Herbert Grasse

Herbert Grasse (9 October 1910 in Berlin; 24 October 1942) was a German communist, resistance fighter and anti-Nazi. Grasse was particularly active in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) as the leader of a KPD sub-section in Neukölln that was largely made up of people who supported the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Grasse, who was a trained printer who produced two communist newspapers. In 1933, he became an editor and distributor of Neuköllner Sturmfahne. In June 1941, he founded and became a publisher and editor of the Die Innere Front along with John Sieg and Otto Grabowski. The Die Innere Front became the main organ of the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle). Grasse' resistance cell was exposed by Gestapo spy, Willi Bredow. When he was arrested, he committed suicide on the way to interrogation.