentiary.