Ernst Domke

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Ernst Domke (born March 1, 1882 in Winzingen , Rheinpfalz , † April 14, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , province of Hanover ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1918 to 1920 he was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament .

Live and act

After military service and wandering, the journeyman blacksmith married Ernst Domke in 1907. He settled in Wolfenbüttel and worked for many years as a foreman in a commercial enterprise. For a number of years until 1927 he headed the warehouse of the Wolfenbüttel consumer association . From 1927 on, the couple lived in Wittmar , where Ernst Domke ran the local consumer outlet until 1944.

From December 1918 to May 1920 Domke was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament. Until 1933 he was a member of the district council of the Wolfenbüttel district and of the Wittmar municipal council . Even after the SPD was banned, he kept in contact with local social democrats.

After the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Domke was arrested on August 22, 1944 as part of the Grid Action , brought to Watenstedt-Salzgitter and held there in the so-called Hallendorf labor education camp . At the end of August 1944, Domke was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, and in the spring of 1945 he came to Bergen-Belsen, where he died.

Ernst Domke was Protestant. His marriage was childless. The Ernst-Domke-Weg in Wittmar is named after him.

See also

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann : memorial plaque "The victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony areas". The victims' biographies. The President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 2007, p. 8.
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 88.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ernst Domke's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)