Paul Zobel

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Paul Zobel (born March 13, 1891 in Berlin , † March 22, 1945 in Dachau ) was a German editor , communist and resistance fighter .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at Berliner Strasse 79 in Berlin-Pankow

Paul Zobel was the son of a coachman. After attending elementary school , he worked as a delivery boy for a publishing house in order to finance his own training at a commercial school. This qualified him to such an extent that he was employed as an editor and manufacturer for this publisher .

During the First World War , he was used as a medic in the war against Russia for four years . Through the experience he gained there, after his return to Berlin from 1919 on, he became involved in revolutionary organizations and became a member of the KPD .

Paul Zobel has been interested in athletics since his earliest childhood . He was active in the 1906 Workers Sports Club spruce and engaged in the umbrella organization, the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association . There he built up the football department . He was a spokesman for the left wing of the ATSB. After 1919 he helped organize workers 'sport in Berlin and became chairman of the workers' sport cartel in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and head of the Märkische Spielvereinigung. From autumn 1923 to summer 1926 he worked as a manufacturer and manager of the KPD publishing house, Vereinigung Internationaler Verlagsanstalten , and then worked in the sports policy department of the KPD Central Committee . He became a major theorist and politician of the international red sports movement . In 1924 he was a delegate to the III. World Congress of Red Sports International and was elected in their plenary.

In November 1927 he received a prison sentence from the political judiciary of the Weimar Republic for “publishing revolutionary literature” . As a convict for political reasons, he received imprisonment in a fortress , which he had to spend in Gollnow until he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the KPD in 1928 . As a representative of constituency 2 (Berlin), he was a member of parliament until the end of the fourth legislative period in 1933.

On the night of the Reichstag fire in 1933, he was arrested and taken into “ protective custody ” in Sonnenburg concentration camp until the end of the year . After his release, he participated in the production of illegal leaflets and brochures. Through Hermann Tops , he was in contact with the resistance organization headed by Robert Uhrig and, after their arrest, through Bernhard Almstadt, with the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization . In July 1944, this was by Gestapo - spies betrayed and Paul Zobel was arrested. He died in the Dachau concentration camp as a result of the torture he suffered by German police officers.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, page 457 ff.
  • Red athletes in the anti-fascist resistance. Volume 1. Biographical information about Ernst Grube, Bernhard Almstadt, Werner Seelenbinder, Fritz Lesch and Paul Zobel. Federal Executive of the DTSB of the GDR (publisher), Berlin 1978.
  • Zobel, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928, p. 605.

Honors

  • In Berlin-Lichtenberg , Paul-Zobel-Strasse was named after him.
  • In Berlin-Pankow, Hermann-Hesse-Strasse, there is the Paul-Zobel-Sportplatz, venue of the VfB Einheit zu Pankow, a memorial plaque is attached to the building of the office.
  • For many decades the Polytechnische Oberschule (POS) in Thulestrasse in Berlin-Pankow (today Trelleborg School) bore his name.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Small encyclopedia of physical culture and sport . Verlag Enzyklopädie Leipzig, Leipzig 1960, p. 602 .
  2. ^ Paul-Zobel-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Zobel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1945
Place of death Dachau