Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group

Their declared goals were to mobilize the workers, support the foreign forced laborers and the Soviet prisoners of war and to sabotage the weapons production.

The group consisted of Communist Party members, some Social Democrats, independents and foreign forced laborers.

Through Wilhelm Guddorf, they had contacts outside Hamburg, with the Rote Kapelle in Berlin and Leo Drabent and Hermann Böse in Bremen.

Other key group members were Walter Bohne,[8] Gustav Bruhn,[9] Hans Hornberger, Oskar Reincke,[10] Kurt Schill and Heinz Priess.

During the postwar years, the shop committee of Blohm & Voss had a commemorative plaque made, honoring the 11 murdered shipyard workers, which included eight members of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group.

In 1964, the postal service of the German Democratic Republic released a series of postage stamps on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the execution of Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein.

Typical bomb damage in Hamburg (aerial photo from 1944 or 1945)
Franz Jacob , 1964 stamp from the DDR
Bernhard Bästlein , 1964 stamp from the DDR