Alwin Engelhardt

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Alwin Engelhardt (born May 17, 1875 in Nordhausen , † October 10, 1940 in Schmölln ) was a German executioner .

Life

Engelhardt was the son-in-law of the executioner Wilhelm Reindel (a son of the executioner Friedrich Reindel ), at that time the owner of a masking shop in Schmölln, Thuringia . He officiated for the first time from 1900 until his dismissal in 1906 and then again from 1933 to 1936 in Prussia as an executioner. During his tenure, he executed over 100 people.

In 1906 he was fired because of financial irregularities.

Engelhardt's reinstatement as executioner took place on July 31, 1933 through a letter from the Saxon Justice Minister Otto Thierack . For his work, Engelhardt received a contractual fee of RM 350 per execution or, in the case of several executions carried out at the same time, for each additional RM 150. During the Nazi era, the number of executions was much higher than before ( list ).

The people executed by Engelhardt included u. a. the child murderer Elisabeth Wiese , whom he judged in 1905, and the alleged Reichstag arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe , whom he beheaded on January 10, 1934 at around 7:30 a.m. in the courtyard of the district court building in Leipzig .

literature

  • Alexander Bahar and Wilfried Kugel : The Reichstag fire. How history is made. edition q in Quintessenz-Verlag, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-86124-513-2 .
  • Karl Wilhelm Fricke (Hrsg.): Prison system and political abuse. On the history of the penal institutions in Bautzen from 1904 to 2000 (= Sächsische Justizgeschichte, No. 19), Dresden 1999.
  • Matthias Blazek: Executioner in Prussia and in the German Empire 1866–1945 . Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0107-8 .
  • Matthias Blazek: "Mr. Public Prosecutor, the sentence has been carried out." The brothers Wilhelm and Friedrich Reindel: Executioners in the service of the North German Confederation and His Majesty 1843–1898 . Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8382-0277-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In detail: Blazek: Die Brüder Wilhelm und Friedrich Reindel , 2011, pp. 18, 129 ff.
  2. ^ Klaus Hillenbrand : Desired career executioner: Why men wanted to be executioners under National Socialism . Campus 2013, ISBN 978-3593397238 , p. 279 (footnote 90)
  3. ↑ Cf. DER SPIEGEL 52/1959: “ Get up, van der Lubbe!” .
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Alwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German executioner
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1940
Place of death Schmoelln