Herbert Stoll

Herbert Stoll after joining the family's linen factory

Walter Herbert Stoll (born April 20, 1905 in Oberpfannenstiel ; † February 7, 1962 in Erlabrunn ) was an Erzgebirge dialect poet who was called Dr Schwammelob .

Herbert Stoll and his wife Erna in 1937 on the occasion of the wedding of his brother Heinrich

life and work

Herbert Stoll was the eldest son of Max Stoll and his wife Frieda, geb. Espig, and grew up in the former Fickel mansion. After graduating from high school in 1924, at the request of his father, he completed a commercial traineeship in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1926 he worked as an accountant in the family's linen factory. On August 3, 1926, Stoll joined the NSDAP under membership number 44169 . In 1927, while on vacation in Rhineland-Palatinate, he met the carpenter's daughter Erna Klink, whom he married on December 24, 1928 in Kübelberg . The couple initially lived in Oberpfannenstiel, where their first two children, Ingeborg and Karola, were born there in 1929 and 1934.

From 1929 Herbert Stoll began to write native songs and stories in the Ore Mountains dialect . The first thing to do was Mei Pfannestiel on September 1, 1929 , in praise of his home village. Together with the zither soloist and composer Curt Herbert Richter , he created the famous song De Postkutsch .

In 1932 Stoll acted as propaganda leader of the NSDAP local group Oberpfannenstiel, after the bankruptcy of the linen factory he worked from 1932 to 1938 in the employment office in Aue . His wife started building a house in Auerhammer in 1935 , which the family moved into a year later. In 1938 the third child, Christina, was born, in 1938 Stoll switched to the middle service at the Aue post office, and in 1939 the fourth child, Heinrich, was born.

In 1941, the wife's mother died, who subsequently traveled frequently to the Palatinate for family matters. Herbert Stoll then applied for a transfer to Kaiserslautern and was listed as a party member in Westmark . In December 1942 his wife gave birth to the twins Gudrun and Wolfgang in Kübelberg.

From April 1942 Stoll was deployed to the Waffen-SS at the SS main office in Berlin in the air raid service, in February 1945 he was dismissed and returned to the Ore Mountains. In May 1945 he was imprisoned for eleven days in Aue, and immediately after his release he fled to the Palatinate with his wife and children. On March 10, 1948, in the course of his denazification, various measures were ordered against him and Stoll was prosecuted. From 1946 he was hired as a miner in the Dechen , Frankenholz and Heinitz mines , after which he worked in the Saarland iron industry until 1949.

His war experiences, the decline of the Nazi ideology and his descent from the son of a manufacturer to a supplicant in the wife's parents' house led to severe mental disorders. Between December 10, 1950 and June 30, 1954, Herbert Stoll was admitted to the Klingenmünster Cure and Care Institution four times (two of which were at his own request) and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for a total of eleven months . In February 1951, his brother-in-law Otto Klink took over the care of the patient.

Influenced by the illness, Stoll applied for a divorce from his wife Erna from the clinic. However, the application did not meet the requirements of the principle of guilt in force in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1976 .

On June 30, 1954, he escaped from the clinic, then returned to the Ore Mountains and settled in Zwönitz , where he was first able to obtain a divorce from his first wife and then remarried. Together with his second wife Erika he founded the singing group De Zwäntzer Maad mit'n Schwammelob .

He was disabled in 1957 because of cardiac asthma . Herbert Stoll died five years later.

literature

• A brief outline of the development of Oberpfannenstiel in the Ore Mountains , 1991
• Matthias Hermann: Walter Herbert Stoll. In: Bernsbach municipal administration (ed.): Festschrift Heimatfest 775 years Bernsbach. 1237-2012. Bernsbach 2012, p. 184. DNB 1023382059
• Registry office Schönenberg-Kübelberg
• Registry office Lauter-Bernsbach
• Aue-Bad Schlema registry office
• Land register of Auerhammer
• Membership cards in the NSDAP central and Gaukartei
• Saxon State Archives, Main State Archives Dresden (NS archive of the MfS)
• Patient file 4719 of the Klingenmünster remedial and nursing home, 1950–1954