Hermann Basse

The Volksfreundhaus or “Red Castle” in 2011.

Hermann Basse (born August 24, 1882 in Braunschweig ; † July 1, 1933 there ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD ).

Live and act

After attending elementary school and his apprenticeship in Braunschweig, Basse worked as a carpenter journeyman for the railroad. In 1918 he joined the USPD, from 1919 to 1933 he was full-time managing director of the Union of German Railway Workers and a member of the board of the local civil servants' committee in Braunschweig. From 1920 to 1922 he was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament . In 1922, like the majority of the USPD members, he converted to the SPD. Basse ran for the Reichstag in 1924 in constituency 16 (Südhannover-Braunschweig). In addition, he was already known as an active opponent of the National Socialists in the Weimar Republic due to his membership in the Iron Front and in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . At times he was also a member of the Braunschweig city council.

Like many other Brunswick worker functionaries, Hermann Basse was interrogated and severely mistreated by the SA in 1933 in the “ Red Castle ” on Brunswick Schloßstraße . He was fatally injured when he was thrown from a window on the second floor. He was buried in the municipal urn cemetery.

After the end of World War II , a street in the Braunschweiger Schuntersiedlung was named Bassestrasse in his honor .

See also

• The victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony areas

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann : memorial plaque "The victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony areas". The victims' biographies. The President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 2007, p. 5.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 41 .
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution - resistance - emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 397-398 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Or on June 11, 1933 according to Hermann Basse. In: Networked Memory. City of Braunschweig, accessed on March 24, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Hermann Basse's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)