Ernst Bauer (resistance fighter)

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Ernst Gustav Siegfried ( GS ) Bauer (* December 7, 1916 in Ulm ; † November 28, 1991 in Ulm) was a German resistance fighter and publisher.

Life

As a youth from Ulm he actively opposed the Nazi regime and was therefore a. Punished with arrest, trial, imprisonment, and years of political surveillance. He is portrayed in the White Rose Memorial in Ulm . After the National Socialist " seizure of power " on January 30, 1933, Ernst Bauer, at the age of 16, dealt with the NSDAP's 25-point program in his diary .

Political resistance to National Socialism

Ernst Bauer was politically active and was close to the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). He was upset that this association was banned in Württemberg on March 14, 1933 and that many members were taken into " protective custody " in the Heuberg concentration camp . So he got involved in rebuilding the KJVD underground. As the head of an Ulm district group, he also took care of setting up a new organization in Heidenheim . He rode his bike to Laupheim and Biberach an der Riss to distribute the forbidden KPD magazine Das Tribunal .

He was also registered as a member of the Christian Association of Young Men (YMCA). Ernst Bauer recognized that the ideology of National Socialism and the Christian faith were at odds with each other. SA uniforms in the cathedral service upset him. Bauer tried "to bring Christian, communist and socialist youth into conversation with one another". Bauer described this period as "a life of opposites". He collected money in a box for the Inner Mission . At the same time, however, he also collected for the Red Aid . Depending on the situation, he changed the collecting can. For women, he pulled out the box for the inner mission, while he asked older workers for a donation for the families of imprisoned comrades. In 1933 farmer was in the Whitsun camp of the Ulm YMCA on the Münsinger Alb . He informed the KJVD what he had seen at the Münsingen military training area . He had the impression that this was "the preparation for a war against the Soviet Union ." A report on these activities reached the Gestapo .

Arrest and reprisals by the National Socialists

On July 13, 1933, Ernst Bauer was arrested at 6.30 a.m., whereupon he spent four weeks in solitary confinement in the Gestapo , without knowing whether and when he would be tried or how long his detention would last. In January 1934, the Stuttgart Special Court imposed a sentence of eight months in prison. Two of his co-defendants were Emil Thierer and Hans Hörmandinger. After his release, the reprisals continued. For example, Bauer was not allowed to continue attending school and was therefore only able to take his secondary school exams with great difficulty as an external student. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller , but at first he was not given the opportunity to practice his profession, because as a political convict he was not given the required "work book". A bookseller from Freiburg hired him anyway. Even as a soldier in the Wehrmacht , Bauer was under political surveillance for several years.

After 1945

After the war, Ernst Bauer returned to Ulm and distributed the Neue Zeitung on behalf of the US occupation forces. On April 18, 1946, Ernst Bauer founded the Aegis publishing house in Ulm , which was dedicated to building up democratic cultural work. It was typical of the post-war years that many contemporaries saw in him above all the " communist " and not the opponent of Hitler. In October 1946 Siegfried Unseld began an apprenticeship as a book trade assistant here. In 1949 a specialist book distribution for handicraft books was started, in 1950 a bookstore and in 1958 an antiquarian bookshop. In 1960, Wohlersche Buchhandlung from Ulm was taken over.

Ernst Bauer was also the managing director of the Federal Association of the German Ropemakers, Sailing and Netmaking Crafts and Secretary General of the International Federation of the Ropemakers' Crafts.

Ernst Bauer died in Ulm on November 28, 1991. After his death, his son Ernst Joachim Bauer, who had been running the bookstore since 1980, also took over the management of the publishing house and the antiquarian bookshop.

Fonts

  • Path and goal. Edited by Ernst GS Bauer. Aegis-Verlag, Ulm 1947. ( DNB 830643761 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is Who in the Federal Republic of Germany . II edition 1992, Volume 1 (A – L), p. 89.
  2. ↑ a b Who is who. The German who's who. Edition 1989/1990, p. 55.
  3. ↑ Siegfried Unseld: It started with an argument. Memories of Ernst GS Bauer, Ulm, on the occasion of his death on November 28, 1991. Südwest Presse, Ulm, January 14, 1992
  4. ^ A b Ulm Memorial White Rose, panel 4, 1st part of the curriculum vitae
  5. ↑ 25-point program of the NSDAP on dhm.de.
  6. ^ City of Ulm online: Ulm 1933–1945: Forms of Resistance ( Memento from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Ulm Memorial White Rose - panel 4, 2nd part of the curriculum vitae
  8. ↑ a b c d history of the Aegis publishing house
  9. ↑ Documentation Center Oberer Kuhberg Ulm e. V. - Concentration Camp Memorial, p. 36  ( 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. (PDF file; 1.9 MB), accessed January 10, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dzokulm.telebus.de  
  10. ↑ Peter Michalzik: Unseld. Blessing, 2002, p. 53.
  11. ↑ Peter Michalzik: Unseld. Blessing, 2002, p. 55 online
personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Ernst GS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, person of youth resistance
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1991
Place of death Ulm