Resistance group Nehrling-Eberling
The Nehrling-Eberling resistance group was a resistance group of social democrats from Weimar . It acted during the time of National Socialism . The group was founded by Kurt Nehrling around 1933 . By breaking up the "New Beginning" resistance network , the Gestapo came very close to the resistance group. Due to the imprisonment of individual members, including the founder Nehrling, the organization had to briefly interrupt its work. It is believed that the organization existed until the end of World War II in 1945.
Members
When it was founded, the group consisted mainly of the young members of the social democratic working class youth living in the west of Weimar. Other former SPD members, such as Hans Eberling , who later became the second leader, also joined the group later.
Kurt Nehrling coordinated the group together with the former SPD sub-district secretary Heinz Eberling. They established contacts with other resistance groups and formed the group into a political circle. Other members of the group were Cläre Adler, Heinz Adler , Willy Hüttenrauch , Erna Hüttenrauch, Martin Seifert, Ilse Seifert, Helmut Reichelt, Karl Köth, Erna Köth, Hans Hellmich as well as Herbert Skubatz and Margarete Schwarz.
Nehrling was arrested in 1942 for statements that were "disruptive to the military" and murdered on December 22, 1943 in the Dachau concentration camp. In 2008, a stumbling block was set in front of his former apartment at Eckenerstraße 1 in Weimar in memory of him .
Actions and motives
Shortly after the NSDAP came to power, the first regular meeting place was a newly opened lingerie shop by Kurt Nehrling. He had previously worked in the public service and was then actually put into temporary retirement by the Nazi government for political reasons. Later the group usually met in the apartments of individual members, at garden parties or on the country road. In the latter case, a bicycle breakdown was simulated. With the replacement of the tires, notes were passed on, which were hidden there. This was considered a very popular method of inconspicuous communication between members in everyday life. As Cläre Adler later reported, the SPD also had a printing plant that it set up itself in Erfurt . An illegal newspaper was created here. In addition, a courier service was set up, the main office of which is said to have been in Ronneburg .
Discussions were held in the group, and illegal material was created and exchanged. At the time of the Total War , when Jews were increasingly working in factories in Weimar, they supported forced laborers (as Clare Adler mentions in a report).
contacts
External contacts were considered very dangerous at the time. Nevertheless, there was a connection to groups of Social Democrats in Berlin, Erfurt, Vienna, Leipzig, Nordhausen, Gera and Koblenz. Kurt Nehrling and Heinz Eberling could also be shown to have had contact with Jakob Greidiger, Franz Petrich , Johannes Kleinspehn as well as August Fröhlich and Hermann Brill .
literature
- Udo Wohlfeld, Harry Stein: Social Democrats against Hitler, The Nehrling-Eberling resistance group in Weimar. History workshop Weimar / Apolda, Weimardruck, Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-935275-03-X