Heinrich Staircase

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Julius Paul Heinrich Stiege (born March 1, 1895 in Berlin , † August 7, 1968 in Vorderhindelang ) was a German naval officer and involved in the murder of Karl Liebknecht .

Life

Heinrich Stiege was the only son of four children of Rear Admiral Oscar Stiege (1852-1932) and his wife Pauline Agnes Clara, née Bunsen (1862-1942). In 1913 he joined the Imperial Navy , where he received the rank of lieutenant in the sea in 1915 . At the end of the First World War he had the rank of lieutenant in the sea and the position of officer on watch on U-cruisers.

In 1919 Stiege was a member of the naval officer squadron of Lieutenant Horst von Pflugk-Harttung , a sub-formation of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division , and a staff officer there. On January 15, 1919, he trained together with Pflugk-Harttung himself, Oberleutnant zur See Ulrich von Ritgen and Lieutenant d. R. Rudolf Liepmann took over the command that carried out the shooting of Karl Liebknecht in the Berlin zoo on the orders of Waldemar Pabst .

Like the other parties involved in the killing of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, Stiege had to appear before a field war tribunal of the Guards Cavalry Rifle Division from May 8 to 14, 1919 , but was not found guilty of any offense.

Stiege left the Navy on December 27, 1919 and was promoted to lieutenant in the sea and became a merchant in Hamburg . In 1925 he accepted a position at Degesch and in 1929 became its managing director . In 1936 he moved to the parent company Degussa , where he held the post of head of the public relations department .

At the beginning of World War II in 1939, Stiege was reactivated as a naval officer and received the rank of lieutenant captain ; In 1944 he was promoted to Korvettenkapitän , although Stiege had a Jewish grandparent and was considered a quarter Jew according to the Nuremberg Laws .

After the end of the war, Stiege had to justify his involvement in the killing of Liebknecht in 1946 as part of a panel proceedings . Based on the files of the field war trial from 1919, which were brought in for this purpose, no guilt was again found. Stiege returned to Degussa, where he was now appointed director . In 1963 he left the company and spent the last years of his life in Vorderhindelang .

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  1. ↑ Julius Paul Heinrich Stiege , genealogical data sheet in the portal heidermanns.net , accessed on April 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Staircase, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1968
Place of death Fore-hindquarters