Emil Schönfeld

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VdN Ehrenhain Weimar Bertha Schönfeld

Ernst Emil Schönfeld (born October 13, 1885 in Bad Lausick near Leipzig , † January 31, 1966 in Weimar ) was a German trade unionist .

Life

After attending elementary school, which he was able to finish after the 7th grade due to good performance, he began an apprenticeship as a retail bookseller at FA Brockhaus in Leipzig . After that he went to sea for a few years. His military service from 1905-1907 he performed in the Navy , where he also in the First World War was on duty. Since 1907 he was a member of the Association of Factory Workers in Germany (Factory Workers Association = FAV) and the SPD and until the outbreak of World War he was a member of the local administration of the FAV in Leipzig. During the revolution , from December 1918 to March 1919, he was a representative of the Leipzig Workers' and Soldiers' Council and co-founder of the local sailors' security company.

VdN Ehrenhain Weimar Emil Schönfeld

From April 1919 he was managing director of the Leipzig payment office of the FAV and party functionary in the OV Leipzig-Ost. From 1925 he was the district manager of the FAV in Erfurt and an honorary state labor judge at the state labor court (LAG). After the Nazis came to power, he was arrested on May 2, 1933, and after his release from prison on July 1, 1933, he was released and unemployed. Even after the trade unions were banned, he maintained the illegal connection with both the chairman of the FAV, Albin Karl , and the trade union officials in Thuringia . On the occasion of a conspiratorial meeting in Berlin, he was arrested by the Gestapo together with Albin Karl, Karl Miertschke and Arthur Erdmann . Until December 14, 1935, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in the Columbia-Haus concentration camp in Berlin. After his release from prison, he made his way as groundskeeper and warehouse worker. It was not until 1941 that he found a job as an accountant at Orban & Kühn in Vesser / Schmiedefeld. Here he saw the end of the war. From August 1, 1945 he was head of the finance department in the Suhl district office . Since September 1945 he was local group chairman and district board member of the FDGB . In 1949 he was district forest manager in Georgenthal and in 1951 in Meiningen. Emil Schönfeld found his final resting place in the VdN Ehrenhain on the cemetery in Weimar, where his second wife Bertha was also buried.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Kaiser For life and death
  2. ↑ Gerd Kaiser (ed.) Upright and strong
  3. ^ Kurt Schilde and Johannes Tuchel Columbia House
personal data
SURNAME Schönfeld, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönfeld, Ernst Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Lausick near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1966
Place of death Weimar