Erich Scharf

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Erich Scharf (born September 14, 1908 in Ummerstadt ; † July 7, 1943 in the Caucasus ) was a German communist worker , Thuringian KPD member of the state parliament , prisoner and Wehrmacht soldier .

Life

Sharply derived from simple social conditions. After attending primary school , he looked for work and found it in Tambach-Dietharz in the early 1930s . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and supported his party's struggle against the emergence of National Socialism . He was nominated as a candidate by the KPD for the elections to the sixth Thuringian state parliament , was elected and had been a member of the Thuringian state parliament since July 31, 1932.

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was arrested one day after the fire in the Reichstag from all ten Thuringian KPD members of the state parliament. Unlike others, Scharf did not go to the Nohra concentration camp , but was sent to the Gotha police prison. From here he declared to the state parliament office that he was renouncing the state parliament mandate. In November 1942 he was appointed as a soldier to the army moved in and was in a Grenadier Replacement Battalion of Schneidemühl trained. He was killed on July 7, 1943 in battles in the foothills of the Caucasus, in the so-called Kuban bridgehead .

literature

  • Sharp, Erich . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Falk Burkhardt, Udo Wohlfeld: the network. The concentration camps in Thuringia 1933–1937. A documentation on the Nohra, Bad Sulza and Buchenwald camps, and the contribution National Conservative Forces and the Bad Sulza Concentration Camp. Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten , = "wanted 2", Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-935275-01-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falk Burkhardt, Udo Wohlfeld: the network. The concentration camps in Thuringia 1933-1937. A documentation on the Nohra, Bad Sulza and Buchenwald camps, and the contribution National Conservative Forces and the Bad Sulza Concentration Camp. Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten , = "wanted 2", Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-935275-01-3 , p. 68
personal data
SURNAME Sharp, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter and member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Ummerstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1943
Place of death Caucasus