Egon Nickel
Egon Nickel (born April 5, 1893 in Lübeck , † March 28, 1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German KPD politician .
The trained locksmith Nickel was a member of the Communist Party of Germany in the Lübeck citizenship , one of the smaller of the German state parliaments, for three legislative periods from 1921 to 1926 . After the election of the three spokesmen on March 3, 1924, as the leader of the third largest party, he criticized the fact that the second deputy spokesman was not Erich Klann (10 votes) from his party, but instead of his Johannes Hefti from the new property owners association at 44 was elected by 79 votes. As a consequence, he expressed mistrust of his party in the government from the start.
Nickel then became the organizational leader of the KPD in Altona , Hamburg and Bremen . The National Socialists arrested him in 1933. After three years in prison, he was taken into so-called protective custody in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 . He died in a bomb squad .
Egon-Nickel-Straße in the St. Jürgen district is named after him. A stumbling stone in front of Stitenstrasse 4 in Lübeck reminds of his fate.
literature
- Handbook of the German Communists , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nickel, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician of the KPD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1941 |
| Place of death | Sachsenhausen concentration camp |