Hans Rueß

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Hans Rueß (born January 31, 1901 in Esslingen am Neckar ; † October 25, 1974 in Esslingen am Neckar) was a German politician ( KPD ) and in the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Rueß was councilor of the KPD in Esslingen during the Weimar Republic . After the Stuttgart cable attack on February 15, 1933 to prevent Adolf Hitler from speaking on the radio in Stuttgart , he and Willi Bohn drafted a leaflet to educate the population about it.

Because of his political resistance to the Nazi dictatorship , he was arrested in 1933 and held until 1936 in the Heuberg , Oberer Kuhberg and Dachau concentration camps . From 1939 to 1945 he was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and was liberated in 1945 by the 3rd US Army .

After the liberation he became involved again in the KPD. From 1946 to 1973 he was a member of the district council and from 1946 to 1947 also in the district council of the Esslingen district , was elected to the constitutional state assembly of Württemberg-Baden in 1946, was a member of the first state parliament of Württemberg-Baden from 1946 to 1950 and from 1952 to 1956 Member of the state constituent assembly and the first state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . In the 1950s he was a councilor in Esslingen.

Rueß was a member of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime . In 1968 he participated in the reconstitution of the German Communist Party .

He was married to Paula Rueß since 1947 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Works council manual for the Württ-Bad Act No. 726 on the participation of employees in the management and organization of private-sector operations and other related laws and regulations. Heilbronn 1949

literature

  • Friedrich Pospiech : Unteachable people who persist in the truth ...: Paula and Hans Ruess: two lives in the resistance against war and fascism. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag successor, Bonn 2002
  • Remembrance - Commemoration - Dunning: On the 25th anniversary of Hans Rueß's death; Communist - trade unionist - anti-fascist; Information / documents. Edited by Friedrich Pospiech. Esslingen 1999
  • Josef Weik: The members of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2003. 2003, ISBN 3-923476-03-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Stuttgart cable attack
  2. ↑ Oberer Kuhberg Concentration Camp ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulm-gegen-rechts.de
  3. ↑ District Archives Esslingen EN 2.1 Bu. 70
  4. ↑ PDF on www.firmenhistoriker.de ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firmenhistoriker.de
personal data
SURNAME Rueß, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüß, Hans; Ruess, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KDP), MdL and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1974
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar