Kurt Neubert (resistance fighter)

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Portrait of Kurt Neubert before 1920

Kurt Neubert (* 10. October 1878 in Sömmerda ; † 24. March 1920 in Sömmerda) was a German veterinarian , USPD official and social democratic fighters to defend the Republic against Reichswehr - putschists

Life

Kurt Neubert was born into the family of the businessman Max Neubert and his wife Anna, née Kampe. The father was an auctioneer and director of the Sömmerdaer Vereinsbank. Kurt attended Donndorf Monastery School from 1890 to 1892 and then from 1892 to 1896 Schulpforta . After studying veterinary medicine in Dresden and completing his doctorate , he established himself as a practical veterinarian in Sömmerda. Politically, he initially orientated himself towards the social democratic party. But then he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and became chairman of the local group in Sömmerda. Together with his wife he led political disputes e.g. B. with the mayor Hohendahl.

When the Reichswehr soldiers marched into Sömmerda in March 1920, they encountered resistance from the workers who had formed a strike leadership to defend the republic. The latter sent Neubert as a parliamentarian to the putschists, who arrested him, severely abused him and finally shot him “while on the run”.

Kurt Neubert had been married to Elisabeth Henze from Artern , a teacher at the Protestant school in Sömmerda , since 1911 .

memory

  • In Sömmerda the sports park was named "Kurt-Neubert-Sportpark" during the GDR era.
  • A memorial to those who fell in March was set up in the Ratskeller in Sömmerda . After 1990 the memorial was removed and the remains (a bust of Neubert and several clay tablets) were stored in a lapidarium .
  • In 1969, a veterinary engineering school was founded in Beichlingen that bore his name. In 1990 the school was closed and liquidated.

literature

  • Gumbel, Emil Julius: Four years of political murder , Berlin 1922, p. 56ff. and Hammer, Free State of Gotha, p. 58f.
  • Anna Dorothea Miethe: Memorials. Labor movement. Anti-fascist resistance. Building Socialism , Leipzig-Jena-Berlin 1974, p. 349

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition boards in the Sömmerda Historical Archive
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, USPD functionary and social democratic fighter in defense of the republic against Reichswehr putschists
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Sömmerda
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1920
Place of death Sömmerda