Willi Sänger

Later he took over the presidency of the Fichte-sports community in Berlin-Southeast and in 1928, led the Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit "struggle unit for red sports unity".

During World War II, Willi Sänger worked extensively as an illegal labor functionary of the Communist Party.

After their defeat in 1942, he joined the largest opposition group in the German Communist Party with Anton Saefkow, Franz Jacob and Bernhard Bästlein.

Willi Sänger resistance to National Socialism is memorialized in the Socialist Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin's Lichtenberg district.

The East Germany National People's Army gave their 40th Airborne Battalion the honor name of "Willi Sänger" on 23 September 1969.

Willi Sänger
Memorial for Willi Sänger in the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin, Germany
Memorial stone, Willi Sänger, Köpenicker Landstraße 186, Berlin-Plänterwald, Germany
Memorial plaque, Willi Sänger, Oppelner Straße 45, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
Ellen Kiessling, winner of the 33rd Willi Sänger commemorative run in 1988