Location
Grüntaler Straße 30
District
Gesundbrunnen
Born
06 October 1891 in Barmen
Occupation
Bäcker
Verhaftet
14 May 1942
in
Berlin
Verhaftet
May 1942 to July 1942
in
Polizeigefängnis am Alexanderplatz
Verhaftet
July 1942 to August 1943
in
Sachsenhausen
Verhaftet
August 1943 to September 1943
in
Polizeigefängnis Moabit
Verhaftet
September 1943 to May 1944
in
Gefängnis Landsberg/Warthe
Verhaftet
May 1944 to August 1944
in
Potsdam
Murdered
14 August 1944 im Zuchthaus Brandenburg-Görden
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Fotografie von Walter Strohmann © GDW
Walter Strohmann was born on 6 October 1891 in Barmen. In the 1930s he lived at Grüntaler Strasse 30 in Berlin-Mitte.
Walter was a member of a resistance group, the Uhrig circle, active in the German armaments and munitions factory in Borsigwalde. The group aimed to sabotage Germany’s arms production by making shell casings unusable at the seventh or eighth stage of manufacturing. In early February 1942, the Gestapo managed to break up the group after somebody informed on them. Roughly one hundred members of the Uhrig circle were arrested, almost eighty of whom died soon afterwards. Of the 48 convicted in the main trial, 33 were condemned to death. 16 prisoners “passed away” during the two-year inquiry. Walter Strohmann was executed on 14 August 1944 in Brandenburg prison, alongside the Wedding residents Willy Sachse, Paul Gesche, Otto Lemm and Otto Schmirgal. Karl Hübner, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, was killed as the Red Army approached Sonnenburg prison.
Walter was a member of a resistance group, the Uhrig circle, active in the German armaments and munitions factory in Borsigwalde. The group aimed to sabotage Germany’s arms production by making shell casings unusable at the seventh or eighth stage of manufacturing. In early February 1942, the Gestapo managed to break up the group after somebody informed on them. Roughly one hundred members of the Uhrig circle were arrested, almost eighty of whom died soon afterwards. Of the 48 convicted in the main trial, 33 were condemned to death. 16 prisoners “passed away” during the two-year inquiry. Walter Strohmann was executed on 14 August 1944 in Brandenburg prison, alongside the Wedding residents Willy Sachse, Paul Gesche, Otto Lemm and Otto Schmirgal. Karl Hübner, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, was killed as the Red Army approached Sonnenburg prison.