Sven Schacht

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Sven Schacht around 1940

Sven Schacht (born December 2, 1902 in Stockholm , † September 11, 1944 in Mauthausen ) was a German journalist.

Life

Schacht was a nephew of the later Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht .

After attending school, Schacht studied literature. 1928 doctorate he with a thesis on Schiller's Wallenstein on the Berlin stage , which he dedicated to his uncle, to Dr. phil.

In 1932 Schacht joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1,153,142) and the Sturmabteilung (SA). He also took on leadership roles in the Hitler Youth . At the same time he belonged to the "opponent" group around Harro Schulze-Boysen .

After the Reichstag fire of February 28, 1933, Schacht freed Robert Jungk , who belonged to the enemy group and who had been arrested in the context of the mass arrests of potential Nazi opponents after the fire, from custody in the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz by being there in SA- Uniform appeared and claimed that Jungk was "one of us" i. e. a member of the SA.

In May 1933, Schacht came to Frankfurt am Main as an employee of the school and youth radio . He later worked as a journalist, theater and film critic for various newspapers such as the Berliner Tageszeitung and the Berliner Börsencourier

In 1941 Schacht took part in the German occupation of Yugoslavia as a reporter for the Berliner Tageblatt . By this time at the latest, he was a staunch opponent of the Nazi system: Jungk describes him as a "late Nazi opponent" and reports that Schacht had made contact with Croatian partisans. When this became known, he was arrested by the "Wehrmacht Police " (probably the Secret Field Police ) and "cruelly executed". Eli Rothschildt explained somewhat differently in her memoir that Schacht had been active in the "intelligence service of the National Socialists" at the German embassy and had worked in this position as an "active political opponent of the Nazis" by passing on secret information to the other side, which is why he, when this became known, he was taken to a concentration camp as a traitor and killed there. His uncle had "not lifted a finger for him". Hjalmar Schacht writes in his memoirs that his nephew Sven was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp due to conflicts with the National Socialist laws and died there in 1944. Despite his position as minister, he was unable to help Sven because the party and the Gestapo observed him with suspicion at the time.

Fonts

  • Schiller's Wallenstein on the Berlin stages , (= research on literary, theater and newspaper studies No. 6) Kiel 1929. (Dissertation)
  • March on Segesta , 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Jungk: Nevertheless. My life for the future , 1993, p. 92f.
  2. ^ Eli Rothschild: Milestones , 1972, p. 208.
  3. ↑ Hjalmar Schacht: 76 Years of My Life , Bad Wörishofen 1953, p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Schacht, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1944
Place of death Mauthausen