Erich Glaser

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Erich Glaser (* 3. February 1901 ; † 9. February 1984 in Dresden ) was a German mountaineer, resistance fighters against the Nazis and East Germany - sports official and Consul .

Life

After attending elementary school, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Dresden in 1915 , after which he worked in various printing houses until 1933. Then he became unemployed.

Glaser was enthusiastic about sports and at the age of 16 joined the climbing club "Enzian" and the Saxon Mountaineering Association (SBB), where he also worked for several years in its Samaritan department. In 1928 he joined the tourist association "Die Naturfreunde" (TVDN), founded in 1895, and its subsidiary United Climbing Departments (VKA), as well as the KPD . In January 1930 the VKA elected him first chairman, but a few months later he was expelled from the club because he had participated in the Red Sports Reich meeting in Erfurt . Since many members of the VKA remained loyal to him, the TVDN dissolved the VKA in July 1930. In the same month the Naturfreunde-Opposition - United Climbing Departments eV (NFO-VKA) was founded, which already had 300 members in September and of which he became the first chairman.

As early as 1931, his political activities led to his first arrest for dissolution work in the Reichswehr and his conviction by the Leipzig Reich Court . In April 1933 he was briefly arrested again, whereupon he emigrated to Czechoslovakia in May . From there he organized the illegal border work, but was also imprisoned there in 1935 for forging passports. After his release he worked as an employee of the German Department of the KPD in Prague , where he was temporarily responsible for the delivery of illegal literature to Germany after the shooting at Aisle 31.

From March 1938 he took part in the Spanish War, where he was so badly wounded that his right leg had to be amputated. After fleeing to France, he was interned in Gurs from 1939 to 1942 and then extradited to Germany, where he was imprisoned in Dresden and sentenced by the Higher Regional Court to four years in prison and loss of honor in December 1943 for high treason . At the beginning of May 1945 he was released from Waldheim prison .

In Saxony he became the cadre leader of the district leadership of the KPD in the summer of 1945 and from 1949 worked on the establishment of the Ministry for State Security , in which he joined and in which he worked until 1959. After a few years as a consul in Budapest in Hungary , he worked as a sports official in the German Association for Hiking, Mountaineering and Orienteering of the GDR (DWBO), of which he was president for many years.

He spent his retirement in Dresden.

Honor

literature

  • Office and Presidium of the DWBO of the GDR: Erich Glaser - unforgotten. In: der tourist , 1984, no. 4, p. 3.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to other information on February 10th. The date of death February 9 comes from a contemporary press release by DWBO from 1984.
personal data
SURNAME Glaser, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climber and mountaineer, opponent of National Socialism and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1901
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1984
Place of death Dresden