Erna Scholz

Erna Scholz (born October 26, 1906 in Heidenau , † January 20, 1935 in Coswig ) was a German local politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Scholz was born into a working-class family. When she left school in 1921, she was one of the few who received the youth consecration . In 1925 she joined the Communist Party of Germany. She was also a member of the International Workers Aid , the Red Aid , the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition and the proletarian free-thinker movement .

Scholz worked at the Küttner artificial silk factory in Pirna , where she was also a member of the works council . On her initiative, the company newspaper "Spider" was created, for which she wrote many of the articles. In the course of the global economic crisis , Scholz became unemployed in 1931. In the same year she was elected to the KPD's Saxony district leadership . In Heidenau Scholz worked as a city councilor.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Scholz continued to work illegally for the KPD. She was in close contact with the woman leader of the KPD sub-district Ida Daß from Pirna. Both distributed party newspapers and raised funds for illegal work. On April 25, 1933, Scholz and Margarete Haak from Pirna near Kohlmühle (Hohnstein) met Walter Richter ("Florian"), who gave them illegal pamphlets that had been smuggled in from Czechoslovakia. Haak and Scholz then transported them to Pirna on their bicycles. At the beginning of June 1933, Scholz met Richter again in Pirna- Copitz , in Otto Gedlich's apartment , as well as the KPD sub-district leaders Oswald Rentsch and Rudolf Gebauer from Dohna .

On July 30, 1933, Scholz was arrested in Pirna-Jessen and held in the "Fronfeste" (Pirna City Prison). On November 4, 1933, she was transferred to the Hohnstein concentration camp and then remained in so-called “ protective custody ” for three months . The on tuberculosis diseased Scholz was denied any medical attention while in custody, so her health deteriorated rapidly. After she was discharged due to illness in February 1934, Scholz was under police supervision. Even in the "Lindenhof" tuberculosis sanctuary in Coswig near Dresden , she was still discriminated against and spied on. On January 20, 1935, 28-year-old Scholz succumbed to the lung disease that had broken out while in custody.

Honors

In her hometown Heidenau a street bears her name.

literature

• Author collective: Chronicle 1933–1945. On the history of the anti-fascist resistance struggle on the territory of the former Pirna administration . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, district leadership Pirna, committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR district committee Pirna / Sebnitz 1983.
• District leadership of the SED Pirna, Commission for the Investigation of the history of the local labor movement (ed.): Memorials, monuments, memorials and Mahnstätten the labor movement and the anti-fascist resistance movement in the circle Pirna . 2nd revised edition, Pirna 1984.