Franz Xaver Büchs

Franz Xaver Büchs (born April 18, 1889 in Augsburg , † June 22, 1940 in Nuremberg ) was a Bavarian politician and a victim of the Bavarian police .

Life

Büchs learned the trade of machinist after attending primary school . From 1910 he worked for the MAN company in Nuremberg. In the same year he became a member of the SPD . During the First World War he came into opposition to the war policy of the SPD party leadership and in 1917 he became a member of the USPD .

In 1918 he took an active part in the ammunition workers' strike and other activities aimed at ending the war. In 1920 he joined the majority wing of the USPD, became a member of the KPD and became its chairman in Nuremberg. From 1923 he again offered resistance against state power and worked “illegally” for the banned KPD. Because of this, he was arrested in 1924 at a KPD event in Stuttgart and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, which he did not have to “serve” completely, since he was elected as a member of the Bavarian state parliament in 1924 . In 1928 he was re-elected to the list of the KPD in the Bavarian state parliament and was a member of parliament until 1932. Excluded from the KPD at the beginning of 1930, first switched to the KPD opposition (KPO) and later to the SPD. His successor in the leadership of the Frankish KPD was Jakob Boulanger .

After leaving the state parliament, he went into business for himself and opened a cigar shop in Nuremberg, which in the second half of the 1930s developed into a small center of social democratic resistance. In 1933 he was arrested several times and tortured during police interrogations. In June 1940 he was arrested again and this time so badly mistreated that he died as a result of the interrogations. According to the Bavarian police, it should have been a "suicide by hanging in the cell". But the Bavarian House of History assumes that he was murdered.

literature

• Hartmut Mehringer : The KPD in Bavaria 1919-1945. Prehistory, Persecution, and Resistance. In: Martin Broszat , Hartmut Mehringer (ed.): The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance. (Bavaria in the Nazi era; vol. 5). Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-42401-7 .
• Büchs, Franz Xaver . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• social democratic resistance in Bavaria (PDF; 596 kB)
• Franz Xaver Büchs in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History