Wilhelm Ehrlich

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Wilhelm Ehrlich (born August 19, 1894 in Glowno ; † November 9, 1923 in Munich ) was a German National Socialist and putschist . During the Hitler putsch in 1923 while trying to break through the barricades between the Feldherrnhalle and the Munich Residenz , he was shot by police officers from the Bavarian State Police .

biography

Ehrlich was born in Glowno in the Prussian province of Posen in 1894 . At 20, he enlisted in August 1914 as a student volunteer for military service in World War I and became the Landwehr Infantry Regiment. 10 of the 14th Landwehr Division in Wroclaw confiscated. In December 1914 he was transferred to the Eastern Front and fought in Russia and the Carpathian Mountains . In 1917 he came to the Western Front and saw the end of the war there in 1918. He was wounded and buried once during the war . For his military services he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class. After the end of the war he was a member of the Freikorps Roßbach . In 1920 he participated in the partial duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow with a group around Count Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff in the so-called Kapp Putsch . In the same year he became one of the first members of the NSDAP (membership number 26). In 1923 he took part in the so-called Ruhrkampf (Cologne-Godesberg line). After his arrest by the advancing French , he was able to escape from captivity. Ehrlich was a bank clerk by profession.

Circumstances of his death

On November 8, 1923, the Hitler putsch broke out . Since the putsch threatened to fail, Hitler wanted to get the population on his side with a march through Munich on November 9, 1923. The march began at the Bürgerbräukeller and was aimed at the military area command, the former Royal Bavarian War Ministry , at Ludwigstrasse 14. Ernst Röhm and his colleagues had holed up there since the day before . The second police force was supposed to stop the march and thus prevent the advance of the military area command. When they met, the putschists shot at the police, who returned fire. Four Bavarian police officers and 13 of the 15 putschists killed were fatally injured in the exchange of fire near the Feldherrnhalle; in addition, an uninvolved passer-by was killed. After the brief argument, the march broke up and the Hitler putsch was over.

Commemoration at the time of the Third Reich

Like the other putschists who were killed between 1933 and 1945, Ehrlich were honored as martyrs of the movement and at the same time instrumentalized by Nazi propaganda . At the Munich Königsplatz were after the seizure of power two Ehrentempel for the 15 killed coup (and uninvolved passers) built by the Nazis and whose remains reburied there. After troops of the US Army marched in in 1945, these structures were blown up in January 1947 and the bones were reburied.

Street names during the Third Reich (in chronological order)

During the Third Reich, numerous streets in the Reich were named after Ehrlich. After the collapse of the German Empire in 1945, all streets were renamed again:

  • In Dresden , on February 2, 1935, Planstrasse 18C was named Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse. With the council resolution of September 27, 1945, the street was renamed Basedowstrasse.
  • In Gelsenkirchen , Wilhelmstrasse was renamed Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse in 1937. On June 15, 1946, the name was again changed to Bickernstrasse.
  • In 1938, Tetzlawstrasse was renamed Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Weg in Stralsund . On June 5, 1945, the name was again renamed Wolgaster Weg, and on March 8, 1946, it was finally renamed again to the original name “Tetzlawstrasse”.
  • In Leverkusen , Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse was also named in 1938. In 1945 it was renamed Schumannstrasse.
  • Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse was named in Tübingen . After the end of the war, it was renamed Nelkenweg.
  • In Stettin , Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse was named after Ehrlich during the Third Reich. Today it is called Ulica Kwiatowa.
  • In 1939 Friedrichstrasse in Recklinghausen was renamed Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse. After the war it got its original name back.
  • In 1936 a street in the "Siedlung am Schlegelsberg" was named after Ehrlich in Jena . In 1945 the name was changed to Max-Fischer-Straße and in 1962 to Julius-Schaxel-Straße.
  • In Völklingen , Wehrden district, Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse was named in 1937. It has been called Stargasse since August 6, 1945.
  • In Wroclaw , what was then Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse is now called ul. Wynalazców.
  • In 1941, a Wilhelm-Ehrlich-Strasse was occupied in Posen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hermann Bethge: The leader and his work: core materials, central ideas and suggestions , vol. 3: A leader rises (years of combat). Zickfeldt, Osterwied (Harz) / Berlin 1928, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Information on the private online portal Stadtwiki Dresden; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Information on the private online portal Gelsenkirchner Histories Wiki; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ Information on the official online portal Stralsund Wiki by HansestadtStralsund.de; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015. ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stralsundwiki.de
  5. ^ Information on the private online portal of the Internet Initiative Leverkusen eV; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  6. ^ Information on the private online portal of the Pommerscher Greif eV association; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  7. ^ Information on the private online portal of the Encyklopedia Pomorza Zachodniego; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ Information on the private online portal of the NRZ's news portal; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ Information on the private online portal of the Siedler Schlegelsberg e. V .; Retrieved on May 26, 2015. ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.siedler-schlegelsberg.de
  10. ↑ Information on the private online portal Völklingen im Wandel; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  11. ^ Information on the private online portal Translation Service Barbara Anna Woyno; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ Information on the genealogy forum; Retrieved on: May 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Honestly, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist and putschist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Glowno
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1923
Place of death Munich