Robert Uhrig

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Robert Uhrig (March 8, 1903 – August 21, 1944) was a German communist who resisted the Nazi regime. Born in Leipzig, he trained as a toolmaker and joined the Communist Party in 1920. He worked for Osram in Berlin and soon led a KPD workplace cell. After the Nazis came to power, he organized a large resistance network in Berlin’s factories, working with Beppo Römer and maintaining ties to the Red Orchestra. In 1941 Charlotte Bischoff joined his group as a courier. Uhrig and Römer published an underground paper, Informationdienst, to report on the war and call for sabotage. In 1942 the Gestapo arrested Uhrig and hundreds of others. He was sent to Sachsenhausen and, on June 7, 1944, was sentenced to death; he was executed by guillotine on August 21, 1944, at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. He was married to Charlotte Kirst Uhrig, who also resisted and survived Ravensbrück, later helping women in East Germany.