Eugene Herbst
Eugen Herbst (born July 4, 1903 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † probably before 1940) was a commercial employee and member of the Reichstag for the KPD .
Life
Herbst, son of the factory worker Karl Herbst, attended a commercial training school in Ludwigshafen for two years after primary school. He was unionized from 1918. In 1919 Herbst became a member of the Free Socialist Youth (FSJ) and the KPD. He was youth leader in the Pfalz district . In 1922, Herbst was expelled from the party at short notice for breach of discipline. In 1923 he became a full-time youth leader in the Rhein-Saar district. From December 1923 to April 1924, Herbst was imprisoned for distributing leaflets urging French soldiers to disobey during the occupation of the Rhineland . From 1925 Herbst was a member of the Central Committee of the KJVD and a member of the KPD's Palatinate district leadership. From December 1929 to December 1930 he was political leader of the KPD district of Palatinate, then until December 1932 secretary for agitprop of the Baden-Palatinate district leadership of the KPD. Between April and December 1931, Herbst was imprisoned on suspicion of aiding in industrial espionage; he had recruited German chemical workers for the Soviet Union. The pre-trial detention counted toward four months in prison for the final sentencing. In July 1932 he was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 27 (Pfalz) .
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Herbst was in “ protective custody ” from July 30 to December 19, 1933 in the Kislau concentration camp . As of June 20, 1934, the Gestapo was considered “fugitive” in autumn; one suspected him to be in Switzerland. A Gestapo agency in Darmstadt wrote out a search on August 1, 1934. In May 1939, Herbst was expatriated . According to presumably erroneous information in older literature, Herbst was arrested in July 1934, taken to the Dachau concentration camp and died there in December 1934. There is no entry for autumn in the Dachau prisoner index, which has not been completely preserved. On November 9, 1951, Herbst was declared dead by the Mannheim district court; the date of death was set to December 31, 1939.
Honors
Since 1992, one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Herbst in Berlin near the Reichstag . Since March 2008, a stumbling block in Maxstrasse in Ludwigshafen has been a reminder of autumn.
literature
- Klaus J. Becker: The KPD in Rhineland-Palatinate 1946–1956 . von Hase and Köhler, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-7758-1393-4 , p. 450.
- Autumn, Eugene . 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register of the StA Ludwigshafen am Rhein, No. 1205/1903
- ↑ This assessment in: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. 3rd edition, Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 , p. 189.
Web links
- Eugen Herbst in the database of the members of the Reichstag
- Hermann Morweiser, Klaus J. Becker: Eugen Herbst laying stumbling blocks (PDF; 91 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Autumn, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | commercial employee and politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: between December 19, 1933 and November 1951 |