Emil de Martini

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Emil de Martini , pseudonyms Erich Marten and Karl Stiller (born March 13, 1902 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † April 20, 1969 in Nuremberg ) was a German journalist and writer who resisted National Socialism and who was an opponent of the Nazi regime in the concentration camp Auschwitz was admitted.

Life

Martini graduated from the state trade school in Asch and then worked as a journalist and writer. Until 1933 he was u. a. employed by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin . He joined the SPD . He emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1937 at the time of National Socialism . In May 1940 he was arrested in Königshütte for illegal political activity and imprisoned in the Montelupich Gestapo prison. From there he was transferred to Auschwitz as a political prisoner, where he arrived on July 18, 1940 and was assigned to the main camp as a political prisoner with the number 1402 . First he had to do forced labor in the building yard and other work details until he was employed as a prisoner clerk in the infirmary of the main camp in the summer of 1942 and as a block elder there in the fall of 1942 . In February 1943 he was released and drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he was deployed in the Reich.

After the end of the war he worked as a writer again, worked as an employee of the Film Week and was chairman of the German Working Group on Narrow Film in 1951/52. Pseudonyms under which he published were Erich Marten and Karl Stiller. In 1948 Martini published his experience report Four million dead accuse ...! Experiences in the Auschwitz death camp and testified in 1964 as a witness in the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.

Honors

Fonts

  • Impostor: crime novel , Leipzig graph. Werke AG, Leipzig 1921
  • Gluten from the heart: Orig. Roman , O. Wessel, Lübeck 1922
  • The old curse: Roman , Verlagshaus f. Folk literature and Art, Berlin 1928
  • Four million dead accuse ...! Experiences in the death camp Auschwitz , Weber, Munich-Obermenzing 1948

literature

  • Helmut Peitsch : Germany's memory of its darkest time: on the function of autobiography in the western zones of Germany and the western sectors from Berlin 1945 to 1949 , Ed. Sigma, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-924859-94-9 .
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. Ein Personenlexikon , Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 53f, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .

Web links

  • 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, interrogation of the witness Emil de Martini on June 4, 1964 (online)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Peitsch: Germany's memory of its darkest time: on the function of autobiography in the western zones of Germany and the western sectors from Berlin 1945 to 1949 , Berlin 1990, p. 466
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, p. 270
  3. ↑ a b c Emil de Martini at http://www.auschwitz-prozess-frankfurt.de
  4. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , 1973, p. 1088
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Emil de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marten, Erich; Stiller, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Johanngeorgenstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1969
Place of death Nuremberg