page_title: Brandenburg-Görden Prison
section_title: Executed or died at Brandenburg-Görden Prison
hierarchical_section_title: Brandenburg-Görden Prison / Executed or died at Brandenburg-Görden Prison
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context_page_description: Brandenburg-Görden Prison is located on Anton-Saefkow-Allee in the Görden quarter of Brandenburg an der Havel. Erected between 1927 and 1935, it was built to be the most secure and modern prison in Europe. Both criminal and political prisoners were sent there, as well as people imprisoned for preventive detention or for interrogation and prisoners of war. Built with a capacity of 1,800, it sometimes held over 4,000 during the Nazi era.
context_section_description: Bernhard Almstadt, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 6 November 1944
  Walter Arndt, zoologist, executed on 26 June 1944
  Friedrich Aue, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 27 November 1944
  Bernhard Bästlein, Communist and co-founder of Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization, executed on 18 September 1944
  Bruno Binnebesel, Catholic Priest and Resistance fighter, executed on 13 November 1944
  Max Borrack, Resistance fighter, executed on 19 February 1945
  Walter Budeus, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 21 August 1944
  Jean-Marie Derscheid, zoologist, executed on 13 March 1944
  Hermann Danz, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 5 February 1945
  Leo Drabent, Communist and resistance fighter, executed on 20 November 1944
  Friedrich Fromm, Officer of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, executed on 12 March 1945
  Paul Gesche, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 21 August 1944
  Claudius Gosau, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 6 March 1944
  Alois Grimm, Jesuit priest, educator, theologian, hanged on 11 September 1944
  Georg Groscurth, doctor, co-founder of European Union (resistance group), executed on 8 May 1944
  Nikolaus Christoph von Halem, jurist, businessman and Resistance fighter, executed on 9 October 1944
  Ernst Hampel, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 20 April 1945
  Paul Hatschek, Czech engineer and member of the European Union, executed on 15 May 1944
  Michael Hirschberg, SPD Resistance fighter, died from heart attack from injuries after arrest, 20 March 1937
  Martin Rasmussen Hjelmen, Norwegian Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 30 May 1944
  Cäsar Horn, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 19 March 1945
  Franz Jacob, Communist and co-founder of Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization and Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group, executed 1944
  Franz Jägerstätter, Catholic conscientious objector, executed on 9 August 1943
  Erich Knauf, author, executed on 2 May 1944
  Wilhelm Knöchel, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 24 July 1944
  Alfred Kowalke, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 6 March 1944
  Wolfgang Kusserow, Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector, executed on 28 March 1942
  Alois Laub, member of Czechoslovak anti-nazi resistance, executed on 19 February 1945
  Arthur Ladwig, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 10 July 1944
  Georg Lehnig, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 28 March 1945
  Karl Lühr, mayor of Woltersdorf (Wendland, Lower Saxony), executed on 20 December 1943
  Rudolf Mandrella, executed on 3 September 1943
  Albert Merz, Christadelphian conscientious objector, executed on 3 April 1941
  Franz Mett, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 21 August 1944
  Max Josef Metzger, Catholic priest, executed on 17 April 1944
  Joseph Müller, Catholic priest, executed on 11 September 1944
  Kurt Müller, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 26 June 1944
  Theodor Neubauer, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 5 February 1945
  Hans Neumann, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 20 November 1944
  Erwin Nöldner, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 6 November 1944
  Stanislaus Peplinski, Polish forced laborer from Waldsee and member of Speyerer Kameradschaft, executed on 19 March 1945
  Barly Devold Paul Pettersen, Norwegian Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 30 May 1944
  Siegfried Rädel, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 10 May 1943
  Franz Reinisch, Catholic priest, executed on 21 August 1942
  Paul Rentsch, dentist, member of the European Union (resistance group), beheaded on 8 May 1944
  Fritz Riedel, Resistance fighter, executed on 21 August 1944
  Wilhelm Rietze, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 28 August 1944
  Kurt Ritter, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 28 August 1944
  Friedrich Rödel, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on 5 February 1945
  Beppo Römer, Resistance fighter, executed on 25 September 1944
  Axel Rudolph, author of adventure and crime stories, guillotined on 30 October 1944
  Jakob Schultheis, Social Democrat and member of Speyerer Kamerads
caption: Anton Saefkow, executed at Brandenburg-Görden
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