Arthur Sodtke

Arthur Sodtke (25 December 1901 – 14 August 1944) was a German Communist resistance fighter, he was active in Berlin and sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof in 1944.

He was a member of the works council of the Schultheiss brewery and joined the German Communist Party in 1929.

In World War II he joined the resistance group of Heinrich Preuß, Wilhelm Rietze and Robert Uhrig, for whom he contacted antifascists at Borsig, Gottfried Lindner AG and the Schultheiss brewery.

[1] Sodtke was arrested on 4 February 1942 and imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Potsdam prison.

The Volksgerichtshof sentenced him to death on 21 June 1944 along with Wilhelm Böse, Johann Pierschke, Walter Strohmann und Hermann Tops.