Adam Lohr
Adam Löhr (born September 12, 1889 in Heiligenwald , † January 22, 1938 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German communist and active in workers' sports.
Life
Adam Löhr grew up in Heiligenwald as the son of a Catholic miner's family . In 1909 he went to the railroad as a gang worker . After the First World War , in which he was wounded, he became politicized and joined the trade union and the KPD . In December 1920 he became a founding member of the local KPD association in Heiligenwald. For the KPD he sat on the municipal council . He also served as a juror at the Amtsgericht Ottweiler active and as steward of the railway workers' union. He was active in sports as a wrestler in the Workers 'Athletes' Association. In 1930 he took over the technical management of the athletes' union in the Saar area, which was oriented towards communism.
From 1929/30 Löhr was a member of the revolutionary trade union opposition and their "red" association of railway workers for the Saarland . As an openly communist union member, he was dismissed in December 1932 and thus also lost his official residence. He stayed in Heiligenwald and worked as a representative. In 1933 he was sentenced to six weeks in prison for attending a prohibited gathering.
Löhr was involved in the Saar vote and was also an assessor on the day of the vote. When the result of the vote was announced, he first fled to Forbach . However, since his wife did not want to accompany him, he returned. He officially announced a retreat into private life. It is not known whether he belonged to a group of communists who met between Merchweiler and Heiligenwald after the annexation to the Third Reich . What is certain, however, is that he was arrested along with some communists after a red flag was hoisted between the two towns . His protective custody in Saarbrücken's Lerchesflur prison lasted three months. The proceedings were discontinued for lack of evidence, but Löhr was transferred to a branch of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Berlin-Lichterfelde , where he died of a hemorrhage on January 22, 1938 .
Adam Löhr was hailed as a martyr by the exile press . In the Saarland, on the other hand, his death was seen as paralyzing the resistance within Germany. On May 1, 1938, resistance groups from Lorraine smuggled a leaflet with a portrait of Löhr into Germany.
literature
- Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Gerhard Paul : The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . Dietz , Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8012-5010-5 , p. 161-164 .
- Jan Christoph Lamontain: Löhr, Adam (1889–1938), in Siegfried Mielke , Günter Morsch , trade unionists in the Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, Vol. 3. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89468-280-9 , p. 429 f.
- Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 293, 562 f. (Short biography).
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Wilhelm: Saar vote 1935: Home to the Reich! Our leaflet (February 2010), accessed on August 31, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löhr, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and active in workers' sport |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heiligenwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1938 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Lichterfelde |