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By: Jörg Domke
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Heinrich Mayer with a Hörlkofen election poster from 1932. © jödo
An exhibition at the high school entitled “Forgotten Resistance” attracted a lot of attention 25 years ago.
The Markt Schwaben Local History Museum now shows parts of it.
Markt Schwaben –
The six exhibitions under the title “Forgotten Resistance”, which were organized under the leadership of the local Franz-Marc-Gymnasium (and the elective politics course located there) in collaboration with the Weiße- Rose Foundation and supported by the State Center for Civic Education.
The teacher in charge, Heinrich Mayer, is now 75 and has long since retired.
His passion for coming to terms with recent history surrounding the Nazi era remains with him to this day.
Mayer and his elementary school teacher colleague Bernd Romir, who has also long since retired, have now jointly developed the idea of commemorating the high school's exhibition, which was held for the first time in 2007, as a contribution to coming to terms with the National Socialist past in Markt Schwaben and the surrounding area.
Of the 40 posters created at the time, each of which portrayed one or more persecutors of the Nazi regime, eight have now been selected.
They will be shown again from next Sunday, March 3rd, until autumn during the local museum's usual opening hours (see schedule at the end).
Four deal with individual fates, four deal with the external circumstances of the so-called Poinger Death Procession.
This refers to the events around April 27, 1945.
On that day there was a prisoner transport train at the Poinger train station that was traveling from Mühldorf to Seeshaupt.
“The locomotive,” our newspaper wrote in April two years ago, “was defective, and many of the emaciated inmates tried to escape because of this.
According to reports, at least 50 people were shot by SS henchmen and over 200 were injured and forced back onto the train, which continued its journey.
In 2010, the community of Poing erected a memorial (designed by local artist Karl Orth) on the south side of the S-Bahn station, and since then a commemorative event has taken place every year on the anniversary.”
Heinrich Mayer was the leading teacher at the time
The extensive research work for the 2005 exhibition series had begun, some of which took place under difficult conditions. The background was: From the mid-1990s onwards, the FMG had the opportunity to set up an elective course in politics.
Then, as now, it was a voluntary offer to students from the eighth grade onwards, said Mayer during an on-site visit to the Swabian Local History Museum recently.
What was astonishing was that the course was always attended by ten to 15 young people.
And that, according to Mayer, even though the meetings always took place on Fridays after class and therefore almost directly before the upcoming weekend.
“Everyone was really interested in the topic,” said the retiree.
As a contemporary historian, Mayer later had an interest in shedding light on the market town's Nazi era together with the young people.
There is still a need for this today, said Mayer, pointing out that the information column on the market square, for example, only mentions the period between 1933 and 1945 in a half-sentence.
The results of her research ultimately appeared in six exhibitions.
They not only remained in school, but were also shown, for example, in Poing, Erding or in the Munich State Archives, where a lot of source work took place.
Heinrich Mayer adds that the Institute for Contemporary History, a state institution, carried out scientific preparatory work.
There, lists of names of victims of National Socialism were created by location.
Individual fates and the Poinger refugee train are topics in Markt Schwaben
We should therefore remember “people from different institutions and social areas such as:
B. military, church communities, politics, clubs, companies that openly or covertly opposed the National Socialist system of rule, openly expressed their rejection of the system, provided help to opponents or those being persecuted and/or were themselves exposed to persecution,” as it says on the website of the Franz-Marc-Gymnasium.
It's about, among other things, egal Geisberger or Albert Dorrer, but also Rudolf Kastl.
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There, on the school homepage, there is also the following sentence: “It is intended to encourage young people to have moral courage”.
An idea that museum director Bernd Romir likes to take up in a conversation with EZ with reference to the recent demonstrations for democracy and diversity in Germany: “We approach the issue practically from the other side and show what can happen if you don't is vigilant.”
Opening next Sunday afternoon
Even if the exhibition research itself is almost history, the topic itself has not lost interest among scientists to this day, says Mayer.
He is currently doing a doctoral thesis in Leipzig that deals with the end of the war in our region with a focus on the death train.
Poing also appears explicitly in the work, says Mayer.
By the way, we now know that the train in question also had a stop in Markt Schwaben and that concentration camp prisoners there also used the opportunity to escape.
According to the ex-high school teacher, the community of Forst-inning, which has always had a reputation as a nest of resistance, played a special role at the time.
It is no coincidence that the political community once decided to purchase one of the 40 plaques and hang it permanently in the town hall.
Events
The Markt Schwaben Local History Museum can open the supplement to “The Oldest Clubs, Part 3” on the first Sunday in March, March 3rd, from 2 p.m.!
Fruit growing and beekeeping club boards are ready to be assembled, it is said.
The special exhibition “Forgotten Resistance”, created by FMG students over ten years ago, will also open this Sunday from 3 p.m.
The museum is open as usual from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The entire exhibition can also be seen online on the high school's homepage at https://franz-marc-gymnasium.info/leben/arbeitskreis-politik/.
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