This plaque on the Schleusenbrücke over the Spree Canal commemorates Kurt Schumacher. He was an artist and created two of the medallions on this bridge. He was a member of the Schulze Boysen-Harnack resistance group and was arrested on 12 September 1942. Kurt Schumacher was sentenced to death by court martial on 19 December 1942 and executed three days later in Berlin-Plötzensee on 22 December 1942.
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