Karl Meseberg

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Meseberg and his sailor company

Karl Meseberg (born February 11, 1891 in Halle (Saale) ; † March 13, 1919 ibid) was a member of the Halle Workers 'and Soldiers' Council.

Life

Memorial plaque for Karl Meseberg on the port railway bridge in Halle

Meseberg was a senior seaman and communist. As of November 1918, he drove in Halle - without the consent of the workers' and soldiers council  - with a 270-strong company sailors the November Revolution forward. On March 13, 1919, he was captured by the Halle Freikorps . Allegedly while on the run, he was shot and seriously injured at the port railway bridge, thrown into the Saale, where he drowned. The main culprit, presumably a medical student, escaped. The accomplices escaped to Berlin, where they joined the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division , but were arrested soon after.

An educational institution for inland navigation operators in Frohse, not far from Magdeburg, was named after Karl Meseberg .

Karl-Meseberg-Strasse in Halle is named after him. His grave is in the south cemetery in Halle (Section 11, Elective Grave 147).

literature

  • Dietrich Ernst: The murder of Karl Meseberg ; In: The current weekly newspaper , Vol. 5, 1966, pp. 39–41
  • Gertrud Kling: Karl Meseberg ; Volume 2 of From the history of the Halle workers' movement ; City administration hall of the SED
  • Werner Piechocki: Karl Meseberg, the red sailor ; In: Freiheit , Halle edition, Vol. 27; 1972, 254, p. 8/257, p. 8
  • Karl Meseberg - a fighter's life ; In: Unser Werk , Vol. 17 (1966), 20/21, pp. 4–5
  • We fight for the name "Karl Meseberg" ; FDJ-Ltg. d. VEB Maschinenfabrik, Halle / S., 1967
  • Hans-Werner Schmuhl: Halle in the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism , in: Werner Freitag, Katrin Minner, Andreas Ranft (eds.): History of the city of Halle , Volume 2: Halle in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-383-9 , pp. 237-302.

Web links

Commons : Karl Meseberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schifferschule
personal data
SURNAME Meseberg, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1919
Place of death Halle (Saale)