Werner Schmiedel

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Werner Schmiedel (* 1906 in Zwota ; † July 15, 1946 in Moscow ) was a German electrical engineer and National Socialist functionary.

Life

Werner Schmiedel came from Zwota in Vogtland and was a trained electrical engineer. After initially working in Chemnitz , he was appointed department head for organizational issues in the NSDAP regional leadership in Saxony in 1934 . In 1938 he became director of the Energy and Transport Corporation Westsachsen in Zwickau and lived at Lessingstrasse 39 II.

ASW administration building in Dresden - Werner Schmiedel's office from 1943 to 1945

In the middle of the Second World War, Werner Schmiedel was appointed General Director of the Aktiengesellschaft Sächsische Werke (ASW) in Dresden in 1943 as a special representative of the NSDAP Gauleitung . Schmiedel owed his rise to the top of the ASW mainly to the Saxon NSDAP Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann , whose confidante he was. With this and the Saxon Minister of Economic Affairs Georg Lenk and the general manager of the Gauwirtschaftskammer Sachsen in Dresden, Georg Bellmann , he formed the Saxon clique .

When Dresden was occupied by the Red Army in 1945 without a fight , Werner Schmiedel and Mutschmann fled to the Ore Mountains on May 8th .

In the early evening of May 16, 1945, Oberwiesenthal's mayor, Hermann Klopfer, who had only been appointed a few days earlier, found out the whereabouts of Mutschmann and Schmiedel through an anonymous phone call and then had a remote house converted into Tellerhäuser and both arrested. On May 17, Mutschmann and Schmiedel were interrogated in Annaberg and were later brought to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow via Chemnitz . There Werner Schmiedel was sentenced to death by shooting by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Moscow on June 10, 1946 on the basis of Art. 58-11 of the RSFSR Criminal Code . The execution took place five days later, and Georg Bellmann was shot at the same time.

literature

  • Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study , Göttingen, 2015, pp. 616f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book for the district town of Zwickau and the surrounding area , 1940, II. P. 198.
  2. ^ Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study , Göttingen, 2015, p. 74.
personal data
SURNAME Schmiedel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwota
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1946
Place of death Moscow