Hans Lehnert (lawyer)

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Hans Lehnert (born October 23, 1899 in Hersbruck ; † October 13, 1942 in Herrliberg on Lake Zurich ) was a lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

In 1919 he graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and then studied law at the University of Munich.

As a lawyer, Hans Lehnert was a founding member and area chairman of the International Socialist League (ISK) in Munich . In addition, he was active with the free thinkers . After 1933 he organized the ISK resistance groups in Munich and southern Germany together with the locksmith Ludwig Koch , the grocery store owner Ludwig Linsert and his wife Margot Linsert . Two more members joined in Munich later.

In autumn 1936 he brought his friend Willi Ohlendorf together with the Augsburg ISK group, which had been active underground since 1934 . Together with Ludwig Koch, he organized several training courses in 1936, 1937 and 1938, in which the Augsburg group also took part. The Linsert couple's grocery store in Laim served as a point of contact for the discreet exchange of information and literature .

Since 1936, the group intensified educational propaganda with dangerous leaflet campaigns . In the run-up to the 1936 elections, they distributed slips of paper with slogans such as “Don't vote for Hitler” or “Tear up the ballot papers”. They produced leaflets dealing with the incitement to war, the system of injustice, the population policy of the National Socialists and other topics at intervals of a few months. Most of the time, they distributed these in black oilcloth bags they had made themselves, which looked like purses.

On sidewalks, on house walls and walls they used rubber stamps, inscriptions and symbols, among other things in the form of a swastika, on a gallows. They later used a silver nitrate solution that etched itself in daylight so that the symbols could only be removed by chiseling out.

Since 1936 there have been arrests of ISK groups in northern Germany, strangely enough, the southern German groups were spared. In October 1937 Lehnert was arrested and only with a trick by his friends could he be released. They made the leaflets that he was supposed to have produced again with the same materials and then distributed them again, thereby making the Gestapo believe that Lehnert actually had nothing to do with this matter. In the late summer of 1938, the southern German groups were finally rolled up. In April 1939, the People's Court sentenced Ludwig Koch to eight years in prison; Ludwig Linsert got away with two years in prison. After the war, Koch and Linsert made careers in the German trade union federation.

After his release in April 1938, Lehnert fled to Switzerland . Together with Fritz Eberhard and Hilde Meisel (Hilda Monte), he represented a strategy of direct action in the fight against Hitler and therefore resigned from the party in London in 1939 . In 1940 he was interned in Switzerland and died there in 1942.

Works

Books and Brochures:

  • Poems by Hans Lehnert. - Hamburg: European Publishing House, 1950.

Items:

in the socialist observation point :

Names in [] are the pseudonyms used in the article

  • [Frank III] In the machine of the political criminal justice of the III. Rich. Vol. 9, No. 7, November 1934, pp. 172-180.
  • [Karl Feurer] Breakthrough on the Catholic front. Vol. 10, No. 5, May 1935, pp. 110-112.
  • [Frank III] "Revolution" in criminal law! Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1935, pp. 230-235.
  • [Karl Feurer] Justice and Benefit. Vol. 12, No. 3, February 1, 1937, pp. 51-53.
  • [Karl Feurer] Brown victory in Bavaria. Vol. 12, No. 6, March 15, 1937, pp. 126-128.
  • [Karl Feurer] Degenerate Art. Vol. 12, No. 17, September 1, 1937, pp. 386-389.
  • [Karl Feurer] "The Eternal Jew". Vol. 12, No. 27, December 3, 1937, pp. 628-631.
  • [Karl Feurer] Georg Buechner and JF Fries. Vol. 15, No. 11, May 9, 1940, pp. 308-311.

in Beyond the Borders :

  • Hans Lehnert: Two Fables - by Hans Lehnert. No. 11, mid-September 1945, p. 4.
  • Hans Lehnert: The gallop into freedom. No. 13, beginning of December 1945, p. 7.

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life. Munich 1980; Volume 2: The Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Munich 1983; Volume 3: Complete Register. Munich 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1917/18
  2. ^ Civil status of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Winter half year 1918/19. Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1919 (and following)
personal data
SURNAME Lehnert, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank III (pseudonym); Feurer, Karl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German socialist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersbruck
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1942
Place of death Herrliberg