Franz Lehmann (resistance fighter)
Franz Lehmann (born February 17, 1899 in Schlaitz , † February 14, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German worker functionary and anti-fascist resistance fighter .
Life
Franz Lehman took part in the March fighting in central Germany in 1921 . A year later he joined the KPD . He worked in the Leunawerke and was elected to the works council there. He held the functions of Chairman of the Workers' Council and Deputy Chairman of the Works Council. Because of his political activities he was released in 1929. At the same time he was expelled from the social democratic factory workers ' association.
After seizing power in 1933, he began to work illegally. He was arrested in 1933 and taken to Lichtenburg concentration camp. At the end of 1933 he was released again. Shortly afterwards his wife, Hilde Lehmann, was arrested. Lehmann moved with his little daughter to his in-laws in Dresden- Kaditz .
In 1937 he and other Leuna workers were tried for high and state treason before the Reich Court in Leipzig . However, all of the defendants were acquitted.
In autumn 1939 he found another job as a lathe operator in the Krautwald machine factory in Dresden- Pieschen . From 1941 he and his wife kept in touch with the Schumann-Engert-Kresse Group in Leipzig, from which they also received specific orders. In 1944 they were supposed to establish a connection with Ernst Thälmann in the Bautzen prison in order to inform him about the National Committee Free Germany . It was possible to win an auxiliary sergeant in Bautzen for the task, but the Gestapo learned of the action. Hilde and Franz Lehmann were arrested at the end of 1944 and imprisoned in the remand prison on Münchner Platz . Large parts of the prison were destroyed in the air raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945. The prison administration announced on March 15, 1945 that Franz Lehmann had died in the bombing. His symbolic grave is located in the honor grove of the Heidefriedhof .
Commemoration
On July 1, 1946, Lützowstrasse in Dresden- Mickten was renamed Franz-Lehmann-Strasse. In 1968 the 41st Polytechnic High School in Dresden-Mickten received the honorary name "Franz Lehmann". In 2008 the school, which had no longer used its honorary name after the fall of the Wall, was renamed the 41st elementary school "Elbtalkinder" . A memorial stone for Lehmann is still (as of 2020) in the front yard of the school building.
Lehmann's résumé is part of the biographical collection of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime , which was founded in 1947 and dissolved in the GDR in 1953 , which is kept in the Federal Archives .
literature
- Franz Lehmann . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 47f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ File DY 55 / V 278/6/1082 - overview online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehmann, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German worker functionary and anti-fascist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlaitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |