Fritz Wulfert

Frederick "Fritz" Wulfert (* 3. October 1912 in Hauröden ; † 23. October 1987 in Hannover ) was a social democratic resistance fighters and SPD - functionary .

Education, job and Nazi persecution

Fritz Wulfert in the inscription on the memorial court prison Hanover next to the pavilion on Raschplatz

After his secondary school leaving certificate , Fritz Wulfert completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and passed the journeyman's examination in 1932 .

Wulfert was a member of the Linden Workers' Gymnastics Club. In 1928 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth , in 1929 the young banner black-red-gold . In 1931 he became a member of the SPD and the German Metalworkers' Association .

From November 1934 to September 1936 he worked as a tool fitter in the ironworks in Wülfel. As a member of the Socialist Front resistance group , he was arrested on September 14, 1936 and imprisoned in the Hanover court prison: On October 28, 1937, the Hamm Higher Regional Court sentenced him to a prison term of 2 years. After his release from prison, Wulfert returned to work in the Wülfel ironworks.

SPD functionary and local politician in the post-war period

Almost a month before the end of the war in Germany, shortly after the liberation of Hanover by the 9th US Army on April 10, 1945, Fritz Wulfert became a member of the Reconstruction Committee in Hanover on April 11, 1945 (until April 25, 1945) . Wulfert also worked in the Schumacher office : the western zone office was the office of the later SPD chairman Kurt Schumacher in Jacobsstrasse 10 in Linden .

Fritz Wulfert worked full-time as secretary of the SPD sub-district of Hanover and - from 1948 - as organizational secretary in the SPD district of Hanover. Wulfert held numerous municipal political offices at the municipal and district level, including, for example, from 1967 to 1974 the parliamentary group chairman in the Greater Hanover Association .

Honors

Street signs with legend panels on Friedrich-Wulfert-Platz in Hanover-Bemerode

In 1985 Wulfert was awarded the Hanover city badge.
On May 8, 1989, the court prison memorial was unveiled at the site of the former court prison in Hanover , which contains his name in the memorial inscription. The memorial is intended to remember those who were persecuted there by the Nazi regime.
In 2001 Friedrich-Wulfert-Platz in Bemerode was named after the resistance fighter.

literature

Herbert Obenaus , W. Sommer: Political prisoners in the Hanover judicial prison during the National Socialist rule. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode Vol. 44, 1990, pp. 171-174.
B. Rabe: The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936. 1984.
K. Theilen (arr.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933–1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover. 2000.
Klaus Mlynek : Wulfert, Fritz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 687 .

References and comments

↑ In Hanover-Bemerode the Friedrich-Wulfert-Platz is named after him, but the Stadtlexikon Hannover lists him exclusively as Fritz Wulfert : p. 687 .
↑ The Stadtlexikon Hannover also mentions the "Maschinenfabrik Niedersachsen (MAN)" under the keyword Wulfert, Fritz , but refers to the Maschinenfabrik Niedersachsen Hannover (MNH), which was only founded in 1937 or 1939.
↑ see photo with the inscription of the memorial to the court prison
^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
^ Klaus Mlynek: Reconstruction Committee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 677.
↑ The city encyclopedia writes under the keyword “Büro Schumacher” Ja k obstr. with K". Klaus Mlynek: Schumacher office. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 95.

personal data
SURNAME	Wulfert, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wulfert, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	social democratic resistance fighter in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hauroden
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1987
Place of death	Hanover

[Fritz/Friedrich-1] In Hanover-Bemerode the Friedrich-Wulfert-Platz is named after him, but the Stadtlexikon Hannover lists him exclusively as Fritz Wulfert : p. 687 .

[2] The Stadtlexikon Hannover also mentions the "Maschinenfabrik Niedersachsen (MAN)" under the keyword Wulfert, Fritz , but refers to the Maschinenfabrik Niedersachsen Hannover (MNH), which was only founded in 1937 or 1939.

[3] see photo with the inscription of the memorial to the court prison

[4] Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.

[5] Klaus Mlynek: Reconstruction Committee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 677.

[6] The city encyclopedia writes under the keyword “Büro Schumacher” Ja k obstr. with K". Klaus Mlynek: Schumacher office. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 95.