Emil Recknagel

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Emil Recknagel (born January 18, 1880 in Suhl , † January 5, 1945 in Weimar ) was a German porcelain painter and social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism , who was executed with the guillotine in the court of the Weimar Regional Court for high treason and degradation of military strength .

Life

After attending elementary school, he learned the profession of porcelain painter. In 1910 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After 1913 , he was no longer able to work because of his disease from open TB . He now earned his living as a representative for sewing machines , as a shoemaker and as an advertiser for the newspaper “Der Volkswille”, which was published by the KPD and on whose supervisory board he was temporarily part. Towards the end of the First World War he joined the Spartacus Leagueand the USPD . In 1920 he took part in the fight against the Kapp Putsch . He was a member of the requisitioning command that confiscated weapons manufactured and stored in the Suhl weapons factories . In 1927 he briefly took part in the Lenin Bund , but returned to the SPD in 1928. After being unemployed several times , he found employment as a caretaker at the Hohenloh School in 1930 , but was dismissed in 1933 for political reasons. He did not resume work in a metal trade until 1938, but had to give it up again in 1941 when his TB broke out again. During a mass arrest on September 3, 1943, he was taken to the Greiz court prison . On November 22, 1944, he and other resistance activists, including his wife, were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Rudolstadt for high treason and undermining military strength . In a farewell letter to his children, he wrote: “ You need not be ashamed, we die innocently. We will be avenged ... "

In 1901 he married Minna Recknagel , and this marriage had two children, including her son Albin. Wife Minna shared her husband's anti-fascist activities and was therefore executed like him.

memory

  • His name and that of the other resistance fighter are carved on the memorial at the former settlers' restaurant on Friedberg.
  • On May 5, 2008 , two stumbling blocks for Emil and Minna Recknahgel were laid in front of their house at Lupinenweg 4.

literature

  • Gerd Kaiser (Ed.), Upright and strong , in it Dagmar Schmidt with a memory of Emil and Minna Recknagel, p. 101ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism II, p. 885
personal data
SURNAME Recknagel, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1945
Place of death Weimar