Franz Noack

Franz Noack (born January 18, 1901 in Sperenberg near Jüterbog , † May 8, 1979 in Cottbus ) was a German local politician ( KPD / SED ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He is an honorary citizen of the city of Cottbus .

Life

Noack, the son of a Sperenberg working-class family, came to Sandow near Cottbus with his family as a child . After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship as a cloth maker .

In 1920 he was elected chairman of the Socialist Workers' Youth in Cottbus. In the same year he took part in the demonstration against the putsch of Kapp and Lüttwitz in the Sprem and the Spremberger tower , which the Reichswehr officer Buchrucker had shot at. Noack was involved in the subsequent fighting against the putschists around Cottbus. In 1921 he became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany , later he became a member of the Red Front Fighter League, in 1927 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Noack became their local group leader in the Lausitz sub-district and from 1932 was a city councilor for the communist faction in Cottbus.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Noack took part in the communist resistance. In April 1934 he was sentenced to one year imprisonment and constant police supervision by the 4th Senate of the Berlin Court of Appeal in the first Communist trial in Cottbus for resisting state power and preparing for treason and high treason. After his release from prison he worked as a textile worker at the Kleinert company in Cottbus. In 1941 he was drafted into the army for military service. He fell into British captivity , from which he returned in 1945.

In April 1946 he was elected joint chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in Cottbus together with the Social Democrat Paul Liebeck . In 1950, Noack became an employee of the SED regional leadership in Potsdam . From 1951 to 1954 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Neuruppin . Then he was district secretary of the National Front in Zossen . From 1961 to 1963 he held the office of Mayor of Sperenberg .

In 1963 he returned to Cottbus. Unable to work after a serious operation, he headed a residential party organization in Cottbus and was a member of the district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters . On October 8, 1976 he was given honorary citizenship of the city of Cottbus.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Erich Schutt, Hans-Hermann Krönert: Cottbus . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1979, p. 14.
• Horst Käberich: Cottbus. Notes from the life of Cottbus honorary citizens . Secretariat of the SED district leadership Cottbus-Stadt, Council of the City of Cottbus 1987.
• Günter Bengs: In memory of Franz Noack . In: Cottbuser Herzblatt. Chośebuska wutšobka . 17th volume, No. 5 (201), May 2009 , p. 13.
• Hans-Hermann Krönert: Franz Noack. Today, May 8th, 30 years ago, the resistance fighter, party official and honorary citizen Franz Noack died . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , May 8, 2009.
• Günter Bengs: In memory of Franz Noack: honorary citizen of the city of Cottbus . In: Cottbuser Herzblatt. Chośebuska wutšobka . 19th volume, No. 1 (221), January 2011 , p. 12.