Paul from Essen

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Memorial plaque on Haus Essenplatz 9 in Berlin-Koepenick

Paul von Essen (born March 1, 1886 in Allenstein ; died June 21, 1933 in Berlin-Koepenick ) was a German trade unionist and murder victim of the Koepenick Blood Week .

Life

Paul von Essen was the son of a railroad worker and was born in Allenstein, East Prussia. He learned the trade of a machinist . In 1904 he went to Danzig and in 1905 to Berlin. From 1907 he worked in the Oberspree cable works . There he was elected to the works council. He joined the SPD , became a member of the German Metal Workers' Association (DMV) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . Since 1919 he lived in the Elsengrund settlement . In 1932 he was dismissed from the Oberspree cable works . After his release he worked as a hunting assistant at the Landrock laundry in Köpenick. He was the secretary of the DMV in his company. As a member of the Reich Banner, he tried to mobilize the defense organization against the Papen coup d'état in 1932 and against the establishment of the Hitler dictatorship.

Early in the morning on June 21, 1933, Paul von Essen was captured by the SA . He was brought to the SA storm bar "Seidler". Detective Inspector Otto Busdorf was picked up at home for questioning, although he was off duty. He was therefore sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1950. Von Essen and Götz Kilian were tortured here and later taken to the Koepenick district court prison. Stelling was shot there. Kilian survived seriously injured. He died in 1940 as a result of the abuse. A witness reported in 1933: “The car took us to the Köpenick court prison. The place in front of the district court was full of SA men who wanted to pounce on us immediately. ”[…]“ In the meantime, 55-year-old comrade Paul von Essen had been dragged in to a tremendous howl of victory. He had been unemployed for a long time, had just come out of the hospital and was blind in one eye, a father of four children and a combatant. He was first hit in the face, then his pants were torn off and his bare body was beaten with sticks and clubs with sticks and clubs in a maddening rage until he lost consciousness. An SA leader then said: 'Well, a pig would be ready!' Comrade von Essen has meanwhile succumbed to the terrible injuries that his tormentors inflicted on him. ”“ On the night of June 22nd to 23rd, 1933, the victims of the district court prison, who were murdered there and sewn into sacks, were among them from Essen, Stelling and playing poker The Ewald truck was taken to the Wendenschloss SA restaurant. ”On July 1 and 2, 1933, the mutilated corpses of Johannes Stelling , Paul von Essen and Karl Pokern were found sewn into sacks in the Dahme . On February 12, 1934, the Central Public Prosecutor's Office put down the "proceedings in the Stelling , von Essen, Pokern und Pohle " death investigation .

Stelling and Essen were cremated in July 1933 in the Wedding crematorium (Richtstrasse) with great sympathy from their Social Democratic comrades . Essen (?) Was buried in the Baumschulenweg cemetery. SA men stole his urn.

Commemoration

  • On July 31, 1947, his former residential street in Köpenick was renamed "Essenplatz".
  • Memorial plaques on the residential building "Essenplatz 9", at "Essenplatz 1" and in "Wilhelminenhofstraße 76-77" remind of Paul von Essen.
  • A stumbling block in front of his home "Essenplatz 9" has been remembering him since December 2nd, 2013.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul von Essen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Paul von Essen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The inspector from Köpenick - Otto Busdorf. A career as a police officer from the German Empire to the GDR . (PDF) February 8, 2015, transcription; accessed on January 9, 2019
  2. ↑ See Rudolf Hirsch.
  3. ↑ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 26.
  4. ↑ What is probably meant is "stick".
  5. ↑ Braunbuch, p. 330.
  6. ↑ serial no. 1293a. Berlin Regional Court on July 19, 1950. GDR justice and Nazi crimes. Volume VI, p. 276.
  7. ↑ Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat (1960), p. 35.
  8. ↑ Stefan Hördler, p. 73.
  9. ^ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 62.
  10. ↑ Klemens Spittel.
  11. ↑ Graves of honor in Treptow-Köpenick
  12. ↑ Dining place. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  13. ↑ Cover picture: The SPD moves to Friedrichshagen. The banner bearer is Paul von Essen, who was murdered in June 1933.
personal data
SURNAME Food, Paul from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, murder victim of the Köpenick Blood Night (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Koepenick