Ernst Fabisch

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Ernst Fabisch (born November 12, 1910 in Breslau ; † 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Fabisch was initially a member of the German-Jewish Bundischen Jugend, but in 1930 he joined the Communist Youth Opposition (KJO), the youth organization of the Communist Party Opposition (KPO), in Breslau . He went to Berlin and worked at Siemens to finance his studies in civil engineering at the Technical University.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Fabisch took part in the fight against the Nazi regime as a leading functionary of the KJO. Fabisch escaped the first big wave of arrests and was able to flee to Czechoslovakia . From the summer of 1933 he belonged - together with Walter Blass , Walter Ulbrich and Gerhard Hillebrand - to the new, illegal management of the Breslau KPO group. Persecuted by the Gestapo , he fled again to Czechoslovakia in 1934, and later to the Soviet Union . From the end of 1934 he was involved in the construction of the power plant near Stalinsk as an engineer and worked as a designer in the Iskra plant in the Moscow region.

Because of his KPO membership, he fell into the clutches of the NKVD in April 1937 . Fabisch was imprisoned for six months in Moscow for “counterrevolutionary activity” and “participating in the branding group ” and was deported to the German Reich in January 1938. He was arrested by the Gestapo at the German border . In one trial, Fabisch was sentenced to a lengthy prison term and later imprisoned in a concentration camp. Seriously ill with tuberculosis , he was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp. Fabisch was murdered there a few weeks after his arrival.

literature

  • Hermann Weber , Dietrich Staritz (ed.): Communists persecute communists. Stalinist terror and "purges" in the communist parties of Europe since the 1930s . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002259-0 , p. 273.
  • Theodor Bergmann : "Against the Current". The history of the KPD (opposition). 2nd edition, revised and expanded new edition. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-87975-836-0 , pp. 257 and 436.
  • Reinhard Müller: Herbert Wehner - Moscow 1937 . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-930908-82-4 , p. 265.
  • Entry: Fabisch, Ernst . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wladislaw Hedeler , Inge Münz-Koenen (ed.): "I came to your country as a guest ..." German opponents of Hitler as victims of the Stalin terror. Family fates 1933–1956 . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86732-177-8 , p. 226.
personal data
SURNAME Fabisch, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp