Erich Habersaath

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Memorial stone with Habersaath's name (first on the list) in the cemetery of those who died in March

Erich Habersaath (born November 18, 1893 in Berlin ; † November 9, 1918 there ) was a German toolmaker , workers' leader and the first victim of the November Revolution in Berlin.

Life

Habersaath, born the twelfth child of a working-class family, joined the SPD in 1911 , was one of the co-founders of the USPD in Berlin and was active as a leader of the Berlin workers' youth. On November 9, 1918, he was killed as one of the revolutionary stewards who marched at the head of a demonstration of workers from the Schwartzkopff factories to the Guard Fusilier barracks in Chausseestrasse , along with two other participants, as an officer from the barracks lap. Habersaath was the first to be killed in the November Revolution in Berlin. He was buried in the cemetery of those who fell in March , where in 1958, on the 40th anniversary of the November Revolution, three grave slabs with corresponding inscriptions in memory of the victims of 1918 were embedded.

According to him the past leading to the southern perimeter buildings of the former barracks site was posted on May 31, 1951 Boiler street in Berlin-Mitte in Habersaathstraße renamed. The military technical school of the land forces of the National People's Army in Prora was named "Erich Habersaath" on December 1, 1969. A memorial plaque placed for him on Chausseestrasse at the World Youth Stadium , the site of the former barracks, before December 1973 was removed between February 1993 and October 1996.

Movie

Web links

Commons : Erich Habersaath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Habersaath, Erich . In: Bezirkslexikon des Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , accessed on May 15, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Habersaath, Erich (memorial plaque at the place of death) in the list of honors of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , accessed on May 15, 2011
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Malanowski: November 1918: Potatoes - no revolution . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1968 ( online - includes incident summary).
personal data
SURNAME Habersaath, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German toolmaker and worker leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1918
Place of death Berlin