Erich Klapproth (farmer)

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Erich Paul Christian Klapproth (born November 23, 1894 in Schadeleben ; † 1945 in Munich ) was a German farmer who was known as the " Feme Judgment Executor " of the " Black Reichswehr ". Later he was NSDAP district leader and landowner in Poland .

Life

Erich Klapproth was one of eight children of Schadelebener weaver Christian David Christoph Klapproth (1865-1937) and his wife Emma, ​​née Ohlemann (1874-1956). He first grew up on his parents' farm and in 1910 came with his family to Osterbitz in the Leipe district (West Pr.) (Today a district of Golub-Dobrzyń ), where they tried a fresh start in agriculture. After the First World War , his parents were expelled there, but later returned to Pomerania , where they opened a pub.

Imperial Navy and Japanese prisoner of war in World War I.

In 1912 Klapproth joined the Imperial Navy .

Shortly after the mobilization for World War I in August 1914, he was a member of the 2nd Company of the department sailors artillery Jiaozhou Bay in the Siege of Tsingtao used and fell after the surrender of German troops in November 1914 in Japanese captivity . He was first brought to the Osaka POW camp as prisoner number 3958 and transferred with many other prisoners to the camp on the island of Ninoshima on February 19, 1917 . In December 1919 he was released and returned to Germany.

Membership in the German Agricultural Workers' Association in Berlin from 1924 is known.

Black Reichswehr and condemnation

In the 1920s he joined the Black Reichswehr. His sister Rosa Klapproth (1899–1975), married Krause, was temporarily engaged to Paul Schulz and also supported the Black Reichswehr. She also had a child from him, but that she kept from him. She married someone else. As a first lieutenant at the side of Major Bruno Ernst Buchrucker, Schulz was responsible for the practical organization of the so-called work details. Rosa Klapproth was nicknamed "Black Pink". Her life story formed the basis for the novel Die Schwarze Rosa. A woman in the Weimar Republic of her granddaughter Birgit Rabisch from 2005.

Erich Klapproth's job in the Black Reichswehr was the torture and execution of those sentenced to death by Lieutenant Paul Schulz for banal offenses or alleged treason . He and other members of the Black Reichswehr were sentenced to death on March 26, 1927 by a Prussian court chaired by District Court Director Julius Siegert for the torture and femicide committed . On February 13, 1928, Klapproth's sentence, like that of Fritz Fuhrmann , Peter Umhofer and Paul Schulz, was changed by the Prussian State Ministry to life imprisonment. In the same year, the later Reich Propaganda Minister , Joseph Goebbels, with specific reference to the Schulz and Klapproth case in his article Prison Germany , published in the anthology Wir klagen! Nationalists in the dungeons of the bourgeoisie , "the enemy", propose , among other things, that Germany has become a "colony of world capital" and that it is therefore not surprising that one is stalking its "heroes" and making them disappear:

“In no other country in the world would it be possible for weeks and coram publico to conduct state treason ex officio before the courts of the people without these judges and their political backers being trampled to a pulp. Because that’s what it’s about: You say Fememordern and you mean soldiers. The army is to be hit, the idea of ​​defense, the will to power - as it is still alive in the last German soldiers. The Schulz and the Klapproth are symbols of that soldierly spirit, which ultimately and fundamentally must hate the new Germany because it elevated self-abandonment to the ruling state principle; which therefore must be persecuted by him and slowly and cowardly destroyed. [...] "

Release from prison and the time of National Socialism

After 107 NSDAP members moved into the German Reichstag as a result of the Reichstag election in 1930 , an amnesty law was passed and all those convicted of femicide were released. In 1931 Erich Klapproth married the painter Edeltraut, née Gathmann , in Allach , with whom he had eight children, two in Allach, three in Berlin and three in Sejny / Poland, one of whom was killed in a mountain accident.

After his release from prison, Klapproth became a storm leader in SA Standard 2 . After the attack on Poland he was promoted to NSDAP district leader and took over agriculture and fishing in Sejny. During the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in 1939, the city ​​was handed over to the German Wehrmacht by the Red Army on October 13, 1939 as a result of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty . Birgit Rabisch found a note in Rosa Klapproth's annals that characterizes his appearance there as follows: “After breakfast he preferred to ride across the fields with his blond-haired crowd of children and bring the 'lazy Polish pack' with the riding whip 'German breeding and Order 'at. "

Escape to Bavaria and execution

On August 31, 1944, the Red Army returned and Sejny became part of Poland again. The Klapproths fled back to Bavaria. In Allach, which had been incorporated into Munich in 1938, shortly before the invasion of the 232nd US infantry regiment at the end of April 1945, Erich Klapproth dissolved the local leader of the Volkssturm Erich Spahn (1896–1945) who was shot on April 28, 1945 by his deputy Johann Hohenleitner. in its function. After the invasion he was presumably tracked down by local auxiliary police in his Allach house and shot by a farmer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The house in front of the houses - Hof Klapproth in Schadeleben - Erich Klapproth's birthplace in 1894 (photo from 1963), Ancestry.com.
  2. ^ Precise date of birth according to: Friedrich Karl Kaul : Justice becomes a crime , Das Neue Berlin, 1953, p. 337
  3. ^ Raphaela Kula: Estate of a Grandmother , Frankfurter Rundschau , December 14, 2005.
  4. ↑ a b c Klapproth, Erich , “Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic ”online, Federal Archives .
  5. ↑ Tsingtau and Japan 1914 to 1920: Klapproth, Erich ; in: Hans-Joachim Schmidt: The defenders of Tsingtau and their captivity in Japan (1914 to 1920) .
  6. ↑ Birgit Rabisch: Die Schwarze Rosa , 2005.
  7. ↑ a b c Thorsten Stegemann: Preparation for National Socialism , heise.de, October 9, 2005.
  8. ^ "Soldier Only!" , Brandenburg State Center for Political Education , 2007.
  9. ↑ a b Birgit Rabisch, Die Schwarze Rosa. A woman in the Weimar Republic (part 2) , WebWecker Bielefeld.
  10. ^ A Long Life for Art , Merkur online, September 10, 2005.
  11. ↑ Petras Dapkevičius: Trumpa vienos šeimos istoria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Lithuanian), in Šaltinis, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.punsk.com.pl  
  12. ^ Walter G. Demmel: Day of Remembrance: The invasion of the Americans in Allach in 1945 , Münchner Wochenanzeiger , September 25, 2012. P. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Klapproth, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klapproth, Erich Paul Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION “Feme judgment executor” of the “Black Reichswehr”, later NSDAP functionary and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Skull life
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Munich