Hans Ludwig Sierks
Hans Ludwig Sierks (born July 24, 1877 in Seeth , † April 23, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German civil engineer, social democratic town planner and involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime.
Life
Before the First World War he worked for local government in many German cities and he worked on the construction of the Anatolian Railway . In 1912 he took over the Dresden Building Department as chief engineer .
In 1919 he became a member of the SPD. In 1923 he took over the leadership of the Proletarian Hundreds in Dresden together with Rudolf Renner . He came increasingly into conflict with the SPD's coalition policy, so that he finally left it in 1930. In 1931 he joined the opposition Social Democrats in the SAP .
Through his scientific work in the field of construction, he had earned an international reputation and was therefore often active abroad. In the spring of 1933 Sierks returned from Sweden despite the now everyday terror in Germany. When one of his books was banned in May 1933, he protested and was therefore temporarily arrested. Despite the particular danger after his release from prison, he kept in touch with his social democratic and communist friends. In 1943 he joined the Free Germany Movement and supported the resistance struggle of the group around Georg Schumann .
After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he helped Fritz Lindemann escape from the Gestapo . On July 25, he was asked for help by Hermann Lindemann, a relative of Fritz Lindemann and the Social Democratic mayor of Senftenberg until 1932 . Sierks arranged contacts with his friend Erich Gloeden , who helped Jews to live underground, to help them go into hiding.
Due to a search call for Lindemann on August 19, the arrest of Sierks followed on September 3, 1944. On December 1, 1944, like Carl Adolf Marks , he was sentenced to death by the People's Court under the chairmanship of Roland Freisler . Sierks was incarcerated in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison until the sentence was carried out . He was shot together with Klaus Bonhoeffer and Rüdiger Schleicher and other prisoners on the night of April 22nd to 23rd, 1945 by a special command of the Reich Main Security Office .
See also
literature
- Bengt von zur Mühlen (Ed.): The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court. Chronos Film GmbH, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931054-06-3 .
- Luise Kraushaar u. a .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz-Verlag , Berlin 1970, p. 280ff.
Web links
- Tribute to Sierks
- Gottfried Hamacher: Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Berlin 2003, p. 128. (PDF; 565 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sierks, Hans Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer, social democratic town planning officer and involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seeth |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin |