Erna Döbele

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Erna Döbele (born Horadam; born May 10, 1915 in Karlsruhe , † July 2001 in Murg (Upper Rhine) ) is known for rescuing 96 Polish prisoners of war at the end of World War II . Erna Döbele is also the name of a play by the southern Baden dialect poet Markus Manfred Jung , which premiered in Herrischried in 2009 .

Life

Erna Döbele lost both parents at an early age and grew up with different families and older siblings. In 1936 she married the master carpenter Ludwig Döbele and moved to Murg. Ludwig Döbele was Murger town councilor and active in the male choir. She and her husband had three sons. During World War II she was an air raid clerk in her community. She was heavily involved in the cultural and creative area in her place of residence. She co-founded the women's group Happy everyday life ; she chaired it for ten years. She sang in the city's Catholic church choir and took an active part in the Muettersproch Society Group Hochrhii . Another creative engagement was the publication of her volume of dialect poems E Stube full of Sunneschii . Erna Döbele was one of the first to take care of the asylum seekers who come to Murg. In addition, there was the organization of bus trips and the diverse commitment to the Murger carnival . In 1945 she spectacularly saved the lives of 96 Polish prisoners of war, but this was forgotten and only became public when a letter of thanks from Poland was received by her community in 1989 . Erna Döbele died in July 2001 after a long illness in Murg and is buried there.

Liberation of the prisoners

A few days before the end of the Second World War (May 8, 1945 in Europe), the district leader Johann Bender had 96 Polish prisoners of war, who were hoping to be sent home, line up on Münsterplatz in Bad Säckingen to find them in a gravel pit ( Warmbach butcher's pit ) near To have Rheinfelden (Baden) shot. The then 30-year-old Erna Döbele did not want to allow this and went into the inner courtyard of the town hall to save the prisoners. She herself said that she had pleaded with her Guardian Angel for help in finding the right words and that the thanks were not due to her but to God. “Either you release the people out there, or I will tell the poor Poles what to do with them in the gravel pit near Warmbach,” Bender shouted in order to relieve the Poles who had been waiting in scorching heat for over an hour. The day before, Döbele had learned by telephone from the then vocational school teacher Hörle from Rheinfelden that the Polish prisoners were to be executed. After her statement, nothing happened at first, then she was to be taken to the town hall. She resisted the two SS men and finally managed to get District Leader Bender to come to her. Despite her great fear, she said to him: “Can you load that on your conscience? 96 people! You are murderers! You have a wife and four small children at home! ”This courage was rewarded with the release of 96 Poles. However, Erna Döbele was arrested and left in the courtyard of the town hall. One of the Poles returned and helped her escape over the wall. She confided in the then Mayor of Murger, Grass, and was held in “protective custody” until the end of the war. Erna Döbele told over and over again from that day and was designed by Martin Schley on 17 October 1992, the radio program Vis a Vis the S4 Radio Breisgau interviewed. There she described in detail what had happened that day.

Honors

  • In 1991, Federal President Erna Döbele presented the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon as part of a public honor.
  • In 1992/1993 she was named the first "fool's god" by the fool's guild because of her commitment to the Murger carnival.
  • In 1994 she received the Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland . With her family, the chairman of the Maximilian Kolbe plant , Reinhold Lehmann from Freiburg, the district administrator Bernhard Wütz, the mayor of Murg, Michael Schöke, and the clerk Konrad Lüthy, she accepted the honor, which was presented by Consul General Andrzej Kaczarowsky on behalf of the President Lech Wałęsa was brought.
  • In 1996 Erna Döbele and her husband Ludwig Döbele were honored with the Murg community medal on the occasion of their diamond wedding.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NSDAP files of the party chancellery
  2. ↑ Di: Who will be Wack's valiant successor? In: Badische Zeitung , November 11, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Döbele, Erna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horadam, Erna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and lifesaver
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH July 2001
Place of death Murg (Upper Rhine)