Franz Leuninger
Franz Leuninger (born December 28, 1898 in Mengerskirchen , † March 1, 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a Christian trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.
Life
During the Weimar Republic, Leuninger worked as local and district secretary of the Christian construction workers' association in Aachen , Euskirchen and later in Breslau . The trained bricklayer was involved as a member of the German Center Party in the city parliament of Wroclaw and ran for the Reichstag in March 1933 .
After the National Socialists came to power and free trade unions were broken up, he took over the construction management and management of a non-profit settlement community ("Deutsches Heim"). In this function, the staunch opponent of National Socialism later came into contact with the resistance groups around Carl Goerdeler , Ludwig Beck and the Christian trade unionist Jakob Kaiser . After a successful coup and a democratic fresh start in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet, Franz Leuninger was scheduled to serve as the Upper President of the Province of Silesia . After the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Franz Leuninger was arrested on September 26 and remained in custody for several months before he was sentenced to death by the Berlin People's Court on February 26, 1945 and on March 1, 1945 in prison in Berlin- Plötzensee was hanged .
His nephews are the Catholic clergy Herbert and Ernst Leuninger .
memory
- The Catholic Church included Franz Leuninger as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .
- The primary school Franz-Leuninger-Schule in his birthplace Mengerskirchen in the Limburg-Weilburg district bears his name.
- A street in Koblenz is named after him.
- In 1962, near the Plötzensee execution site, the Leuningerpfad was named after him.
- In Hanover , Leuningerstrasse, which was laid out in the Wettbergen district in 1984, honors the namesake.
See also
literature
- Günter letter : Leuninger, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 375 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Alois Leuninger: Franz Leuninger in memory . Self-published. Mengerskirchen 1970
- Helmut Moll: Resistance paid with death. Catholics under Hitler's terror in the Euskirchen area. In: City of Euskirchen (ed.): Euskirchen in the 20th century. 700 years of the city of Euskirchen 1302 - 2002. Weilerswist 2002. pp. 239–260
- Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , 6th, expanded and restructured edition Paderborn u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78080-5 , Volume I, 425-429.
Web links
- Website of the Leuninger family
- Franz Leuninger in memory
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- Short biography at the Evangelical Church Community of Charlottenburg-Nord
- Leuninger, Franz. Hessian biography. (As of February 17, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leuninger Path. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Leuningerstraße , in: Die Strasseennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 159
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leuninger, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists, resistance fighters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mengerskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |