Franz Fenske

Franz Fenske (born June 4, 1865 in Hanover ; † April 9, 1923 there ) was a German blacksmith , trade union leader and social democratic party functionary .

Life

Born in the royal seat of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover , Franz Fenske learned the trade of blacksmith during the founding years of the German Empire .

After the German Metalworkers Association (DMB) was founded in Frankfurt am Main on June 4, 1891 - two delegates from Hanover were involved at the time - and the DMV officially existed from August 1, 1891, the DMV became the same day - Hanover administrative office founded with 633 members at the time. In addition, Linden , formerly the starting point for industrialization in what would later become Lower Saxony and at the time an independent industrial city near Hanover, founded its own administrative office with 407 members.

After the position for a manager of the Hanover administration had been advertised in the Deutsche Metall-Arbeiter-Zeitung , Friedrich Schlegel, from Berlin , was elected for this task at a general meeting on November 23, 1901 . It was not until a good two and a half years later, when on April 1, 1904, the Hanover administrative center merged with that of Prussia's "largest industrial village" Linden - around 16 years before the two cities of Hanover and Linden were completely united - Franz Fenske , who was now living in Linden, became the elected new " authorized representative " of this now larger association.

For 19 years, Franz Fenske was to head ten people in the Hanover administrative center (including Linden) personally to lead the larger and much stronger union DMV branch.

After first ten forged the hannoversche waggonfabrik (HAWA) in Ricklingen laid down their January 23, 1905, the work to better chord - tariffs and better work organization to demand, to this closed strike after just one week and 101 Schlosser , Dreher and drill on. But HAWA simply gave the workers notice and instead recruited workers from Austria as strike breakers . But these then also took part in the strike organized by the DMV administrative office under the leadership of Franz Fenske, which in mid-February of the year also increased the woodworkers and the number of HAWA strikers to 165. The wagon factory now recruited workers from - tsarist - Russia , who also showed solidarity with the strikers in March and then got paid for their journey home by the DMV. The strike was only ended after 15 weeks, but only some of the employees were reinstated by HAWA.

But the Hanoverian public prosecutor's office covered the workers with a large number of criminal complaints , because strikes were forbidden by law at the time. Franz Fenske, as leader of the strike, was sentenced to five months in prison: four months for allegedly threatening HAWA's lawyer with beatings; Another month for allegedly calling two foremen “ lousy boys ” and thus dishonoring them.

From the following year 1906 to 1911, Franz Fenske, who was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), also held the office of assessor on the board of the SPD for the province of Hanover .

ID card for a certified member of the sanitary - column of the Red Cross , with a stamp of the Soldiers' Council in the station headquarters in Hanover , personal, among others, signed by Vice Admiral aD Oldekop
November 1918

When, at the end of the First World War, the Kiel sailors initiated the November Revolution on October 28, 1918 and the first sailors arrived in Hanover on the night of November 6th, they overpowered the guards posted at Hanover Central Station and took over the command over the city. On the morning of November 7, 1918, they made contact with the leadership of the Hanoverian SPD and formed the “Provisional Workers and Soldiers Council ” with them. It then included the member of the Reichstag , August Brey , the member of the state parliament, Robert Leinert, and also the representative of the DMV, Franz Fenske. But under the maxim "Work in the factories must not be stopped", those involved in the orders in the Hanoverian trade union house of the General German Trade Union Federation were less about the abolition of the old state authority or even about revolution , but more about the restoration of the familiar Calm and order . And so the old magistrate elected "[...] good and unanimous on November 12th [...] Robert Leinert as the new city director " - and ended the revolution in Hanover earlier than in other cities of the now dawning Weimar Republic .

In 1919 Franz Fenske - who continued to work as managing director of the DMV local group in Hanover - was elected to the board of directors of the SPD district of Hanover. Shortly before the peak of German hyperinflation , he died, surprisingly, of heart failure on April 9, 1923 .

Fenskestrasse

The Kossinastraße , laid out in 1938 in the Hanoverian district of Hainholz at the time of National Socialism , was initially named after the prehistory researcher Gustav Kossina . After the liberation from National Socialism , it was renamed Fenskestrasse in 1945 - still at the time of the British occupation zone - "[...] after the chairman of the Hanoverian metalworkers' association".

Fenskeweg

With the Fenskeweg laid out in 1973 in the Vahrenwald district , the state capital of Hanover honors one of the leading trade unionists in the city's history by giving the street its name.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Klaus Mlynek : Fenske, Franz. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 115f .; Preview over google books
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Hartmut Meine , Reinhard Schwitzer (responsible), Norbert Kandel (text): Hanover surprised. IG Metall story (s) from the Welfenstadt , ed. from IG Metall , district management Hanover and IG Metall, administrative office Hanover, Hanover: IG-Metall, 2003, passim ; downloadable ( memento of the original from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document 
3. ^ ^{A b} Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 406ff.
4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Fenskestraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 77
5. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Fenskeweg , in which: The street names ... , p. 77