Franz Vogt (trade unionist)
Franz Vogt (born October 9, 1899 in Karschin , district of Grünberg in Silesia , † May 14, 1940 in Amsterdam ) was a German trade unionist , SPD - politician and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Vogt was called up for military service in June 1917, took part in the First World War as a soldier and was deployed on the Eastern Front. After being wounded, he was taken prisoner by Russia. Subsequently, Vogt was a member of the Border Guard - Freikorps von der Lippe. In the early 1920s he attended the teachers' college ; from 1925 to 1926 he studied in Düsseldorf without obtaining a degree . He did not get a job as a primary school teacher, after which he worked as a colliery employee in the Ruhr mining industry.
Vogt joined the SPD in 1920. He was chairman of the Reich Banner in Bochum and employed in the economic policy department of the main board of the independent miners' association . From 1932 he was a member of the SPD in the Prussian state parliament and emigrated to the Saar region in June 1933 and from there to the Netherlands in September . Here he worked in the resistance against the Nazi regime . In Amsterdam he was part of the editorial team of the exile newspaper Freie Presse . Vogt took part in the founding of the working committee of free trade union miners in Germany in Paris and became secretary of this organization. In Amsterdam he published the miners 'reports and the miners' newspaper . In 1938 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Miners' International Federation (MIF). When the Wehrmacht invaded the Netherlands, Franz Vogt fled to suicide.
The city of Bochum named Franz-Vogt-Straße after the resistance fighter.
literature
- Detlev Peukert , Frank Bajohr : Traces of Resistance. The miners' movement in the Third Reich and in exile. With documents from the IISG Amsterdam , Munich 1987.
- Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 392.
Web links
- Franz Vogt's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Franz Vogt's holdings in the IISG
- Bochum city archive on Franz Vogt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogt, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karschin , district of Grünberg in Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1940 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |