Ernst Schneller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Schneller

German politician

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1890

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1944

Profession: teacher, politician, resistance fighter, non-Jewish victim of the Nazi regime

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ernst Schneller (8 November 1890 – 11 October 1944) was a German school teacher.
In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out.
Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas behind the Russian Revolution filtered through to the German troops.
After the war he joined first the Social Democratic Party and then, in 1920, the recently launched Communist Party of Germany.
He served as a regional member ("Landtagsabgeordneter") of parliament in the Saxon parliament ("Landtag") between 1921 and 1924, and then between 1924 and 1933 as a member ("Reichstagsabgeordneter") of the national parliament ("Reichstag").
He was arrested in 1933 and imprisoned.
Transfer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp followed in 1939.On 11 October 1944 Ernst Schneller was one of 24 German camp inmates deemed culpable of "illegal activities", taken out, and together with three French antifascists shot dead by Nazi paramilitaries (SS).