Alfred Hausser

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Alfred Theodor Hausser (born August 27, 1912 in Stuttgart , † August 12, 2003 in Stuttgart) was a German communist resistance fighter during the National Socialist era . In July 1936, Alfred Hausser was sentenced to a long prison term for preparing to commit high treason. From 1945 he was instrumental in building up the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA).

Life

Alfred Hausser was born into a working-class family in Stuttgart. During the First World War he spent with his grandparents in the country. After the end of the First World War and the November Revolution of 1918/19 , Hausser attended primary school in Stuttgart-Gablenberg . After passing secondary school , he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic in 1928 at Eckhardt, a company that employed a quarter of apprentices with 400 employees. When he finished his apprenticeship in 1932, Hausser was unemployed and economically dependent on his parents.

Political activity

Alfred Hausser became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1930 . He went to the Ruhr area for the illegal work of the KJVD. In 1932 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) . For them he was responsible for setting up an “anti-fascist youth organization”.

After the National Socialists came to power , Alfred Hausser worked in political agitation on behalf of the KPD in the Chemnitz district under the cover of Max from August 1934. At the end of the same year, his group was arrested for distributing leaflets against the Hitler regime. After 17 months of “treatment” in the Nazi legal apparatus, which began with “intensified interrogations”, the court proceedings against him and ten other accused were opened in Berlin before the People's Court. As the main ringleader, Hausser was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 years of loss of honor as well as police supervision for “preparing a treasonous enterprise”.

During his imprisonment in the Ludwigsburg prison, Alfred Hausser was subject to disciplinary measures such as solitary confinement and a ban on speaking. When the prisoners were registered in the armed forces in October 1939, he was excluded from “service in the Wehrmacht in peace and for permanent service in war”. During this time he was assigned to forced labor for Bosch in prison operations. He never received compensation for forced labor in the Federal Republic during his lifetime. It was not until February 2006 that his application for compensation in accordance with the EVZStiftG was approved by the responsible partner organization International Organization of Migration (IOM) and paid out to his heirs.

After having been transferred twice - in 1943 to the Celle prison and in 1945 to the Wolfenbüttel prison - and liberated by the Americans at the end of April 1945, Alfred Hausser returned to Stuttgart. In 1946, he was one of the first editors to work on the youth magazine Die Zukunft in Tübingen in the French occupation zone.

From its founding in 1948 until his retirement (1975), Alfred Hausser worked for the VVN Landesverband Württemberg-Baden. Between 1961 and 1992 he was regional chairman of this association. In 1986, Hausser founded the “Interest Group of Former Forced Laborers under the Nazi Regime”, which in 2007 became part of the work of the Federal Association of the VVN-BdA. Even in old age, he regularly accompanied the "anti-fascist city tours" organized by the Stuttgart Youth Association as a contemporary witness . Party Political activists Hausser in the 1960s in the German Peace Union , for which he in 1965 Bundestag elections unsuccessfully in the federal election district Stuttgart II candidate, and in the action of Democratic Progress , he whose also unsuccessful direct candidate in the federal election in 1969 in the federal constituency Ludwigsburg was.

Posthumous appreciation

In memory of its founding member and long-term chairman, the VVN-BdA Baden-Württemberg awards the non-endowed Alfred Hausser Prize every two years. It is awarded for work and projects on research and communication of local or regional events during the Nazi era in order to keep alive the memory of the resistance, the persecuted and the victims of fascism.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History-Online Stuttgart: Biographies Alfred Hausser.
  2. ^ Heimsheim correctional facility: History of the Ludwigsburg correctional facility.
  3. ↑ Valentin J. Hemberger: Meat from the flesh of the people?
  4. ↑ look to the right: Interest group of the former forced laborers under the Nazi regime.
  5. ↑ Hausser, Alfred . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Haack to Huys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 453 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 507 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  6. ↑ VVN-BdA Baden-Württemberg: Alfred Hausser Prize 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hausser, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hausser, Alfred Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter during the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2003
Place of death Stuttgart