Hermann Drumm

Stumbling stone by Hermann Drumm

Hermann Drumm (born January 5, 1909 in Wiebelskirchen , † September 1, 1937 in Belchite ) was a German social democrat and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War .

Life

Hermann Drumm grew up as the son of a miner's family in Wiebelskirchen. In 1925 he became a worker at the Kohlwald mine and joined the miners 'association and the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). He began to rise quickly and became chairman of the SAJ and then chairman of the local SPD branch in Wiebelskirchen. At the age of 23 he became the pay office manager of the miners' association and was thus part of the combat command of the Iron Front . In April 1933 he married Martha Decker .

At the time of the Saar referendum , he was involved in the united front and radicalized. After the result of the vote was announced on January 15, 1935, Hermann Drumm was threatened with death in a torchlight procession by the German front . An attempt was made to break into his home that night, but it failed. The next day he fled the Saar area with his wife and set off via Carcassonne , Blaye and the Puy-de-Dôme department to Auzat-la-Combelle . There he worked as a miner for some time until he volunteered for the Spanish Civil War. There he was wounded on February 27, 1937 on the Rio Jarama . He then attended the officers' school in Pozo Rubio and returned to the front as a lieutenant in late summer 1937 . He fell on September 1, 1937 at the Battle of Belchite .

His son Hermann was born on December 5, 1937.

literature

• Max Hewer: From the Saar to the Ebro. Saarland as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. 2nd, corrected edition, Blattlausverlag, Saarbrücken 2016, ISBN 978-3-945996-08-9 .
• Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Gerhard Paul : The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . Dietz, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8012-5010-5 , p. 55-60 .