Coburg Blood Saturday

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The Coburg Blood Saturday is September 3, 1921, on which a protest demonstration by the Coburg SPD and trade unions in Coburg was bloody ended by the Bavarian State Police .

After the assassination of the center deputy and former Reich Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger on August 26, 1921, Coburg works councils and functionaries of the SPD and USPD, led by Franz Klingler and Otto Voye, decided on Saturday, September 3, a “demonstration meeting for the republic and against the to carry out political assassination ”, for which about 2500 people gathered on Coburg Palace Square. During Franz Klingler's speech, trucks drove up in the area, and their crew, police officers equipped with steel helmets and machine guns, immediately began to erect roadblocks, which led to a great uproar among the meeting participants. A large part stormed from Schlossplatz into the city center, where there were violent clashes with the state police. Among other things, hand grenades were thrown and rifle shots fired by the state police. Six out of 20 injured people had to be hospitalized. On the night of September 5, a worker there died of a gunshot wound.

The Coburger Volksblatt described the events on September 5th: “You could already hear distant shots cracking. Comrade Klingler announced the end of the demonstration and was about to call on people to part, the flags and inscription plaques had already been drawn together during the final song and taken to the Buergerlass side when the shots rang out from Johannisgasse. Now Comrade Klingler and several confidants rushed to this place; there was a crash in the market, from the hospital gate; It is impossible to describe the situation as one found it everywhere in the endangered places. The heart tightened at the sight of our Coburg and the wild "order beast" that raced in the streets of our peaceful, wonderful, beautiful Coburg. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Schneier: The connection of Coburg to Bavaria . Coburger Chronik, local supplement of the Neue Presse February 26, 1985
  2. ^ Franz Klingler, Volksblatt, Coburg, September 5, 1921

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