Klara Schabbel

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Memorial plaque for Klara Schabbel in Conrad-Blenkle-Strasse 63 in Berlin

Clara Elisabeth Schabbel (born August 9, 1894 in Berlin ; † August 5, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist and resistance fighter ( Rote Kapelle ).

Stumbling block

Life

Klara Schabbel was the daughter of the rope maker Ludwig Schabbel and his wife Emilie Pauline nee. Borchert. The house where she was born was at Landsberger Strasse 14 (today roughly 26th place of the United Nations). Her family was social democratic. After attending primary school , she first worked as a saleswoman and later qualified as a stenographer.

Klara Schabbel organized herself into the socialist working-class youth at a young age and joined the Spartakusbund during the First World War , through whose union with the International Communists of Germany she became a founding member of the KPD and the KJVD , for whose publishing house she also in the 1920s worked for the Communist Youth International (KJI). As a result, she met Henry Robinson (1897–1944), who became her partner, the Polleiter of the KJVD in the Ruhr area . In 1923 she took part in the fighting against the occupation of the Rhineland and the Ruhr area by French troops.

In the years of the Nazi dictatorship, she worked at AEG -Werk Hennigsdorf . It belonged to the underground apparatus of the Comintern in Berlin, which had been prepared for illegality before 1933, and thus had diverse connections to resistance organizations in other countries. During the Second World War she provided solidarity aid for foreign forced laborers and informed them about the situation on the fronts.

After the occupation of Belgium and France, she had contact with Johann Wenzel .

The Bulgarian partisan Tanka Janewa , who came to Berlin in 1942 to work as a radio operator to re-establish links between the German resistance and the Soviet Union, Klara Schabbel also put in contact with the resistance network established by Saefkow , Jacob and Bästlein in Hamburg .

Because Klara Schabbel herself gave accommodation to two German communists who had come from the USSR as parachutists in June 1942 , she was wanted by the Gestapo special command "Red Chapel" and was arrested in October 1942. On January 30, 1943 was issued by the Reich Court a death sentence , which in Plotzensee enforced was.

Honors

Memorial for resistance fighters against fascism at the Hennigsdorf forest cemetery
Memorial plaque with street sign in Hennigsdorf
  • Klara-Schabbel-Strasse in Berlin-Biesdorf has been named after her since 1976 .
  • In Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , on Hanns-Eisler-Strasse, a school was named after her.
  • In Berlin-Marzahn , a school was named after her and in Koepenick a children's home.
  • A memorial plaque was put up in 1976 at Conrad-Blenkle-Strasse 63 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , the house in which Klara Schabbel lived for a long time.
  • At the confluence with Spandauer Allee there is a small memorial plaque under the street sign.
  • In Hennigsdorf ( Oberhavel district ), Clara-Schabbel-Straße is named after her (spelling of the first name: Clara!). The current elementary school in Hennigsdorf's north district was also called "Clara-Schabbel-POS" during the former GDR.
  • At the Hennigsdorf forest cemetery there is a memorial for resistance fighters against fascism, which is dedicated to Klara Schabbel, among others.
  • Since Mail 2006 a stumbling stone in front of Hennigsdorfer Clara-Schabbel-Straße 11 has reminded of her former place of residence.

literature

  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel . Results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
  • Gilles Perrault : L'Orchestre Rouge. Several editions and issues.
  • Leopold Trepper : The truth. Autobiography. Several editions and issues.
  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin (GDR) 1970, pp. 135ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birth register StA Berlin VIII No. 1652/1894 .
  2. ↑ Trepper, page 132
  3. ↑ Klara-Schabbel-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Schabbel, Klara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schabbel, Clara Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1943
Place of death Berlin