Heinrich Weber (trade unionist)

Heinrich Weber (born September 11, 1885 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 25, 1944 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a German local politician ( SPD ) and trade unionist . He became a victim of the Nazi regime.

Life

Weber was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1885. His father came from a weaving family from Singen , where the family later lived. Heinrich Weber did his military service in the Navy , to which he was called up again when the First World War broke out .

In Singen he worked as a stoker and machinist at Georg Fischer. After his return from the First World War he joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and remained a member of the party up to 1933 he was one of its dissolution in 1933. From 1924 the Singen citizens' committee to, in addition, he was a juror during jury court in Konstanz and Member and temporarily on the board of the union of stokers and machinists. He was particularly fond of the association Die Naturfreunde , to which he had been a member since 1920 and of which he was chairman from 1923 to 1933. The acquisition of the Naturfreundehaus near Markelfingen is thanks to his initiative.

In 1933 Heinrich Weber took part in the construction of settlement houses in the east of Singen. The group of houses built at that time was renamed Heinrich-Weber-Siedlung in 1945 ; in the 1970s, the name was lost when it was rededicated as an industrial area.

After the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, Weber was arrested as part of the " Operation Grid " and deported to the Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace. Weber came to the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz via the Dachau concentration camp , where he succumbed to the inhuman conditions of detention on September 25, 1944. The urn with his ashes ended up in Singen, where they were buried.

Hobby archaeologist

Together with the pharmacist Albert Funk , Weber took part in the excavations of the prehistorically important burial ground in the north of Singen in the early 1930s. He found fragments of an urnfield settlement on Hohentwiel and discovered the Scharmenseewadel ribbon ceramics settlement on Tannenberg. At the Petersfels near Engen he hid tools from the Paleolithic. Weber also owned a remarkable collection of minerals. He handed over his finds to the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe . After his death, Weber's widow handed over seven panels with around 200 well-organized finds from the above-mentioned sites as well as from the Bohlinger Gorge and the Öhningen quarry to the Archaeological Hegau Museum in Singen, which was founded by Albert Funk .

Honors

• On September 10, 1991, the newly created square on the previous Storchenbrunnen area was given the name Heinrich-Weber-Platz .
• In July 2011 in Singen in Byk-Gulden-Str. 11 a stumbling block laid in his memory.
• The Heinrich Weber-Natura Trail , a hiking route to the Hegau volcanoes, was dedicated to him.
• A memorial was erected for him at the Naturfreundehaus in Markelfingen.

literature

• Doris Auer: “Greetings for the last time”. Biographical sketches and materials on the victims of National Socialism in Singen . Singen History Workshop, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Heinrich Weber at Stolpersteine ​​Singen ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2015 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.  
2. ↑ "Who was Heinrich Weber?" . On the website of the AWO Kreisverband Konstanz e. V.
3. ↑ "18 new stumbling blocks for singing" . In: Südkurier , May 9, 2011 (online edition).
4. ↑ Hegau volcanoes - landscape created from fire and ice
5. ↑ Flyer Heinrich Weber-Natura Trail , p. 3.