August Hey

August Hey (born May 10, 1897 in Dudweiler ; † February 5, 1978 there ) was a Saarland politician ( KPD ).

The miner's son initially earned his living as a henchman and miner. In 1917 he was drafted into a sailors division for military service. In 1918 he took part in the uprising in the Bay of Kotor , described by Friedrich Wolf in the drama The Sailors of Cattaro .

Back in the Saar area , he became a member of the USPD in 1919 and a member of the KPD in 1920. He was a member of the Saar Regional Council in the third and fourth electoral periods (1928–1935). From 1930 Hey also headed the Saarland Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition .

In the run-up to the Saar referendum in 1935, he campaigned against the reintegration of the Saar region into the German Reich. After the vast majority of Saar residents voted for a return “ home to the Reich ” on January 13, 1935 , he emigrated to France like many opponents of reintegration . There he worked as a miner until the beginning of the war.

He was interned in 1939 and finally arrested in 1941. The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court sentenced him to two years and four months in prison, which he served in Ludwigsburg. He was then interned in Dachau concentration camp until 1945 .

After the end of the war he was appointed mayor of Dudweiler, and he was also active in the Saarland state association of the KPD. In July 1947 he was expelled from Saarland for political reasons, whereupon he became involved with the KPD Baden .

At the end of the 1950s he was a member of the Saarbrücken-Land district council. In September 1961 he tried to run as an independent candidate in the federal elections, but was not admitted. As a result, he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on probation by the Saarbrücken regional court in 1964 . In 1968 he became a member of the DKP .

literature

• Hey August . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .