Axel Schaffeld

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Axel Schaffeld as storm leader of the SA

Axel Schaffeld (born November 23, 1904 in Peine ; † August 1, 1932 in Braunschweig ) was a German mechanical engineering student, Nazi university group and SA storm leader.

Life

Schaffeld, a son of the factory owner Hugo Schaffeld, began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover after attending the secondary school in Peine , which he continued in 1928 at the Technical University of Braunschweig . The staunch National Socialist (member since June 1, 1931) and member of the SA soon chaired the Braunschweig student body and was also the university group leader of the NS Student Union (NSDStB). The alleged insult to a German student by a Bulgarian fellow student at the end of 1931 was used by the Nazi student union as an opportunity for a spectacular smear campaign against the university administration. Schaffeld played a key role in this, and the Nazi press caused a sensation throughout the Reich.

Despite massive intervention by the Braunschweig minister of education and NSDAP member Dietrich Klagges in this affair, the actual goal of taking power at the university early could not be achieved. On July 31, 1932, the day of the Reichstag election , which was accompanied by civil war-like unrest in Braunschweig, Schaffeld was appointed SA Storm Leader. In the early hours of the morning after the election, his SA troops fought on the corner of Sandweg / Schulweg with members of a communist road protection force in a firefight in which Schaffeld was killed.

On August 4th, his urn was buried in the main cemetery in the presence of all Braunschweig Nazi celebrities . The Klagges administration made Schaffeld the “ martyr of the movement ” who “succeeded Horst Wessel in the fight for the national community ” and took his death as an opportunity to again vehemently demand police violence for the SA.

Schaffeld and SS man Gerhard Landmann , who was mistakenly shot by his own comrades on June 29, 1933 , were stylized by the Braunschweig National Socialists into symbolic figures, to which memorials and pompous commemorations were dedicated. The way to school where Schaffeld was killed was named after him, as was today's Georg Eckert Realschule in Braunschweig. Both were renamed after the end of the war. In Heidelberg in 1934 one of the comradeships founded by the Nazis in all university towns was named after him. These comradeships were a rival organization to the student associations . When the corps of the Heidelberg Senior Citizens' Convention lost members and feared their dissolution by the Nazi state, the Swabian House of the Corps Suevia was offered as a residence for the comradeship Axel Schaffeld as a concession to the Nazi student union . There were negotiations with the NSDStB, which were led by the former Suevia and then comradeship member and NSDStB functionary Hanns-Martin Schleyer . These negotiations failed and the Suevia disbanded on November 3, 1935. In 1939 the comradeship moved into the Schwabenhaus.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bulletin of the camaraderie and old boys 'stem' Axel sheep field ", Number 2 (November, 1939), p 4, DNB 587352922
  2. ^ Lutz Hachmeister: Schleyer. A German story. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51863-X , p. 125.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Schaffeld, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineering student, NS university group and SA storm leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Torment
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1932
Place of death Braunschweig