Eugen Wiedmaier

Eugen Wiedmaier (born November 16, 1900 in Zuffenhausen ; † March 14, 1940 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

After attending elementary school , Wiedmaier completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a commercial employee in various companies until 1932. In 1918 Wiedmaier became a member of the SPD , then the USPD and in 1919 the KPD. Wiedmaier was one of the founders of the Free Socialist Youth in Württemberg . The Württemberg Young Communists elected him in 1920 as political leader of their district organization. In 1922 he was elected to the headquarters of the KJVD , where he was secretary for anti-militarist work. During the occupation of the Ruhr , the headquarters of the KJVD sent him to the Ruhr area as an instructor . After serving as the secretary of the KJVD district management in the Ruhr area for a few months, Wiedmaier was then responsible for the direction of the KJVD district management in Saar, Palatinate and Württemberg. In 1923 he married the communist Maria Siegloch (1896–1977), who was also from Zuffenhausen . In 1924 the central committee of the KPD called Eugen Wiedmaier to Berlin. Here he worked until 1929 as a member of the KPD district leadership Berlin-Brandenburg and as political director of the sub-district Berlin-Tempelhof . During his activity in Berlin, the influence of the communist company cells grew in large companies such as C. Lorenz AG , Fritz Werner AG , R. Stock & Co. and Daimler-Benz . In 1929/1930 he was political secretary of the KPD district leadership in Danzig and in 1931/1932 of the KPD district leadership in Silesia . In 1932 he acted as organizational secretary of the KPD district leadership in Württemberg.

Stumbling block for Wiedmaier in Stuttgart's Marconistraße

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Wiedmaier worked as an instructor for the Central Committee of the KPD for the district organizations in Central Germany. He worked as the political secretary of the party organization in Magdeburg , then in Thuringia and later as an instructor in Baden . On January 26, 1934, he was arrested during a meeting with other officials in Karlsruhe . In December 1934 he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for “preparing for high treason ” by the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. With him also were Gustav Kappler , head of the illegal RGO in Mannheim, and Charles Harth , former Communist Party city council member in Ludwigshafen convicted. While he was still in prison, the Nazi judiciary initiated a new trial against Wiedmaier in 1936 and imposed a total of twelve and a half years in prison. After six years in solitary confinement, Wiedmaier was murdered in Ludwigsburg prison in 1940.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 420-423.
• Erich Matthias , Hermann Weber (Hrsg.): Resistance against National Socialism in Mannheim . Edition Quadrat, Mannheim 1984, pp. 272 ​​and 309.
• Wiedmaier, Eugene . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , pp. 1021-1022.

Web links

• Inge Möller's short biography of Wiedmaier on the page "Against forgetting: stumbling blocks for Stuttgart".