Werner Schrader (resistance fighter)

Werner Schrader (born March 7, 1895 in Rottorf ; † July 28, 1944 in Zossen ) was a teacher, officer and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 .

Life

Werner Schrader took part in the First World War as a war volunteer after training as a teacher and at the end of the war had the rank of first lieutenant . He then worked as a teacher in Wolfenbüttel at the high school in the castle . From 1927 he was the national leader of the Union of Front Soldiers (Stahlhelm) in Braunschweig , which brought him into conflict with the NSDAP after it came to power . After the unsuccessful so-called " Stahlhelm Putsch " on March 27, 1933, Schrader was removed from school service and imprisoned. From autumn 1935 he was allowed to teach again, but in November 1936 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He initially served in a branch of the Abwehr in Munich before coming to Vienna in 1938. With the beginning of the Second World War he was transferred to the headquarters of the Army High Command. There he was in 1944 with the rank of lieutenant colonel and a defense liaison officer. Among other things, Schrader secretly documented the occupation behavior of the SS in Poland .

Schrader helped cover up the find of English explosives on the premises of the OKH headquarters in Zossen by the secret field police . This was intended for an assassination attempt and was buried by Albrecht von Hagen and Joachim Kuhn .

Schrader also kept the diary of his superior, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris . This was found in April 1945 and resulted in the immediate execution of Canaris.

After the failure of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt, Schrader put an end to his life himself eight days later.

See also

• Personalities of July 20, 1944
• Resistance to National Socialism

literature

• Dieter Lent: Schrader, Hermann Werner. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, p. 545.
• Ernst August Roloff: uprising of conscience or rebellion of the disappointed. Motives of the national-conservative resistance against National Socialism, using the example of Wolfenbüttel Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader. In: Scientific journal of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. 2000, pp. 121-152.

Web links

• Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
• Harald Duin: Torture and mistreatment in the AOK building - years later, Stahlhelm leader Werner Schrader joined the resistance group. In: newsclick.de. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, March 27, 2008, accessed on January 22, 2009 (On Schrader's role in the alleged Stahlhelm Putsch in 1933 and his death on July 28, 1944). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Vohmann: Werner Schrader as a teacher , chronicle of locks eV
2. ↑ Horst Mühleisen: Hellmuth Stieff and the German resistance. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 39, 1991, Issue 3, pp. 339-377 (PDF) .
3. ^ Elisabeth Chowaniec: The "Dohnanyi Case" 1943–1945: Resistance, Military Justice, SS Arbitrariness. P. 120 ( preview on Google Books ).