18 Facts About Adolf Rembte

Adolf Rembte was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.

Adolf Rembte was born in Kirchsteinbek, a suburb at the eastern side of the Hamburg conurbation.

Adolf Rembte learned the bakers' trade as a young man, later undertaking casual labour.

Adolf Rembte was still only 16 at the start of 1919 when he joined the emerging Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend movement.

Adolf Rembte joined the recently launched Communist Party in 1922.

Adolf Rembte 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.

Adolf Rembte was taken into custody and held by the authorities for more than a year in "investigatory detention".

Adolf Rembte attended classes there between November 1927 and the first part of 1930.

Under the cover name "Rudolf", Adolf Rembte was based in Merseberg as principal advisor to the regional party leadership between June and November 1933.

Towards the end of 1933, a wave of arrests by the security services suggested that the local party branch had been penetrated by police spies, driving Adolf Rembte to leave the Halle region.

Adolf Rembte returned to Berlin, where his arrival coincided with a reconfiguration of the national party leadership.

Adolf Rembte arrived in December 1934 and remained in the Lower Rhine region for approximately five months, using alternately the cover names "Poser" and "Oskar".

Kox's former duties had involved liaison with underground party organisations across a wide swathe of central and southern Germany, and it seems that Adolf Rembte assumed these liaison duties, which carried a high risk of discovery by the authorities.

Adolf Rembte was then transferred, probably to the increasingly infamous Moabit Penitentiary in west-central Berlin, where he was held in investigatory custody for approximately two years.

Adolf Rembte died as an inmate of the Brandenburg-Gorden Prison on 22 October 1943 because of a serious stomach illness in respect of which, according to sympathetic sources, he was not provided with the necessary medical attention.

Adolf Rembte was held in a succession of prisons and labour camps, the last of which was the Waldheim Penitentiary near Chemnitz, to which she was transferred in March 1945.

Adolf Rembte was liberated by Soviet forces in May 1945, which was the month in which war ended.

On 4 November 1937, Adolf Rembte was executed on the guillotine placed for the purpose in the courtyard of the Plotzensee prison.