He spent the next couple of years as an itinerant laborer, and finally enlisted for a one-year stint in the new Nazi government's labor corps.Īfter his government service had ended, in 1934, Spehl managed to find a job with the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen. By the time Spehl was ready to go out on his own, however, the Great Depression had hit Germany and like millions of other Germans, he could not find steady employment. Spehl spent the next three years learning the saddler's trade. When he was 18 he left the farm and took an apprenticeship with a saddler and upholsterer named Karl Gratwohl in the village of Markdorf, near Friedrichshafen. His mother died when he was young, his father later remarried, and eventually Spehl was part of a family of nine children. Location at time of fire: Mooring shelf in bowĮrich Spehl was born on December 5th, 1910 on a small family farm in the Black Forest village of Göschweiler.
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