Walter Schmiedel

Walter Schmiedel (* 9. September 1909 in Zuschendorf ; † 2. February 1940 in Dresden ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Schmiedel worked as a harness guide on the Zusendorf manor . At the age of 18 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Red Front Fighters League .

At the end of January 1933 he founded the Beimendorf resistance group, to which Walter Hauptvogel , Alfred Jentzsch and Herbert Marschner belonged. Their main task was the illegal transport of party material from and to Czechoslovakia as well as the distribution of leaflets and other printed matter. Schmiedel was arrested for the first time in April 1933. After his release in June 1933, he continued to work illegally in the resistance group. In March 1934 Schmiedel, Marschner and Jetzsch attended meetings in the “Volkshaus” Tyssa (Czechoslovakia), where they met Walter Richter (alias “Florian”) and Arthur Thiermann . Jentzsch reported on the conditions in the concentration camp Hohnstein and the construction of an illegal party organization, divided into groups of four. In the summer of 1937 Schmiedel handed over the money he had collected to comrades of the illegal Dohna KPD party organization. In the spring of 1938 Schmiedel took part in the illegal consultation near the Lugschänke near Heidenau . Rudolf Gebauer discussed the political situation and spoke about the threat of war. In addition to Schmiedel, Arthur Schirmer from Dohna and Emil Schemmel from Heidenau were also present. In January 1939 Schmiedel was arrested again and taken to the Münchner Platz prison in Dresden . Here he was on the on February 2, 1940 Gestapo murdered.

Honors

• The Walter-Schmiedel-Weg in Pirna is named after him.

literature

• Author collective: Chronicle 1933–1945. On the history of the anti-fascist resistance struggle on the territory of the former Pirna administration . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, district leadership Pirna, committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR district committee Pirna / Sebnitz 1983, passim.
• District leadership of the SED Pirna, Commission for the Investigation of the history of the local labor movement (ed.): Memorials, monuments, memorials and Mahnstätten the labor movement and the anti-fascist resistance movement in the circle Pirna . 2nd revised edition, Pirna 1984, p. 21.