Emil Wendt
Emil Theodor Hans Wendt (born December 6, 1895 in Altona ; † October 26, 1944 in Waldheim / Saxony ) was a German communist . In 1933 he was sentenced to ten years in prison in a trial staged by the National Socialists on Blood Sunday in Altona for aiding and abetting committed murder in unity with a serious breach of the peace . On March 14, 1990, the Nazi injustice judgments were overturned by the German Bundestag .
Life
Emil Wendt grew up with his mother Augustine Wendt and his father Johann Ludwig Weidmann. From 1910 to 1913 he completed an apprenticeship as a baker; after that he worked as a journeyman until the outbreak of the First World War . In 1914 he volunteered for the infantry and was wounded in mid-1916. After the war he went back to his old profession and married on April 27, 1920. On August 20, 1925, he passed his master craftsman's examination at the Altona Chamber of Crafts. Wendt was a member of the Red Front Fighters League and since 1930 a member of the KPD . On July 17, 1932, which later went down in history as Altona Blood Sunday, Communists, including Wendt, who was the technical director of the house protection squadrons, tried to prevent the Nazis from marching through the old town of the workers' stronghold of Altona. In the escalating clashes, two SA men and 16 uninvolved citizens were shot. On June 2, 1933, Wendt was sentenced to ten years in prison for aiding and abetting murder, serious breach of the peace and serious riot. Due to an order from the Reich Minister, he remained in custody even after serving this sentence. In 1943 he was transferred to the Waldheim prison for political prisoners and murdered there on October 26, 1944.
Commemoration
His body was cremated and buried in the Döbeln crematorium . On the initiative of the VVN , the urn was exhumed on September 16, 1953 and transferred to the Ohlsdorf cemetery, where a memorial stone was erected for him in the Hamburg Resistance Fighters Grove of Honor (second row left, first stone: Wendt, Emil TH ).
At his last place of residence on Adlerstrasse (today Scheplerstrasse) in Hamburg-Altona, a stumbling block reminds of him.
A proposal for naming a traffic area or renaming part of Goetheplatz in Altona to Wendt failed in 2014 at the Altona district assembly. On August 27, 2015, they decided to rename part of the Walter-Möller-Park in Altona to "Emil-Wendt-Park". The name change was announced on June 14, 2016.
literature
- Heinrich Breloer , Horst Königstein : blood money. Materials on a German story . Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-922009-46-8 .
- Peter Schulze: Memorial stone for Emil Wendt in the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters . In: Ohlsdorf - magazine for mourning culture , issue No. 123 (November 2013).
- Georg Chodinski: Who was Emil Wendt? VVN / BdA, September 25, 2013.
Web links
- stolpersteine-hamburg.de Information about Emil Wendt
Individual evidence
- ^ Cushion stone inauguration 2013 at Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof eV
- ↑ Altona district assembly: Printed matter 20-0338
- ↑ District Assembly Altona: printed matter 20-0957.2E .
- ↑ OFFICIAL DISPLAY OF THE HAMBURG LAW AND REGULATION SHEET Part II, June 14, 2016, Announcements, Sheet 1050 (PDF document)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wendt, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wendt, Emil Theodor Hans (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and victim of the Nazi justice system |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Waldheim |