Hermann-Ernst Schauer

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Hermann-Ernst Schauer (born January 28, 1923 in Merseburg , † December 14, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German anti-fascist who fought alongside Belarusian partisans during the Second World War and was deployed as a parachute agent by the Red Army .

Life

Schauer comes from a German national family, his father was a highly decorated officer of the First World War . He attended a humanistic grammar school in Rostock and completed the war school in Potsdam after graduating from high school .

In 1941 he became a lieutenant and platoon leader in the 60th motorized infantry division of the Wehrmacht . During the war against the Soviet Union , he was taken prisoner of war on July 11 or 12, 1941 after being wounded near Berdychiv . In the prisoner-of-war camps in Jelabuga and Oranki , his father's request when saying goodbye to "stay upright, my son" led to reflection on the criminal war of aggression of the Wehrmacht. In 1943 he participated in the founding of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD).

After a course at the Antifa school in Krasnogorsk , he decided to work behind the front in the partisan area. In March 1944 he jumped 60 kilometers north of Minsk with the parachute and was responsible with three other NKFD comrades for the reconnaissance work with the soldiers of the surrounding Wehrmacht garrisons.

After the end of the war he became a member of the KPD in 1945 and after the liberation from National Socialism worked for the Berlin radio . He then studied history and German at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1953 he worked in the State Commission for Art Affairs as a research assistant for the GDR culture minister until January 1990. In 1958 he became head of the newly created "Association of Nationally Owned Enterprises of the Film Industry", where he was significantly involved in film bans .

Fonts (selection)

  • Stay upright, my son. An autobiographical story. Trafo-Verlag: Berlin 2005 reviews
  • In the forests of Belarus. Memories of Soviet partisans and German anti-fascists.
  • The Soviet film. Henschelverlag: Berlin 1974
  • The time in close-up. Essays, memories, workshop notes / Vsevolod Pudowkin. Henschelverlag: Berlin 1983
  • Basic problems of the adaptation of literary prose by the feature film. Phil. Diss. HU Berlin 1965
  • Rehabilitation in the eyes of the world. The National Committee "Free Germany" and the "Union of German Officers" were founded 65 years ago. In: DRAFD-Info September 2008, pp. 1–5

literature

  • Willy Wolff: On the side of the Red Army. On the work of the National Committee “Free Germany” on the Soviet-German Front 1943-1945 . Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1982
  • Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of Andre Lohmar and Harald Wittstock: Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. A biographical lexicon. Working material . Berlin 2003, p. 118 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Berliner Zeitung December 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ Sabine Kebir: 102nd birthday of Bertolt Brecht: Setting the People's Chamber in greater momentum . In: The Friday of February 2, 2000
  3. ↑ "Of heroes and people ... (p. 205)" [1]
  4. ^ "Jürgen Böttcher [2]
personal data
SURNAME Schauer, Hermann-Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anti-fascist and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2011
Place of death Berlin