Gustav Schulenburg

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Stumbling block for Schulenburg on Lammstrasse in Karlsruhe

Gustav Schulenburg (born March 7, 1874 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; died December 20, 1944 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German local politician, member of the trade union workers' movement and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

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Work until 1933

Gustav Schulenburg learned the trade of locksmith. From 1906 to 1918 he was an agent of the German Metalworkers' Union (DMV) in Strasbourg and a member of the SPD . After the First World War he had to leave France in 1918.

From 1919 to 1933 Schulenburg was the first authorized representative of the Karlsruhe local cartel of the DMV, a forerunner organization of today's IG Metall Karlsruhe and chairman of the local cartel of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). In local politics he was chairman of the Karlsruhe SPD for several years and from 1931 to 1933 SPD city council. In addition, from 1923 to 1933 he was a member of the board of directors of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Baden (LVA), from 1923 as a deputy and from 1928 as the first representative of the insured.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , Schulenburg fled first to Switzerland and then to Strasbourg, before a planned arrest in the course of the dissolution of the Free Trade Unions on May 2, 1933. The planned arrest was organized by Fritz Plattner , the regional chairman of the NSDAP for the south-west and Gau works cell manager of Baden, who was responsible for smashing the Baden trade unions. When the latter occupied the Karlsruhe Association House with SA people and Schulenburg was not present, Plattner had his wife and son temporarily taken hostage and confiscated the family's apartment and private assets in order to force him to return or to extradite himself.

Schulenburg worked again for the regional French trade unions until his retirement in 1939. In 1937 he acted as chairman of the coordination committee of German trade unionists, which was influenced by the KPD in exile in Paris . This organization, intended as an anti-fascist unified trade union, had the goal of resisting the National Socialist rule in Germany. Despite his commitment, Schulenburg resigned from the chair in 1938 because of the strong communist dominance of the organization.

After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in France he was in October 1940 in Colmar arrested. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for preparation for high treason, which he spent in a Karlsruhe prison, but was not released after serving his sentence. Instead, he was transported by the Gestapo to the Dachau concentration camp in November 1944 . Schulenburg died there on December 20, 1944, suffering from severe health and mental health problems.

Post-war honors

In the Karlsruhe regional center of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg , the former state insurance institution Baden, there is a memorial plaque. In 1991 the city of Karlsruhe named Gustav-Schulenburg-Strasse after him. On November 9, 2006, a stumbling stone was laid in Lammstrasse 15 in honor of Schulenburg .

literature

  • Christoph Wehner: The state insurance companies Baden and Württemberg in the 'Third Reich'. Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818343-0-7 , pp. 28-29 a. P. 109 (short biography)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the 'Third Reich'. Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818343-0-7 , pp. 28-29 a. P. 109
  2. ↑ Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the 'Third Reich'. Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818343-0-7 , pp. 28-29
  3. ↑ Jürgen Schuhladen-Krämer: 'With revolver held up ...'. The smashing of the free trade unions in 1933. Karlsruhe: Stadtgeschichte. In: A look into the story No. 102 from March 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schulenburg, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politicians, trade unionists and resistance fighters
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1944
Place of death Dachau concentration camp