Kurt Wabbel

Memorial stone for Kurt Wabbel in Halle (Saale)

Kurt Wabbel (born March 13, 1901 in Wörmlitz , Saalkreis ; † May 26, 1944 in Wernigerode ) was a trade union official and local politician of the KPD in Halle (Saale) .

Kurt Wabbel, a working-class athlete ( heavy athletics and soccer ) who has been active since his youth , was involved in both work and sport in the trade union and in the KPD , for which he was city councilor in Halle (Saale) from 1929 to 1933 . He was arrested in March 1933 and was in the Lichtenburg concentration camp in Prettin from October 1933 to March 1934 . Because of “communist activities” he was a prisoner there again from April 1937 and was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in the same year . In March 1943, he came to the satellite camp of Buchenwald Wernigerode. There he died on May 26, 1944 under circumstances that have not yet been clarified.

In the GDR it was alleged that Wabbel was murdered by the SS . The historian Frank Hirschinger , on the other hand, described that the Ministry for State Security knew as early as 1953 that Wabbel had collaborated with the SS in the Buchenwald concentration camp and allegedly assaulted young Polish prisoners. According to the files, he is said to have either committed suicide or was killed by fellow inmates.

The football stadium built in Halle in 1921 bore the name of this Halle worker athlete until it was demolished in 2010.

A new stadium called Erdgas Sportpark was built on the site of the former Kurt Wabbel Stadium and was inaugurated on September 20, 2011 with a friendly against HSV . The name of the stadium came about because Verbundnetz Gas AG from Leipzig is the main sponsor of the new stadium.

At Johannesplatz in Halle (Saale) there is a memorial stone for Kurt Wabbel, which has been classified as a cultural monument .

Web links

Commons : Kurt Wabbel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Small encyclopedia of physical culture and sport . Verlag Enzyklopädie Leipzig, Leipzig 1960, p. 601 .
↑ Joachim Scherrieble (ed.). Edited by Daniel Bohse and Alexander Sperk: “Der Rote Ochse, Halle (Saale). Political Justice 1933 - 1945, 1945 - 1989 ”(catalog for the permanent exhibitions). Links Verlag, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-86153-480-8
↑ Frank Hirschinger: “Forgery and instrumentalization of anti-fascist biographies. The example of Halle / Saale 1945 - 2005 ”. V and R Unipress, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-89971-354-1

personal data
SURNAME	Wabbel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German trade union functionary and city councilor of the KPD
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wörmlitz near Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1944
Place of death	Wernigerode

[1] Small encyclopedia of physical culture and sport . Verlag Enzyklopädie Leipzig, Leipzig 1960, p. 601 .

[2] Joachim Scherrieble (ed.). Edited by Daniel Bohse and Alexander Sperk: “Der Rote Ochse, Halle (Saale). Political Justice 1933 - 1945, 1945 - 1989 ”(catalog for the permanent exhibitions). Links Verlag, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-86153-480-8

[3] Frank Hirschinger: “Forgery and instrumentalization of anti-fascist biographies. The example of Halle / Saale 1945 - 2005 ”. V and R Unipress, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-89971-354-1