Erich Ebel

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Erich Ebel as district leader of the German Red Cross, 1941
Erich Ebel as trainee lawyer, Erfurt 1925
District office and service villa of District Administrator Iserlohn, 1940
Nazi propaganda event on the Iserlohn market square in 1940. Ebel row middle left in civilian clothes
Erich Ebel as government director at a reception of the Cologne district government in 1960

Erich Ebel , with full name Erich Ernst Ebel , (born November 6, 1901 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † June 25, 1973 in Wittmund ) was a German civil servant (until 1945 NSDAP , later SPD ) and under National Socialism district administrator of the Iserlohn district .

origin

Ebel was the son of the officer Rudolf Eugen Siegfried Ebel and his wife Elisabeth Margarethe Ebel, born in a family of manufacturers. Grundner from Königsberg. On the part of his mother, he was descended from exiles from Salzburg . After attending school in Pillau and Stettin , Ebel graduated from high school in Erfurt in 1921 . He then studied law, political science and economics at the universities in Munich and Halle (Saale) . He belonged to the colored, compulsory country team Vitebergia Halle . In 1925 he became a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Naumburg after passing an exam with "Gut" . In 1930 Ebel passed the assessor examination after stints in Frankfurt (Oder) and Breslau . In 1935 he was appointed to the Prussian government council.

Family and offspring

Ebel married on the thirtieth August 1934 Renate Betty Franziska Klietmann, with whom he had four children, including the later district director of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district Knut Georg Ebel (1938 - 2014) and Pastor Dr. Jobst Christian Ebel (1940-2019). Among other things, he was related to the pastors Eduard Ebel , Hans Ebel and Johann Wilhelm Ebel and, through his wife Renate, to the head of the building committee of the Olympic Village from 1936, Georg Schulz and the phalerist Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann .

Joined the NSDAP and appointed district administrator

Ebel joined the NSDAP on March 1, 1933 and the SA on June 30, 1933 . On November 1, 1939, he became a deputy, and on August 9, 1940, he was finally district administrator in Iserlohn , chairman of the supervisory board of Iserlohner Kreisbahn , supervisory board member of Westfälische Ferngas AG , administrative board of Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk AG , district leader of the German Red Cross and the Sauerland mountain association . The activity was strongly influenced by the war. In 1941 Ebel also administered the district of Unna and in 1942 the Ennepe-Ruhr district . The consequences of the destruction of the Möhne reservoir after May 16, 1943 were formative . In 1943, according to the head of the cripple nursing home in Berchum, Ebel prevented it from being evacuated. At the beginning of 1944, when Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg visited his service villa in Iserlohn , he refused to participate in any opposition. From 1949 to 1941 and from 1942 to 1945 Ebel was the representative of the district office manager for local politics of the NSDAP, even if statements in the denazification procedure emphasize that Ebel was not a fanatical National Socialist.

End of the war and internment

In 1945 Iserlohn became the center of the eastern part of the Ruhr basin . According to Ebel's own statement and that of those involved, he turned to the site commander and in writing to the Reich Defense Commissioner against the destruction of bridges and traffic routes and ordered the distribution of the food to the population on his own initiative. He was arrested on April 18, 1945 together with the then District President von Arnsberg, Lothar Eickhoff and others in his Dientsvilla and interned in the Recklinghausen camp. On August 15, 1945 he was dismissed from the civil service. In the denazification process on March 6, 1948 , Ebel was classified in the "IVb / fellow traveler" category, and after a retrial was initiated by the Hagen Chamber of December 18, 1949, in the "V / unencumbered" category. His release from the internment camp took place after being sentenced to a fine of 3,000 Reichsmarks on January 8, 1948.

Post War and Death

After working as a driver and typist for the British Army, Ebel became regional manager of the German Red Cross Westphalia-Lippe in Münster in 1949 . During this time he joined the SPD. In 1957 he was resumed as a civil servant, after a position as a government director in the Düsseldorf district government, Ebel retired in 1966 as a senior government director. On June 25, 1973 he had a fatal accident in a car accident in Wittmund. He is buried in the Iserlohn municipal cemetery .

See also

Ebel (family name)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ War Ministry, Secret War Chancellery: "Ranking list of the royal Prussian army for 1912". ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1912. p. 555.
  2. ↑ http://www.adressbuecher.genealogy.net/addressbook/entry/5474654b1e6272f5d03e874b accessed on May 1, 2020
  3. ↑ https://salzburger.homepage.t-online.de/Fam-name.htm accessed on May 1, 2020
  4. ↑ http://www.familienarchiv-ebel.de CV Erich Ebel
  5. ↑ https://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=132&id=0124&tektId=36
  6. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/velbert/an-der-lantert-in-velbert-iegen-die-lichter-aus-id11883555.html , accessed on May 1, 2020
  7. ↑ http://territorial.de/westfal/iserlohn/landkrs.htm
  8. ↑ District archive of the Märkisches Kreis, District Office Iserlohn inventory B, shelf mark: LA Is B
  9. ↑ http://www.familienarchiv-ebel.de Files on the denazification process 1947
  10. ↑ http://www.familienarchiv-ebel.de files reappointment as civil servant
personal data
SURNAME Ebel, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1973
Place of death Wittmund