Franz Nause

Franz Nause (born February 15, 1903 in Achtum , † March 20, 1943 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German social democratic resistance fighter .

Life

youth

Franz Nause last lived at Kesselstrasse 19 (brown roof tiles) in Limmer near the Lindener Hafen .

Stumbling block for Franz Nause in front of Kesselstrasse 19

Franz Nause attended elementary school in Lenthe and Linden and then completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith. In 1919 he joined the Socialist Workers 'Youth and the Factory Workers' Association , and in 1921 also the SPD . In the same year, from 1921 (until 1932), he was hired as a worker in the " Hannoversche Gummiwerke Excelsior ". In 1931 he joined the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . His main area of ​​activity was in Limmer , where he was the district cashier of the SPD before 1933. In the same year he got engaged to Auguste Breitzke .

Socialist front

Franz Nause became the closest collaborator and confidante of Werner Blumenberg during the establishment of the social democratic resistance organization Sozialistische Front (SF) : While Blumenberg mainly wrote the Sozialistische Blätter (SB), Nause - together with Willy Wendt - was technical and organizational head of the SB, especially but mainly responsible for the production and distribution of the leaves. Nause was arrested for the first time in mid-June 1933, but released a few days later. On June 30, 1936, Nause was arrested again. The People's Court sentenced him on September 29, 1936 to 10 years in prison . In the Brandenburg-Görden prison , he is said to have died on March 20, 1943, allegedly of pulmonary and larynx tuberculosis.

Honors

• An urn grave was laid out at the Ricklingen city cemetery as an honorary grave for Franz Nause (Department U43, No. 29)
• The street that was laid out around 1900 as a garden path in Limmer was renamed Franz-Nause-Straße in 1950 .
• On March 22, 2010, a stumbling block was laid in front of the house at Kesselstrasse 19 in Hanover .

literature

• B. Rabe: The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936. 1984.
• K. Theilen (arr.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933–1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover. 2000.
• Klaus Mlynek : Nause, Franz. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 268f. u. ö .; online through google books
• Klaus Mlynek: Nause, Franz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 463.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Excelsior. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 169f.
2. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Breitzke, Auguste. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 82f.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Socialist Front. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 573
4. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Nause, Franz (see literature)
5. ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächtler, Klaus Helmer (ed.), Ella Weber (text): Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen. [with history, development, overview plan] Ed. by the Green Area Office Hanover, July 2002, online  ( 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. as a PDF document , p. 30.  
6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wilhelm-Bluhm-Strasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 81.
7. ↑ http://www.quartier-ev.de/wsc72331519/dokumente/FranzNauseFaltblatt.pdf