Bruno Tesch (antifascist)

Born in Kiel, Germany, to an Italian mother, Tesch spent his childhood in Italy before moving to live with his stepfather in Hamburg in 1925, where he was an apprentice plumber.

Finding himself unemployed after his apprenticeship was over, he entered the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD), or Volunteer Work Service.

Politically radical, he joined the Socialist Worker Youth (Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend) in 1930, but soon switched to the Young Communist League of Germany (Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands).

When Hermann Göring refused to commute the sentences of the four,[2] on 1 August 1933, in the courthouse courtyard – now home to Altona's Local Court – they were beheaded.

[3][4] In East Germany, a school in Klausdorf as well as a street in Wismar were named after Bruno Tesch.