Ernst Sattler (politician)

Ernst Sattler (* 1892 ; † 1950 ) was a Sudeten German political functionary ( DSAP ).

Life

Sattler learned the commercial profession. From about 1916 he was the head of a folk bookshop in Karlsbad , Eger. Since the 1920s he was in the service of the German Social Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia (DSAP), to whose party executive he was ultimately also a member.

Sattler was co-founder and for many years head of the party-owned DSAP publishing house, Graphia-Verlag in Karlsbad . In this position he was u. a. responsible for the printing of party products such as the daily Volkswille . At the headquarters of the Graphia publishing house on Invalidenstrasse in Karlsbad, he also ran a folk bookstore, through which he sold party-affiliated publications. In addition to party products, Sattler's publishing house also printed a considerable number of third-party orders for the commercial printer. This meant that printing and publishing grew rapidly.

After the National Socialists came to power and the establishment of the exile organization ( SOPADE ) of the SPD in Czechoslovakia , which was banned in Germany in the summer of 1933 , the Graphia Verlag, headed by Sattler, took over the publication and production of the publications of the party in exile: from 1933 onwards, a monthly or two editions of the New Forward , the official organ of the SPD in exile, produced in Karlovy Vary, with Sattler acting as the publisher and in some cases also the responsible editor (in some cases Wenzel Horn also did this ). The New Forward , which was published in Czechoslovakia, replaced the traditional SPD party newspaper, the Forward , which was banned in Germany . In the matter, Sattler was mainly responsible for the financial management of the Graphia publishing house and its newspapers and only to a small extent for the journalistic content.

In addition to his work as publisher of the New Forward , Sattler also took over the management of the SDAP organ Volkswille in 1933 .

Due to the staunchly anti-National Socialist tendency of the New Forward and the popular will , Sattler was soon targeted by the police surveillance organs of the Nazi dictatorship: In a report by the Dresden Gestapo headquarters on December 9, 1936, Sattler was classified as an important target during the managed publishing house as "the largest and most efficient Marxist company in the Sudeten German-speaking area". The number of employees in the publishing house and printing company was estimated at around 200.

In view of the occupation of the Sudeten areas by the German Reich in autumn 1938, Sattler emigrated to Great Britain.

At the end of the 1930s, the National Socialist police officers classified Sattler as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be in the event of one successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops subsequent SS special commandos with special priority.

literature

• Stefan Appelius : Heine: The SPD and the long road to power. 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Hasenöhrl: Struggle, resistance, persecution of the Sudeten German social democrats. Documentation of the German Social Democrats from Czechoslovakia in the fight against Henlein and Hitler , p. 52.
2. ^ Entry on Sattler on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .