John Sieg

John Sieg (February 3, 1903 – October 15, 1942) was an American-born German Communist railroad worker, journalist and resistance fighter, who publicized Nazi atrocities through the underground Communist press and fought against National Socialism in the German Resistance.

He was a key member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo.

He stayed in the United States until February 1928, when Sieg and his wife returned to Germany and he became a freelance author in Berlin.

Upon his release, he began working with the Communist Resistance in the Berlin suburb of Neukölln, becoming the focal point of several groups.

[3] A street in an area of new construction on Frankfurter Allee-Süd in Berlin-Lichtenberg was named after John Sieg on June 22, 1972.