Ernst Henning

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Stolperstein for Ernst Henning next to the entrance of the Hamburg City Hall

Ernst Robert Henning (born October 12, 1892 in Magdeburg , † March 14, 1931 in Hamburg ) was a communist politician who was murdered by SA people .

Life

Henning, who comes from Magdeburg, completed an apprenticeship as a moulder and then worked in several foundries. He joined the German Metalworkers Association and the SPD early on. In World War I soldier, he settled in 1918 in Hamburg-Bergedorf down, was a member of the local workers' and soldiers council , stepping USPD over. With the left wing of the USPD, he joined forces with the KPD at the end of 1920, took part in the Hamburg uprising and, after its failure, had to flee to the Netherlands . Arrested in 1924, he was appointed as ringleader of the Hamburg District Court to four years imprisonment convicted. After he was released prematurely in 1927, he was first elected to the Bergedorf Citizens' Council in the same year and was initially a successor, and since 1928 an elected member of the Hamburg Parliament . He became a member of the waterfront district leadership of the KPD and took a leading position in the Red Front Fighters League .

assassination

Urn grave of Ernst and Marie Henning in the Bergedorf cemetery

On the way back from a KPD event in Kirchwerder on the evening of March 14, 1931, where Henning had given a lecture on behalf of his parliamentary group colleague Etkar André , Henning, together with his companion and comrade Louis Cahnbley, was greeted by several SA men in the bus , the Cahnbley at first thought André was attacked. Hit by several pistol bullets, Henning collapsed and died immediately. Cahnbley was injured in the eye, which later had to be removed, and a vocational school teacher who happened to be present was hit by a bullet.

On March 18, 1931, during the first citizenship meeting after the murder, two NSDAP MPs were injured and the ten KPD MPs present were excluded from the meetings by the citizenship presidium for a month.

On March 21, 35,000 people gathered around the morgue in the Winterhude district where the body had been laid out on the occasion of the transfer of his body and led the coffin in a demonstration to the crematorium at the Ohlsdorf cemetery . Here u. a. Ernst Thälmann gave a commemorative speech. During subsequent demonstrations in the Barmbek district , there were clashes with the police, and one person was killed by a police bullet.

After Henning's cremation, his urn was carried to the Bergedorf cemetery by thousands despite the ban on demonstrations . The funeral speech was held by the resistance fighter Carl Boldt , who died in 1945 after his imprisonment in Neuengamme concentration camp and the evacuation of the camp on Cap Arcona .

Ernst Henning's widow, Marie Henning , was elected to the Hamburg parliament in September 1931.

Judicial aftermath

On November 3, 1931, the trial of three SA men suspected of murder began before the Hamburg jury court. Officially, the NSDAP and the SA distanced themselves from the act, which large parts of the public regarded as a planned assassination attempt. Nevertheless, Hitler instructed his confidante Hans Frank to defend the accused. The SA-man and former policeman Albert Jensen (of the shots had admitted) and Hans were Höckmeier to six years for manslaughter to seven years, the SA squad leader Otto jitters prison convicted. All three were pardoned and released on March 9, 1933 after the NSDAP “came to power ”.

After the liberation in 1945, the perpetrators had to serve the rest of their sentences.

Commemoration

Stumbling block for Ernst Henning in Hamburg-Bergedorf, Hassestraße 11

literature

  • Martina Scheffler: "Murder over Germany". The Hamburg KPD and the murder of Ernst Henning in 1931. Hamburg, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-82-589404-5 .
  • Frank Müller: Members of the Citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 1995, DNB 944894100 .
  • Jörn Lindner, Frank Müller: Members of the citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 2012, DNB 1023694999 .
  • Henning, Ernst Robert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Ulrike Sparr and Björn Eggert (eds.): Stolpersteine ​​in Hamburg. Biographical search for traces . State Center for Civic Education, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-929728-74-3 , pp. 36–39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Dreckmann: Everything was the same in Bergedorf! The struggle for the Weimar Republic and workers' resistance to fascism . Schloßheft 9, Bergedorf 2004, p. 73
  2. ^ A b Alfred Dreckmann: Everything was the same in Bergedorf! The struggle for the Weimar Republic and workers' resistance to fascism . Schloßheft 9, Bergedorf 2004, p. 74
  3. ^ Hans Kellinghusen: The new street names in Bergedorf . In: Lichtwark No. 12, 1st year. Edited by Lichtwark Committee Bergedorf, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 1949. See now: HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549
  4. ↑ Ulrike Sparr: Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg. Ernst Henning
  5. ↑ Stumbling blocks for murdered MdHB final inscriptions City Hall Hamburg (PDF; 16 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henning, Ernst Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD, USPD, KPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1931
Place of death Hamburg