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Wilhelm Guddorf was born on 20 February, 1902 in Melle, Belgium, is a Belgian journalist and resistance fighter (1902–1943). Discover Wilhelm Guddorf's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?

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Age 41 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February 1902
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Melle, Belgium
Date of death 13 May, 1943
Died Place Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany
Nationality Belgium

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1899

In 1899 he became a professor at the commercial college there.

At the beginning of World War I, the family was expelled from the country as Reich Germans.

They moved to Haselünne with five children without possessions.

There Ludwig Guddorf found employment as a teacher at the Lateinschule (secondary school).

1902

Wilhelm Guddorf (alias Paul Braun; 20 February 1902 – 13 May 1943) was a Belgian journalist, anti-Nazi and resistance fighter against the Third Reich.

Guddorf was a leading member of a Berlin anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Abwehr.

Guddorf was the editor of the Marxist-Communist Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag) newspaper.

Wilhelm Guddorf came from a middle-class Catholic family.

His father, Ludwig Guddorf, taught German, literature, and Greek at the Maison de Melle educational institution in Melle, Belgium for 29 years.

1915

Wilhelm Guddorf, the eldest son of the family, attended the Latin School in Haselünne from 1915 to 1917, then the Royal Grammar School in Meppen and dropped out of school in the 12th grade because he had fallen out with his parents because of his "religious and moral views".

The highly gifted student worked temporarily as a tutor on an estate in West Prussia.

1921

Nevertheless, he passed his school-leaving examination in Meppen in 1921 and began studying philology, philosophy, history, literary history and musicology in Münster.

He later mastered all the major European and Slavic languages, plus Arabic, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

1922

In 1922 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

He worked for several communist newspapers and translated the foreign press for them.

1923

In autumn 1923, he was arrested for "preparation for high treason" and "violation of the Law for the Protection of the Republic".

In November 1923 he managed to escape from the Sennestadt protective custody camp.

From 1923 he lived under the name Paul Braun.

1926

In May 1926 he was caught, served a prison sentence and was released in August 1927.

He also used this pseudonym to sign the articles he wrote, first for the KPD newspaper Freiheit in Düsseldorf, and from 1926-1933 for the official KPD party organ Rote Fahne - latterly as editor-in-chief of foreign affairs.

1933

From 1933, using his pseudonym, he distributed illegal writings against the Nazi regime and was a member of the KPD district leadership of Berlin-Brandenburg.

1934

In April 1934 he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison (in Luckau) for preparing for high treason.

He was then placed in protective custody for two more years in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

1940

After he was released from Sachsenhausen, Guddorf developed contacts with members of a Berlin based anti-fascist group that was later called the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle"), particularly around the groups associated with Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack in spring of 1940.

1942

He was arrested once again in 1942 and in February 1943 was sentenced to death.

Guddorf was arrested on 20 October 1942.

Under torture, Guddorf revealed the names of resistance members in Hamburg to the Gestapo, that lead to the arrest of some 85 people in the North Sea dockyards.

1943

He was executed at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 13 May 1943.

1972

In 1972, a street in Lichtenberg, a Berlin borough, was named after Guddorf.

Guddorf was known to have cowritten some of the Agis leaflets along with John Rittmeister, Schulze-Boysen and others.

The leaflets were produced by the Harnack and Schulze-Boysen Groups and had names like What is a Majority, Freedom and Violence and Call to the workers of the mind and fist not to fight against Russia.

The Agis was a reference to the Spartan King Agis IV.

The leaflets were distributed in Berlin and across Germany.