Rasch, Karl Wilhelm
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May 5, 2003
Karl Wilhelm Rasch was born on January 3, 1891 in Sprokinnen in the
Karl Wilhelm Rasch was born on January 3, 1891 in Sprokinnen in the
Lichtenberg, Bernhard
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Jun. 7, 2013
Another stumbling block for Bernhard Lichtenberg is located in Mitte at the
Another stumbling block for Bernhard Lichtenberg is located in Mitte at the
Westphal, Max
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Max Westphal was born in Hamburg on September 30, 1895, the son of a dockworker. After attending elementary school, he worked at the Hamburg branch of Benz & Co. AG, first as a messenger and then as a clerk. He was a member of the youth group of the Fortbildungsverein, a socialist youth group that was forbidden to engage in political activity. During World War I he was drafted and lost his left arm in an attack. After a long stay in hospital, he returned to Hamburg and married Alice Düsedau, who was also politically active.
Weiland, Emma
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Emma Spanier was born into a Jewish family in Berlin on July 4, 1890.
Wartenberg, Gerhard
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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.