Fritz Thurm

Fritz Thurm (2 July 1883 – 13 June 1937) was a German Social democrat politician and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany.

He became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and was elected town councillor and deputy mayor of Lichtenberg in 1919 but not appointed by the Upper President of the Province of Brandenburg.

[1] As a leading member of the underground SPD party executive in Berlin Thurm distributed illegal publications and was arrested in autumn 1933.

[1][2] In January 1936 he took part in a commemoration at the Karl Liebknecht memorial at Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde and was arrested by the Gestapo.

[2][3] The Fritz-Thurm-Weg in Berlin-Karlshorst is named in his honour, a Stolperstein is placed in front of his former residence Kreutzigerstrasse 28, Berlin Friedrichshain.