Hermann Stickelmann
Hermann Stickelmann (born September 22, 1893 in Aachen , † January 24, 1949 in Lichtenberg) played a dominant role in Frankfurt am Main as a 25-year-old in the November Revolution alongside Wilhelm Grönke .
Life
After attending elementary school, he learned to be a mechanic. Before the First World War he worked as a racing driver and member of an acrobatic group. Then followed an eventful career as a soldier: in the cavalry, in the armaments industry and in various squadrons. During the First World War he was a naval aviator , flew over the Suez Canal and was deployed in Flanders. Allegedly he was sentenced to death for various crimes, but was released again in the 1918 revolution. In 1918/19 he became a member of the Frankfurt Workers 'and Soldiers' Council and head of Department IV (field service) of the local naval security service.
Stickelmann was charged with grievous bodily harm in office. One day after a reactionary, anti-French demonstration on June 17, 1919 in front of the Carlton Hotel, he had clashed with a Swiss guest who was wearing a monocle. Stickelmann knocked the monocle out of the Swiss guest's face and tried to put an ice bucket over his head. He was also accused of grossly mistreating black market car tire suppliers to confess and to surrender the stolen tires.
In 1927 he was tried again in Leipzig and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The charge was: treason in unity with deprivation of liberty in office and bribery . Stickelmann was accused of kidnapping Germans who wanted to get hold of the French during his work in the Marinesicherheitskommando and of taking them across the border for a bounty , where said people were mistreated. The fact that Stickelmann received a bounty from the French could not be proven, this would have complied with the offense of bribery in office. It is correct that the said Germans, who previously had contact with the illegal German military secret service and wanted to continue to occupied Alsace (where they should not have been allowed to stay), came from Stickelmann and Grönke in the forest near Goldstein, along with the suitcase found with the Germans secret papers handed over to the French.
The process should never be restarted. Shortly after Stickelmann had achieved an amnesty, the National Socialists came to power. After serving his prison sentence, Hermann Stickelmann was interned in the Emsland moor camps and finally transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Stickelmann received the prisoner number 093071 there. He was used as a forced laborer at DEMAG and was a member of the secret resistance in the Lieberose subcamp . He played a decisive role in preventing the liquidation of all camp inmates on April 27, 1945.
Hermann Stickelmann married shortly after his liberation and moved to Lichtenberg near Berlin. He died on January 24, 1949 of a serious heart condition caused by his long imprisonment.
His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists (urn collecting grave by the large porphyry memorial plaque on the right side of the curtain wall) in Berlin's Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.
literature
- Franz Neuland: The sailors of Frankfurt. A chapter of the November Revolution 1918/19. Frankfurt am Main 1991.
- Erhard Lucas: Frankfurt under the rule of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council 1918/19. Frankfurt am Main 1969.
- Jakob Altmaier: Frankfurt Revolution Days. Frankfurt am Main 1919.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 571.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stickelmann, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Head of the Marine Security Service in Frankfurt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1949 |
| Place of death | Lichtenberg |