Ewald Stübler

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Ewald Stübler (born August 13, 1881 in Gera ; † January 5, 1945 in Weimar ) was a non-party resistance fighter against National Socialism who was executed with the guillotine in the court of the Weimar Regional Court .

Life

He attended public school of Gera and the middle school in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains . There he learned the trade of a merchant in an iron and arms shop . In 1903 Stübler married. From this marriage a son emerged who ran a pharmacy in Ebeleben . Stübler's wife died in 1941. Until 1923 he worked in various places, most recently in Suhl as a commercial clerk. From 1923 to 1928 he ran his own arms shop in Suhl. Afterwards he worked again as an employee in the arms factory Albert Sühn.

He sympathized with the SPD until 1932 , from then on he voted for the KPD . Since 1934 he was a member of the German Labor Front (DAF). Regular meetings with resistance fighters such as Guido Heym , Walter Köhler and Emil Eckstein strengthened his conviction to fight against fascism and war . He joined Guido Heym's resistance group and intensified his anti-fascist activities after the attack on the Soviet Union . Until 1942 he constantly listened to the radio news from London , Beromünster and Moscow and distributed it among confidants. In 1940 he met like-minded anti - fascists while taking a cure from his wife in Bad Liebenstein . He informed Hitler's opponents in Suhl about the conversations with them in the “Fuchsbau” inn. At numerous meetings he made the military progress of the Allied troops against Hitler's Germany known. With Emil Eckstein and Franz Albrecht he discussed illegal work. In addition to the “Fuchsbau”, Stübler was also involved in conspiratorial activities in the inns “Zentralhalle”, “Burghof” and “Grünen Baum” . The landlord from the “Fuchsbau” Emil Otto had made a back exit usable, through which they could leave the inn unnoticed in the event of impending danger from the police or the Gestapo . During the mass arrest on September 3, 1943, Stübler was also taken into Gestapo custody with the help of the informer Fritz Klett . On 30 November 1944 it convicted People's Court in Rudolstadt with his family Judicial Georg Ernst Diescher , Judge Herbert Hilmar Robert Nötzold , SA Obergruppenführer Heinz Späing and Kurt Guenther , Oberreich director Benno Kuhr and Landgerichtsdirektor Paul Brenner for treason and sedition to lifelong loss of honor and Death penalty .

memory

  • His name and that of the other resistance fighter are carved on the memorial at the former settlers' restaurant on Friedberg.
  • On November 12, 2008, a stumbling stone was placed in his memory in front of his last residence at Suhler Wertherstrasse 1 .

literature

  • Gerd Kaiser (Ed.): Upright and strong , in it Dagmar Schmidt with a memory of Ewald Stübler, p. 121ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in the GDR (ed.), Memorials. Labor movement. Anti-fascist resistance. Building Socialism, Leipzig 1974, p. 385
personal data
SURNAME Stübler, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1945
Place of death Weimar