Fritz Dressel
Fritz Dressel (born June 1, 1896 in Welsberg , Upper Franconia; † May 7, 1933 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Bavarian politician of the KPD .
Life
Dressel completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter after elementary school. From 1914 to 1918 he had to do military service as a soldier in World War I , where he was deployed on the Western and Eastern Fronts. After a serious wound and a long stay in the hospital, he hired himself as an armaments worker in Munich .
In 1919 he became a member of the KPD and became its district manager for southern Bavaria. In this role he was repeatedly exposed to politically motivated persecution. In March 1921, for example, he was sentenced to two years in prison for introducing a solidarity resolution for the imprisoned Max Hoelz at a meeting in Munich . He had to serve 15 months of this sentence. After his release from prison in 1925 he was again secretary of the KPD district of southern Bavaria and at times also its head of organization. In 1927 he attended a course at the KPD Reichsparteischule in Hohnstein in Saxon Switzerland. From 1928 to 1933 he was chairman of the KPD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament .
In March 1929 he organized a protest demonstration by the Munich unemployment movement and was charged again by the Bavarian judiciary for this. After his parliamentary immunity was lifted , he was sentenced to several months in prison.
On May 3, 1933, Dressel was arrested again by the Bavarian police and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. There he was taken to the so-called detention building to be isolated from the other inmates. After several days of systematic physical and psychological abuse by the SS guards, Dressel attempted suicide by severing his wrists with his bread knife. He eventually died of the consequences of his injuries or of the abuse he continued to inflict on him after being admitted to the infirmary. Dressel's fellow inmate Hans Beimler , who was brought to the seriously injured man immediately after Dressel's attempted suicide in order to encourage him to commit suicide by showing him “how to do it”, later reported on this:
“The left arm was stretched out on the floor, three cuts across the forearm. The bread knife next to it. Everything was cleared up. The comrade was driven to his death by the unheard-of torture as it happened to me and to others, driven to lay a hand on myself. He was carelessly found by a storm leader when he was not yet bleeding to death. A prisoner, Dr. Katz , could have kept the comrade alive. But the will of the commandant was that Dressel was thrown from the station back into the cell and the doctor was forbidden to continue treating the wounded friend. Two SA paramedics are called in to simulate treatment. On the evening of May 7th, the gang of murderers tore the bandage from the wound and the comrade then bled to death for good. As a conclusion they made the music evening and got drunk to their own anesthesia. "
literature
- Hartmut Mehringer : The KPD in Bavaria 1919-1945. Prehistory, Persecution, and Resistance. In: Martin Broszat , Hartmut Mehringer (Hrsg.): Bavaria in the Nazi era. Volume V: The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance. Munich / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-486-42401-7 .
- Dressel, Fritz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Fritz Dressel in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Richardi: School of violence. 1993, p. 18.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dressel, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monguelfo |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1933 |
| Place of death | Dachau |