Carlo Fairhair

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Carlo Schönhaar (born November 20, 1924 in Hedelfingen near Stuttgart , † April 17, 1942 in Paris ) was a German resistance fighter in the Resistance .

Life

Grave in the Paris Ivry Cemetery

Carlo Schönhaar was the son of the communist resistance fighter Eugen Schönhaar . After the denunciation and arrest of his father, he fled with his mother Odette Schönhaar to live with his grandparents in Lausanne , and later from there to southern France, where he was able to continue his schooling despite his “illegal” stay. From 1941 he lived with his mother in Paris, where he attended high school and got in touch with the French resistance movement. He took part in a school strike and was therefore expelled.

As a member of the Bataillons de la Jeunesse , he participated in the preparation for an attack on a propaganda exhibition directed against the Soviet Union by the occupation authorities. By a Gestapo - spy the resistance group flew in March 1942 and Carlo Schönhaar was arrested along with his French friends. A German court martial conducted a show trial in Paris from April 7-14, 1942, and sentenced all 24 accused to death. Although German law did not allow death sentences against people under the age of 18, Carlo Schönhaar was shot at the age of 17 together with other resistance fighters on Mont Valérien .

His mother Odette Fairhair had also joined the French resistance movement and was arrested the day after Carlos was arrested. After 17 days in La Santé prison in Paris and six months in Gestapo imprisonment in Berlin, she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she was imprisoned until liberation by the Red Army in April 1945. After the war, Odette Fairhair returned to France and worked for L'Humanité , the central organ of the French Communist Party .

Honors

  • In Ribnitz-Damgarten there is the Carlo Schönhaar Youth Hostel .
  • The feeder trawler Carlo Schönhaar of the VEB Hochseefischerei was named after him.
  • In the House of Chemistry in Paris there is a memorial plaque for Carlo Schönhaar and his friends.
  • The GDR Post issued a postage stamp with his portrait.
  • A feeder trawler with the fishing identification number ROS 407 of the "Artur Becker" series also got its name.

literature

  • Karl Heinz Jahnke : Youth in the Resistance 1933-1945. Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1985, page 58 ff.
  • Nikolaus Brauns : The man in the background. Eugen Schönhaar as the organizer of the labor movement and the Red Aid. In: Rote Hilfe , page 201 ff.
  • Luise Kraushaar among others: German resistance fighters. Dietz, Berlin 1970, volume 2, page 193 ff.
  • Friedrich Pospiech : Eugen Schönhaar and son Carlo. Communists - resistance fighters - murdered by the Nazi regime in 1934/1942. Two lives for the freedom of Germany and France. 2nd Edition. Esslingen 2001, ISBN 3-00-007854-1 .
  • Ahlrich Meyer : The German occupation in France. Fight against resistance and persecution of Jews. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-14966-1 .
  • Friedrich Pospiech : Eugen Schönhaar and son Carlo. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 2002.
  • André Rossel cherries: Le Procès de la maison de la chimie. L'Harmattan, Paris, ISBN 2-7475-3112-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Kulikowski: Schönhaar, Eugen. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography. Brandenburg Memorials Foundation . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftung-bg.de
  2. ↑ Feeder trawler in the FIKO Rostock. In: Rostocker-Hochseefischerei.de .
personal data
SURNAME Fair hair, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hedelfingen
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1942
Place of death Paris