Andreas Schillack (resistance fighter, 1907)

Andreas Schillack (born November 30, 1907 in Gelsenkirchen , † October 20, 1944 in Munich ) was a German miner. He was executed as a supporter of Franz Zielaskos as a victim of the Nazi justice system in Munich-Stadelheim .

Live and act

Stumbling block for Andreas Schillack

Andreas Schillack lived in Gelsenkirchen , at Essener Strasse 71, and worked in the coal mining industry. After Franz Zielasko tried to build up a network in the Ruhr area in 1943 and to organize resistance against the Nazis , Schillack, like his uncle Andreas Schillack sen. were among its supporters. In August, Zielasko and his group were blown up; the Gestapo smashed them. A wave of arrests in several cities in the Ruhr area , the numbers fluctuate between 44 and 56 arrested, was the result.

While Zielasko was murdered under torture by the Gestapo, the other resistance members, supporters and suspects were brought to justice. Andreas Schillack jun. was sentenced to death in court proceedings before the People's Court on June 21, 1944 for “ high treason and favoring the enemy ”. Schillack, for example, was accused of supporting Franz Zielasko with bread tokens for 600 grams, a can of shoe polish and a tube of toothpaste. On 20 October 1944 he was with his uncle and with other co-accused the group Zielasko as Friedrich Struck Meier , Gerhard Possner and Erich Porsch in the place of execution Munich Stadelheim with the guillotine executed.

Honors

In August 2011, a stumbling block was laid in front of Schillack's last house in Essener Strasse 71 in his memory .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irene Stuiber: Executed in Munich-Stadelheim , Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat, Books on Demand, Munich 2004, p. 43, ISBN 3-8334-0733-6 . PDF file, p. 43 ( Memento from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Andreas Schillack junior . Accessed March 14, 2015.
3. ↑ STOLPERSTEINE GELSENKIRCHEN . Accessed March 14, 2015.