Werner Scharff, born 1912, worked in Berlin as an electrician. He married Gertrud Weisman in 1938. Werner Scharff was employed as an electrician in the Levetzowstraße deportation assembly camp in 1941, and later also in Große Hamburger Straße, where he supported imprisoned Jews. Werner Scharff and Otto Weidt knew each other well, having presumably met through Hans Rosenthal.
The Scharffs went underground on June 10, 1943. Werner Scharff was discovered on July 14, 1943, and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. He managed to escape back to Berlin on September 7, 1943. Together with Hans Winkler, Werner Scharff founded the Community for Peace and Reconstruction resistance group. Its members supported Jews living in hiding, and wrote and distributed flyers. Several of the group were arrested by the Gestapo in October 1944, including Werner Scharff. He was shot dead in Sachsenhausen concentration camp on March 16, 1945. Gertrud Scharff was able to hide, and survived the end of the war in Berlin.
