Friedrich Klug (resistance fighter)
Friedrich Klug (born August 19, 1908 in Schulenburg , † September 5, 1943 near Patras in Greece ) was a German accountant , resistance fighter and politically persecuted by the Nazi regime .
Life
The trained accountant Friedrich Klug was active at the time of the Weimar Republic as a member of the already in the German Empire in 1911 by workers founded gymnastics and sports club Mecklenheide. When football players from Vienna attended friendly matches on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the club, which was the first workers' gymnastics and sports club in Hanover , Fritz Klug and other sports enthusiasts pledged his household effects in order to finance the expansion of extensions such as shower and washrooms to be able to provide.
In the seizure of power by the National Socialists Klug had in 1933 taken over the chairmanship of the TuS Mecklenheide, trying above all to the promotion of young people of the club. But after the sports club was dissolved and expropriated in the course of the Gleichschaltung , Friedrich Klug joined the resistance organization “ Socialist Front ”, distributed leaflets and recruited new supporters.
Friedrich Klug, who last lived at Sommerfeldstrasse 25 in Ledeburg , was arrested on September 22, 1936 at the age of 28 for “preparing for high treason ”. He served his sentence in Hamelin prison until 1939 . As a result, he was considered "unworthy of defense" at the beginning of the Second World War . After internment in concentration camps , he was called to the Wehrmacht in 1943 , although stationed in Greece as a member of a punishment company . There he contracted the intestinal disease bacterial dysentery in a field hospital near Patras.
Friedrich-Klug-Strasse
In the Hanoverian district of Ledeburg, part of the older street Am Tannenkamp , which leads from there to Kurländer Weg, was renamed Friedrich-Klug-Straße in 1986 in honor of the resistance fighter.
Sommerfeldstrasse 25
Before the building of the last self-selected residence of Friedrich Klug, the artist moved Gunter Demnig on 6 October 2014 in the presence of relatives and friends of the Nazi victims in the asphalt before Sommerfeldstraße 25 in Ledeburg a stumbling block with the inscription
"Friedrich Klug (born 1908) lived here, arrested in the resistance in 1936."
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Helmut Zimmermann : Friedrich-Klug-Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 84
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Jan Philipp Eberstein: Nord / Nördliche Stadtteile / Eight new stumbling blocks against forgetting ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from April 11, 2014, last accessed on April 12, 2014. July 2018
- ↑ a b o. V .: Association history [of TuS Meckelheide (taken from the festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of 1961) ] on the page tusmecklenheide.de [ undated ], last accessed on July 12, 2018
- ↑ Nord / Nördliche Stadtteile / Eight new stumbling blocks against forgetting ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from October 11, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klug, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German accountant, resistance fighter and politically persecuted person under the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schulenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1943 |
| Place of death | near Patras , Greece |