Claudius Gosau
Claudius Gosau (born May 9, 1892 in Blankenmoor ; † March 6, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
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Claudius Gosau was born in Blankenmoor / Holstein in 1892 as the son of the worker Wilhelm Gosau and his wife Elsabea. After graduating from school, he worked for various construction companies in Northern Germany. From 1914 to 1917 he was a soldier in the First World War . He was seriously wounded four times as a field artilleryman.
In 1915 he married Marianne Hansen, with whom he had three children. They lived in Heide (Holstein) . In the 1920s Gosau joined the KPD there and led a music procession.
He was arrested on January 1, 1933 and imprisoned for nine months. In 1938 he moved with the family to Hamburg and lived at Woltmanstrasse 14.
At the beginning of the Second World War , his son Wilhelm Gosau, who was born on July 13, 1916 in Heide (Holstein), was arrested. On July 6, 1943, Wilhelm was murdered in Auschwitz .
Claudius Gosau was employed as a train driver in Bremen-Farge . He worked in the Gottlieb Tesch company and lived in the company's own warehouse in Tesch . Foreign workers, including from Belgium, Poland and CSR, were also housed there.
With his colleagues he had frank discussions about the course of the war and the Hitler regime. He was denounced, arrested on September 17, 1943 and transferred to Berlin. Attorney General Ernst Lautz accused him of having worked in Bremen-Farge through communist and defeatist statements that degrade the military, favored the enemies of the empire and prepared high treason. Naming the camp leader and a security guard as witnesses, he stated that Gosau tried to convince workmates at his job and in the camp that Germany could not win the war, that the news about Stalingrad was untrue and that the people did not want the war, but the "scoundrel" (= Hitler ).
The People's Court sentenced Gosau to death on February 11, 1944. On March 6, 1944, Claudius Gosau was beheaded in Brandenburg-Görden.
Commemoration
On September 8, 1946, his urn was buried in the honor grove of the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg (third row from the left, thirteenth stone).
A stumbling stone was laid in his honor in front of Gosau's last residential address, Woltmanstrasse 14 in Hamburg-Hammerbrook .
literature
- Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945. Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9
- 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. 728 (short biography).
Web links
- Biography of Claudius Gosau at stolpersteine-hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gosau, Claudius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blankenmoor |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1944 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg-Görden |