Erich goose

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Erich Gans (born May 5, 1908 in Nuremberg , † July 1, 1934 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German worker. He was best known as one of the victims of the so-called Röhm Putsch .

Live and act

Erich Gans came from a Jewish family in Nuremberg-Fürth. His parents were Moritz Gans and his wife Bella, geb. Oppenheimer. In the 1920s he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), in which he was involved in a residential group. Since 1928 he was a member of the Red Aid. Gans, who lived at Dürrenhofstrasse 47, earned his living as a warehouse clerk and clerk.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Gans met the particular hatred of the new rulers because of his membership of two groups hated by the National Socialists - Jew and Communist. He was arrested as early as the spring of 1933 and sent to the Dachau concentration camp.

On July 1, 1934, on the occasion of the Röhm affair , Gans was shot and killed by members of the SS guard , together with three other “ protective prisoners ” ( Julius Adler , Walter Häbich and Adam Hereth ) from the camp on the instructions of the camp commandant of Dachau, Theodor Eicke . Officially, the shootings were justified by the fact that the four had declared their solidarity with the SA leaders around Ernst Röhm, who were supposed to be a coup against Hitler . The actual reason for their killing, however, was probably that the "favorable" opportunity to take action against the SA was used by the Dachau camp administration to eliminate some particularly hated prisoners. According to some sources, the killing took place in the camp's bunker. His parents did not receive the ashes of goose until October 1934.

In October 1934, the report of Gans' murder also reached other countries: The Pariser Tageblatt reported on October 26, 1934 that Gans was the ninth Nuremberg Jew who had been murdered in Dachau up to this point.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Memorial Book of the Jewish Victims of the Shoah , 2002, p. 499 incorrectly names October 18, 1933 as the date of death.
  2. ↑ Hermann Schirmer: Das Andere Nürnberg , 1974, p. 196.
  3. ↑ Memorial and Education Center House of the Wannsee Conference: We are young, the world is open. A Jewish Youth Group in the 20th Century , 2002, p. 57.
  4. ↑ Schirmer, p. 196.
  5. ^ International Center for Law and Freedom: Nazi Bastille Dachau , 1939, pp. 86f.
  6. ↑ Urn from Dachau , in: Pariser Tageblatt of October 26, 1934.
personal data
SURNAME Goose, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German workers
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1934
Place of death Dachau concentration camp