Kurt Schill
Kurt Erich Caesar Schill (* July 7, 1911 in Schiffbek ; † February 14, 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
In 1928 Kurt Schill joined the KPD together with his future wife Hilda Pfeiffer .
Together with Bruno Endrejat , Walter Stödter , Heinrich Matz , Gerd Schmarander , William Dabelstein and Adolf Wolf , they started working in a so-called group of five after 1933.
Hilda Schill repeatedly brought anti-fascist writings from the Ore Mountains in her son's pram , later a duplicating machine stood at the Schills' home, the noise of which was drowned out by the clatter of the family's own embroidery machine. The subjects of the leaflets, mostly written by Kurt Schill himself, were repeatedly reports from concentration camps and ongoing preparations for war. Before the execution of Edgar André , the group stuck for a long time risking their lives posters - two of its members were arrested in 1933 and was severely beaten.
From 1939 Schill was obliged to work for the Reichsbahn , first in Hamburg , then from 1943 in the part of the Soviet Union occupied by the Nazis .
At the end of June 1943, 79 active anti-fascists were "released" from custody because of the bombing raids on Hamburg , including Walter Bohne . At that time Kurt Schill was also at home for a bomb vacation . He met Walter Bohne through Bruno Endrejat and offered him shelter in their apartment with his wife.
On January 5, 1944, he was shot by the Gestapo when he came to a meeting with Hans Hornberger . He had been arrested the day before after a denunciation by the informer Alfons Pannek . The trail led to the Schills via Walter Bohne.
Schill was arrested on January 6th and hanged on February 14th together with Hans Hornberger as well as Gustav Bruhn and Elisabeth Bruhn in Neuengamme concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler . It was alleged against his wife that he had died in a bomb attack on the People's Court in Berlin.
Schill's urn was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the honor grove of the Hamburg resistance fighters in 1946 ( Kurt Schill pillow stone, second row from the left, fifth stone).
In Hamburg, a street named after him ( Kurt-Schill-Weg ) in the Niendorf district and a stumbling block in front of his last address at Bartelsstrasse 53 in Hamburg-Sternschanze remind of Schill.
The former Hamburg Interior Senator Ronald Schill is his grandson, the Prussian Major Ferdinand von Schill is one of his ancestors.
Web links
- Biography and portrait of Kurt Erich Caesar Schill on Hamburg.de, Stolpersteine in Hamburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schill, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schill, Kurt Erich Caesar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schiffbek |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1944 |
| Place of death | Neuengamme concentration camp |