Franz Jacob

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10 + 5 Pfennig - stamp of the GDR post office 1964 in honor of Franz Jacobs
Memorial plaque at Köpenicker Strasse 76, Berlin-Mitte

Franz Jacob (born August 9, 1906 in Hamburg ; † September 18, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison ) was a German communist politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Jacob learned the trade of machinist and joined the SAJ in 1920 . Jacob joined the SPD in 1922 and the KPD in 1925 . From 1928 he worked full time for the KPD district Wasserkante and was also a member of the district management since 1931. In April 1932 he was elected as the youngest member of the Hamburg parliament for the KPD . In mid-1933 he was arrested by the Nazis in Berlin and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1940 . After his release, he organized a communist resistance group ( Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen-Gruppe ) in Hamburg in 1941, initially with Bernhard Bästlein and Robert Abshagen, and another in Berlin in 1943 (together with Bästlein and Anton Saefkow ). The latter was at times the operational management of the KPD in Germany . In April 1944, Adolf Reichwein contacted Saefkow and established a connection between the KPD and the conspirators of July 20, 1944 . With knowledge and in consultation with Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, there was a meeting of the communists with Reichwein and Julius Leber, as well as another meeting only with Reichwein. However, the Gestapo quickly found out about it, as there was a spy in the ranks of the Communists. The Nazi persecutors arrested everyone involved, including Jacob. The arrest took place on July 4, 1944. On September 18, 1944, Franz Jacob was executed in the Brandenburg prison .

Since December 1941 he was married to the resistance fighter Katharina Jacob , whom he already knew from his time at the KJVD.

Jacob's stepdaughter Ursel Hochmuth spent decades researching the resistance to National Socialism.

Honors

Ehrenhain ,
Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery
Stolperstein,
Jarresstrasse 21, Hamburg

literature

  • Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group. Berlin 1959.
  • Ursel Hochmuth : resistance organization Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen. In: Streiflichter from the Hamburg Resistance 1933–1945. Frankfurt a. M. 1969. (1980 edition ISBN 3-87682-036-7 )
  • Ursel Hochmuth: Nobody and nothing is forgotten, biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945. Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9 .
  • Annette Neumann, Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow: The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization 1942 to 1945. In: Hans Coppi , Stefan Heinz (ed.): The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers . Dietz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8 , pp. 144–157.
  • Frank Müller: Members of the Citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 1995, DNB 944894100 , pp. 47-50.
  • Katharina Jacob, Children of the Resistance, Hamburg: Resistance was not born in my cradle , Gallery of Remote Arts, Hamburg, 2020, ISBN 978-3-948478-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Jacob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. For details cf. Annette Neumann, Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow: The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization 1942 to 1945. In: Hans Coppi , Stefan Heinz (ed.): The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers . Dietz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8 , pp. 144–157, here p. 154 ff.
  2. See ibid.
  3. ^ Cushion stone for Franz Jacob (about middle of page)
  4. Stolperstein at Jarresstrasse 21
  5. Stumbling blocks for murdered MdHB final inscriptions City Hall Hamburg (PDF; 16 kB)
  6. ^ Letter of recommendation for the book by Detlef Garbe , director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial