Erich Strobel

Erich Strobel (born May 20, 1914 in Stuttgart-Wangen ; † March 9, 1943 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Erich Strobel was the youngest of the six children of Wilhelm and Wilhelmine Strobel, b. Brecht. He grew up in Stuttgart-Wangen and was brought up in the Protestant faith. From 1928 he completed an apprenticeship as a businessman at the Biesinger ink factory in Untertürkheim . After completing his apprenticeship, he became unemployed. In the basement of his parents' house in Stuttgart-Wangen at Laupheimer Strasse 10, he tried to set up a grocery store with other unemployed people; later he worked in his brother Albert's grocery store. Erich Strobel joined the white-collar union and worked for it as a volunteer functionary. It is not known whether he belonged to a party; with friends and relatives he was in any case asCommunist . From 1933 he was active in the resistance movement against the National Socialist regime. In addition to Strobel, at least seven other young people from Wangen were part of the active core of the resistance movement in the Neckar suburbs of Stuttgart . Among other things, the sabotage of the transmission of a Hitler speech went back to these activists : the transmission cable was cut. The group also wrote and distributed leaflets, some of which were blown up by exploding black powder and thus distributed widely, and carried out educational work through posters and slogans, for example on the night of August 1, 1935 on the Neckar Bridge to Untertürkheim.

An undercover agent of the Gestapo finally revealed a secret meeting, which had been disguised as a carnival ball: All participants of the meeting were in a cafe in Gablenberg photographed, whereupon Erich Strobel and 25 other resistance fighters were arrested in June 1936th Erich Strobel was held in the remand prison on Büchsenstrasse until his trial began in March 1938 . On March 24, 1938, he was sentenced to four years in prison for “preparing a treasonous enterprise” . Among other things, the defendants in the trial, whose files no longer exist, were accused of producing and distributing information leaflet disguised as a construction manual for a folding boat . Strobel first came to Ludwigsburg , then to the Aschendorfer Moor camp near Papenburg , where he had to reclaim moor and heather areas. He had the prisoner number 156/38. In the spring of 1940 he hoped to be released like his comrade Albert Huppenbauer. Instead he was taken to “ protective custody ” in Welzheim concentration camp and then to Dachau concentration camp as inmate no. 24249. While caring for typhus patients in this concentration camp, he apparently infected himself. On March 9, 1943, he succumbed to the disease.

A stumbling block was laid in front of Erich Strobel's parents' house in Stuttgart-Wangen .

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1. ↑ Jos. Biesinger