Waldemar Schapiro
Waldemar Schapiro (actually Chaim Wulf Schapiro ), (born June 26, 1893 in Ropis , Russia, † July 15, 1933 in Erfurt ) was a merchant and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
He grew up in a Jewish merchant family in the Russian Empire . Before the First World War he began studying medicine in Heidelberg . When the war broke out, he was interned as a citizen of a hostile state .
After the war he married Lucia Reinhardt from Erfurt and opened a paper and office supplies store . In 1928 the family's apartment was at Thomasstrasse 57. Without being a member himself, he supported the KPD in Erfurt with the illegal publication of the forbidden “ Thuringian Volksblatt ” by delivering paper and wax matrices .
In April 1933 he was arrested, interned in the Feldstrasse protective custody camp and, after cruel torture by the notorious SA storm Laudien , killed on July 15, 1933 in the Steigerwald , on the same garden property as Heinz Sendhoff . The body was found by strollers and handed over to the morgue . Schapiro was the first Jewish victim of National Socialism in Erfurt.
Honors
- 1945 naming of Schapirostraße in Johannesvorstadt
- 1946 Urn memorial stone on the Victim of Fascism Memorial I.
- 1950 (approx.) Protective custody camp memorial plaque, Feldstrasse 18
- 1984 first name plaque (from left) on the victim of the fascism memorial II
- 1988 anti-fascist memorial plaque, Petersberg
literature
- Ulf Annel: The Schapiro memorial plaque in: 111 places in and around Erfurt that you have to see No. 91 , Emons Verlag , Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-96041-153-6
- Sascha Müntzel: Arbitrariness and excess of violence: The "special proceedings " of the Erfurt SA 1933 in: Communications of the Association for the history and antiquity of Erfurt , 72nd issue, Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2011, p. 164 ff
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schapiro, Waldemar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schapiro, Chaim Wulf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ropis (Russia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1933 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |