Franz Vehlow
Franz Vehlow (born October 24, 1895 in Kalk ; † December 1, 1936 outside Madrid ) was a German trade union official, KPD functionary and interbrigadist .
Life and struggle
Franz Vehlow was born on Vietorstrasse in Kalk and was the son of a factory worker. He trained as a lathe operator at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz .
First a member of the USPD and later the KPD , he became the only communist works council at KHD . Franz Vehlow was appointed by the KPD as a mandate holder for the Leipzig ADGB Congress in September 1928. After collecting signatures against the withdrawal of his mandate, he became unemployed. From March 1929 Vehlow was a member of the KPD's district leadership in the Middle Rhine district . From 1929 to 1930 he was an editor in the Königsberg “ Echo des Ostens ” and worked as an organ leader of the KPD in East Prussia . He worked as a secretary for Fritz Selbmann . Trained in 1931 at the M-school of the Comintern near Moscow , Vehlow became a member of the military-political apparatus ( intelligence service of the KPD) under the code name Louis Schuster before 1933 .
After Ernst Thalmann's arrest in Berlin at the beginning of March 1933 , he led the party-internal investigation into the circumstances of this arrest on behalf of the Central Committee of the KPD . During an illegal stay in Switzerland, Vehlow was arrested on September 25, 1936 in Zurich and expelled from the country in mid-October. In Spain political commissioner of the Thalmann battalion , he fell at the side of Hans Beimler . The circumstances and timing of her death are controversial. Franz Vehlow was buried in the Fuencarral cemetery in Madrid.
In memory of Franz Vehlow, a stumbling block was laid by Gunter Demnig in front of his former home at Weimarer Straße 16 in Cologne-Höhenberg on September 11, 2018 .
literature
- Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . With organizational charts . Herbig Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7766-2317-8
- Vehlow, Franz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- kfsr.info: A stumbling block for Franz Vehlow (alias Louis Schuster) in Cologne. (Documents on Franz Vehlow from the Werner Abel archive (AWA))
- bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de: Biographical information from the Handbook of the German Communists - Vehlow, Franz
Individual evidence
- ↑ ksta.de of September 4, 2018: Commemorating a stumbling block for a fighter , accessed on October 2, 2018
- ^ Roewer, Schäfer, Uhl: p. 22 and p. 284
- ↑ also M-Apparat, AM-Apparat (AM as in anti -military) and MP-Apparat ( entry on MP-Apparat in muenzenbergforum.de)
- ↑ Erich Günthart: The death of Hans Beimler and Louis Schuster in Ludwig Renn's "The Spanish War" . In: Journal of the SED State Research Association of the Free University of Berlin . tape 43 , 2019, ISSN 0948-9878 , p. 106-130, 110-112 ( fu-berlin.de ).
- ↑ Kölner Wochenspiegel of September 18, 2018: Commemoration of the murdered worker leader Franz Vehlow A stumbling block in memory , accessed on October 2, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vehlow, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuster, Louis (code name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary, trade union functionary and interbrigadist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalk (Cologne) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1936 |
| Place of death | Madrid |