Adolf Rembte
German communist and victim of the NS justice
Adolf Rembte (21 July 1902 - 4 November 1937) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.
On 14 June 1937, he was found guilty of "preparing a treasonous enterprise" and was executed by beheading on 4 November 1937 in the courtyard of the Plötzensee prison.
Life
Adolf Rembte was born in Kirchsteinbek (Billstedt), a suburb at the eastern side of the Hamburg conurbation. He learned the bakers' trade as a young man, later undertaking casual labour. He was still only 16 at the start of 1919 when he joined the emerging Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend ("Young Socialist Workers") movement. He joined the recently launched Communist Party in 1922. He was evidently still based in the Hamburg region in 1923 when he took part in the Hamburg Uprising, an intensely violent albeit brief insurrection by locally based communists in October that year. He was taken into custody and held by the authorities for more than a year in "investigatory detention". On 23 March 1925, he was convicted of "participating in high treason" ("Beihilfe zum Hochverrat") and sentenced to a thirty month jail term.
At or before the start of 1926, initially as an unpaid contributor and then as a contributing editor, he began writing for the Hamburger Volkszeitung, a newspaper founded in 1918 which since 1920, had operated as a Communist Party publication.
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