Emil Heinrich Darapsky

Emil Heinrich Darapsky (born June 10, 1906 in Mainz , † October 30, 1944 ) was a German study assessor who was sentenced to death for degrading military strength .

Life

Emil Heinrich Darapsky was the son of the engineer and fire director Anton Basilius Darapsky. After graduating from high school in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse in 1925 , he first studied law and then philology in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Paris and Giessen. In Giessen he became an active member of the catholic student association Nassovia in the KV . In February 1933 he passed the trainee exam, in March 1935 the assessor exam and acquired the qualification to teach German, history and French.

Darapsky came from a devout Catholic family. Like his younger sister Elisabeth Darapsky , he never made a secret of his rejection of the National Socialist worldview, which led to the fact that, for obvious reasons of harassment, he was not employed as a teacher at a grammar school for four years, but as an assistant teacher at seven different elementary schools. It was not until April 1939 that he became a student assistant at the grammar school in Wöllstein . Due to his unstable health, he was only drafted for military service for a short time and taught at the grammar school until autumn 1943. He continued not to hide his opinion on National Socialism and shared letters with his sister openly and critically about National Socialism and the war. In autumn 1943 he was reported by professional colleagues who passed two of his letters to the Gestapo . His diaries were found in subsequent house searches, and in a house search in his mother's apartment, a letter was found that Darapsky had written as a soldier and in which he had relentlessly analyzed National Socialism.

After Emil and Elisabeth Darapsky were arrested in autumn 1943, the trial against both of them began before the Berlin Regional Court in January 1944, and the charges were for undermining military strength . Emil was sentenced to death on September 6, 1944 and hanged on October 30, 1944. The urn with his ashes could only be buried in the family grave in Mainz in 1947.

Emil Darapsky was married to Else Kullmann from Mainz. The daughter Ingeborg Elisabeth Ziegler (née Darapsky), born on December 15, 1942, emerged from the marriage.

Honors

The Catholic Church included Emil Darapsky as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

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• Johannes Chwalek: Emil Darapsky. Catholic in hostile times. In: Mainz magazine. Middle Rhine Yearbook for Archeology, Art and History, Volume 109, 2014, pp. 147–155.
• Michael F. Feldkamp in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of KV. 3rd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 4). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1994, ISBN 3-89498-014-1 , p. 26.
• Josef Ready in Academic monthly sheets 1978 p. 243 f
• Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , 6th, expanded and restructured edition Paderborn u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78080-5 , Volume I, pp. 451-454.