Erhardt Schübel

Erhardt Schübel (born August 15, 1901 in Goldlauter , † April 5, 1945 in Tiefurt ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

He was born the third of four children in the family of a china lathe operator and his wife. His father died when he was ten years old, and at 14 he no longer had a mother. The children were raised in foreign families. After attending elementary school , he began an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer , which he was unable to complete due to the economic decline. When he was not unemployed , he found work as a lathe operator or toolmaker . With the beginning of war preparations, he found a job in 1935 at the Friedrich Wilhelm Heym company in Suhl . In 1940 he made up his journeyman's examination and passed his master craftsman examination in 1941 .

In 1922 he joined the Communist Party a (KPD), with the mandate it in the 1927 local council of Henry was elected. At the same time he became auditor of the municipal administration and a member of the school council. He was also active in the consumer cooperative . In Beekeepers Association , he worked as a passionate beekeeper. The consumer cooperative included numerous trading and supply institutions, the functioning of which required great attention. The administration, apprenticeship training, bakery and the “Heuboden” consumer restaurant were at the same time meeting points and places of anti-fascist communication . When the Hitler Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 , he told his son Hans: “ Now Hitler has already lost the war. “On September 3, 1943, numerous Suhl anti-fascists were admitted to the state prison in Ichtershausen , including Schübel. He was handcuffed with steel that cut his wrists at night for two months . After that, he was in the penitentiary Greiz transferred, where he worked on tuberculosis ill. This was followed by a three-month stay in the Stadtroda prison hospital . Finally he was taken to the Hohenasperg fortress . Then he was mistakenly transported to a place of the same name in Silesia instead of Rudolstadt in Thuringia , where the trial before the People's Court took place. When he finally got there, he had already been sentenced to death on March 28, 1945. The court staff consisted of SA-Obergruppenführer Kurt Günther , Chamber judge Dr. Paul Reimers , District Court Judge Karl Welp and People's Judge Dr. Johannes Koehler.

The final stage of his life was Schübel's deportation to the Webicht , a wooded area between Weimar and Tiefurt, where on the night of April 5, 149 prisoners - not even convicted - were executed by an SS firing squad, including Erhardt Schübel, Guido Heym and Robert Gladitz . The murder command included Criminal Secretary Martin Berthold , Criminal Commissioner and SS Sergeant Adolf Fechter , Criminal Secretary and SS Obersturmbannführer and commander of the security service Hans Helmut Wolff .

Since 1922 Schübel was married to Marie, born Rußwurm from Heinrichs, and had their son Hans with her.

memory

• The names of Gottlieb Hess , Erhardt Schübel and Ernst König are carved on the foot of a grave and memorial site with a statue in Heinrich's cemetery .

• In the Webicht there is a memorial stone for the victims of the Weimar murder.

• The school in Suhl-Neundorf , which no longer exists today, bore Schübel's name. A memorial plaque on the school disappeared in 1990 without a trace.

• The street in which Schübel's house is located was named Erhardt-Schübel-Straße.

literature

• Gerd Kaiser (Ed.): Upright and strong , in it Hans Schübel with a memory of Erhardt Schübel, p. 106ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism II, p. 885