Martin Stiebel

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Martin Stiebel (born February 2, 1899 in Kitzingen ; † April 9, 1934 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German communist.

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Stiebel came from a Jewish Orthodox family from Kitzingen . His mother Miriam Goldtschmidt was a granddaughter of the head of the southern German orthodoxy Mendel Rosenbaum . As a young man, Stiebel took part in the First World War. In the 1920s, Stiebel became a functionary for the KPD in Nuremberg . He earned his living as an accountant.

In the spring of 1933 he was arrested by the Bavarian Political Police and taken to the newly built Dachau concentration camp on April 13, 1933 as part of the second prisoner transport from Nuremberg. In the camp, Stiebel was exposed to particular harassment and abuse due to his Jewish origins. He was beaten repeatedly and once forced by company commander Johann Kantschuster to lie on his back and put a toad in his throat.

On October 17, 1933, Stiebel was suspected of having taken part in the attempt by prisoners Wilhelm Franz and Joseph Altmann to smuggle records of the atrocities committed by the SS in Dachau - sewn into a cap - out of the camp and to smuggle further records into Having buried a canned food that could not be found, brought to the so-called bunker of the camp and held there in solitary confinement with the other “delinquents”. The same happened to the infirmary inmates make Delvin Katz and the inmate Albert Rosenfelder , who allegedly supported with information the company.

After Katz, Altmann and Franz were found hanged in their cells in the bunker in October, Stiebel was also found hanged in his cell on April 2 or 9, 1934. The camp administration declared his death a suicide . The autopsy of the corpse, on the other hand, showed “that the ascertained death from suffocation was caused by the action of third parties”, i. H. Stiebel had been murdered.

literature

  • Klaus Drobisch , Günther Wieland : System of the Nazi concentration camps, 1933-1939 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 9783050008233 .
  • Christian Reuther: Nothing more to say and nothing to cry about. A Jewish cemetery in Germany , 1994.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanislav Zámečník: That was Dachau , 2007, p. 59.
  2. ^ Hans Günther Richardi .: School of Violence , 1983, p. 306.
personal data
SURNAME Stiebel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzingen
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1934 or April 2, 1934 or April 8, 1934 or April 9, 1934
Place of death Dachau concentration camp