Franz Geueke

Franz Geueke

Franz Geueke , occasionally (Johann) Franz Geuecke (* December 15, 1887 in Bracht ; † October 6, 1942 in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp ) was a German journalist and resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Life

Franz Geueke was the sixth child of Wilhelm and Bertra Geueke born. Hümmeler from Bracht . The baptism took place on December 17, 1887 in nearby Wormbach . He received his first communion on April 30, 1899 in the Wormbach parish church. After graduating from elementary school, Geueke passed the matriculation examination at the municipal high school in Essen in 1908. Franz Geueke then studied law and economics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , the University of Leipzig and the University of Breslau . There he became a member of the Catholic student associations KDSt.V. Teutonia i. Ü. and later the KDSt.V. Burgundia Leipzig in the CV . Geuecke in 1912 with the work of the miners' strike in the Ruhr coalfield at the University of Wroclaw doctorate . With his dissertation he presented the labor law situation of miners and was considered a pioneer of Christian social teaching.

During his studies Geueke was also editor at the Schlesische Volkszeitung in Breslau until 1913. In the same year he became editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Volkszeitung and the Wiesbadener Volksblatt, a daily newspaper in Wiesbaden that is closely related to the Center Party . He was also chairman of the Center Party in Wiesbaden until 1921/22. Geueke was a supporter of the Rhenish separatist movement . As a result, he was expelled from the Center Party at the meeting of the Reich Party Committee in Hagen on March 11, 1923. He later rejoined the party.

Franz Geueke married Cäcilia Puller from Cologne on August 29, 1914 in Wiesbaden , with whom he had two sons. His commitment to Christian principles led to the first repression. In 1933 he was crushed by the Nazis on the street in Wiesbaden. He was then injured in protective custody. He then emigrated abroad, but came back in 1935. Because of his journalistic resistance to National Socialism, Geueke was later arrested again and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp . From there he was taken to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp in Lower Silesia . In 1942, Franz Geueke died in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp at the age of 54. He officially died of circulatory disorders. The urn of the deceased was buried in the Wiesbaden south cemetery.

Appreciation

The Catholic Church has Dr. Franz Geuecke accepted into the German martyrology of the 20th century as a witness of faith .

Fonts

• The miners' strike in the Ruhr coal area , Breslau 1912

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Geueke  - Sources and full texts

literature

• Helmut Moll (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , 589-592.
• Helmut Moll : How Christian journalists who resisted Nazi ideology became victims of violence, Dr. Franz Geuecke (1887–1942) in specialist journalist issue 2/200 .
• Martin Schlemmer: "Los von Berlin" - the efforts towards the state of the Rhine after the First World War; Franz Geueke , Böhlau, 2007, ISBN 3-412-11106-6
• Ernst Leuniger and Helmut Moll: The Sauerlander Dr. Franz Geuecke - in an unknown martyr under Hitler's terror , p. 70. in Sauerland No. 2 June 2005, ISSN  0177-8110 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Martin Schlemmer: " Los von Berlin" - the aspirations for the Rhine state after the First World War , p. 137, Böhlau, 2007, ISBN 3-412-11106-6 ( Google Books )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Leuniger and Helmut Moll: The Sauerlander Dr. Franz Geuecke - in an unknown martyr under Hitler's terror ( memento of the original from March 4, 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. (PDF; 5.6 MB), p. 70 in Sauerland No. 2 June 2005 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Moll: How Christian journalists, resisting Nazi ideology, became victims of violence, Dr. Franz Geuecke (1887–1942)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in specialist journalist issue 2/2009, p. 22 ff.