Johann Gockel-Ehrlich Explained

Johann Gockel-Ehrlich, Hans Gockel, Gans Gansovich Gokkel' (Ганс Гансович Гоккель)
Birth Name:Johann Gockel-Ehrlich
Birth Date:8 July 1896
Birth Place:Salzburg, Austria-Hungary.
Death Place:Ukhtpechlag, USSR
Occupation:activist of the Austrian and Soviet communist movement, editor-in-chief of the atheistic magazine Neuland

Johann Gockel-Ehrlich (Hans Gockel; Russian: Ганс Гансович Гоккель; 8 July 1896 − 11 March 1938) was an Austrian communist. He was an activist in the Austrian and Soviet communist movement, and editor-in-chief of Neuland magazine.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Early life

Gockel-Ehrlich was born in Salzburg in 1896. His parents ran a paper goods store in Hallein. Gockel-Ehrlich learned bookbinding in Salzburg and Hallein.

Communist activist

In 1919, he joined the Communist Party of Austria. Gockel-Ehrlich founded several Party groups in western Austria, becoming chairman of the Communist Party of Austria in Hallein.

In 1920, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1923 Gockel-Ehrlich emigrated to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where he became the first Austrian student at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West in Moscow, which he left before the end of the one-year course.

Haeckel-Erlich then moved to Kharkiv, where he began to work as an editor in the German department of the central publishing house. In 1926 he became editor-in-chief of the atheistic magazine Neuland. This magazine was published in German and provided communist and atheist propaganda among the German-speaking population of the USSR.

Living there he received a new name, Gans Gansovich Gockel (Ганс Гансович Гоккель). He signed his writings in the USSR as Hans Gockel, publishing several books.

Gockel-Ehrlich was arrested on 10 December 1933 for participating in a German counter-revolutionary organization, which allegedly sought to overthrow the Soviet regime by force of arms. In his house, two revolvers were discovered during a search.[5] He was convicted under Article 54 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR for allegedly maintaining relations with the German consulate and supporting Hitler’s agitation. By the decision of the NKVD troika under the college of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR of 29 May 1934, he was imprisoned for 10 years in a labour camp.

Gockel-Ehrlich served his sentence in Ukhtpechlag. In the camp, he was a senior rationing officer for the 9th detachment of railway construction. While in the camp, he was arrested on 19 December 1937 and sentenced on 5 January 1938 by the “troika” under the administration of the NKVD of the Arkhangelsk Oblast under articles 58–10 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. The verdict was executed on 11 March 1938.[6] In 1937, his wife tried in vain to persuade the Austrian Legation to intervene in favor of her husband.[7]

He was rehabilitated on 26 September 1959.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Покаяние: Коми республиканский мартиролог жертв политических репрессий. Возвращенные имена: Список жертв.. visz.nlr.ru.
  2. https://gedenkbuch.rusdeutsch.ru/karta/200230 ГОККЕЛЬ ГАНС ГАНСОВИЧ
  3. https://nekropole.info/lv/Gans-Gokel Gans Gokel
  4. Web site: Российские немцы. Историография и источниковедение/ Материалы международной научной конференции. / Анапа, 4-9 сентября 1996 г, / Москва. "ГОТИКА" 1997 / Стр. 357 / Чепцов В. В. Документы советских органов государственной безопасности как источник по изучению проблемы политических репрессий против немецкого населения Украины в 20-30-е годы.
  5. Web site: DÖW - Erinnern - Biographien - Österreichische Stalin-Opfer bis 1945 - Stalin-Opfer: G - Gockel-Ehrlich, Johann. www.doew.at. 2020-01-29.
  6. Web site: Покаяние: Коми республиканский мартиролог жертв политических репрессий. Возвращенные имена: Список жертв.. visz.nlr.ru.
  7. http://www.doew.at/erinnern/biographien/oesterreichische-stalin-opfer-bis-1945/stalin-opfer-g/gockel-ehrlich-johann Gockel-Ehrlich, Johann / Österreichische Stalin-Opfer (bis 1945)
  8. Реабілітовані історією : у 27 т. Т. 1, ч. 1: Харківська область / голов. редкол.: П.Т.Тронько (голова), Ю.З.Данилюк, О.П.Рєєнт [та ін.]. – Київ–Харків : Оригінал, 2005. – 800 с./ „ГОККЕЛЬ (Гокл) Ганс Гансович народився 1897 р. у м. Зальцбург, Австрія. Німець, з робітників, освіта неповна середня, у 1919 р. член компартії Австрії, з 1920 р. член ВКП(б). Проживав у Харкові. Відповідальний редактор німецького журналу «Нойе Ланд». Заарештований 10 грудня 1933 р. за участь у німецькій к.-р. організації, яка ставила за мету повалення рад. влади збройним шляхом, зв’язок з німецьким консульством та гітлерівську агітацію (ст. 5411 КК УСРР) і ухвалою судової трійки при колегії ДПУ УСРР від 29 травня 1934 р. (статті 548, 5411 КК УСРР) позбавлений волі у ВТТ на 10 років. Термін покарання відбував в Ухтпечтабі. Розстріляний 11 березня 1938 р. за ухвалою трійки УНКВС по Архангельській обл. від 5 січня 1938 р. Реабілітований 26 вересня 1959 р“

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