Hugo Eickhoff (politician)

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Hugo Eickhoff (born September 26, 1906 in Wandsbek ; † December 15, 1944 near Focşani , Romania) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

After elementary school , Eickhoff completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship. He then worked as a clerk . At first he was organized in the bourgeois youth movement before he had first contacts with the KPD in 1927 through the Arbeiter-Foto-Bund . In 1929 he joined the Association of Proletarian Freethinkers . In 1930 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and its political director in Eimsbüttel . From 1931 to 1933 he was the organization manager of the KJVD district Wasserkante. From September 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the KPD parliamentary group of the Hamburg parliament. Together with Willi Mohn , Eickhoff led the Hamburg KJVD into illegality in 1933.

Eickhoff, who lived in Eimsbüttel until the beginning of 1943, was initially able to avoid all arrests, but was arrested at the end of 1942 or as part of the “thunderstorm” campaign in August 1944 and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . At the end of 1944 he was forcibly recruited into the Dirlewanger SS special battalion . After fights by the special unit in northern Hungary and further stations in Hatvan , Jászberény and Poroslov , Eickhoff is said to have died in mid-December 1944 on the way to Focșani in Romania. The official date of death is December 15, 1944.

However, it cannot be ruled out that Eickhoff did not die, but died on the night of December 14-15, 1944 "in connection with the mass desertion of hundreds of prisoners who were forced into the penal battalion of the Red Army ".

Honors

Stumbling block for Eickhoff

A stumbling block was laid for Eickhoff in Hamburg's old town (Rathausmarkt 1).

literature

  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance 1933-1945. Reports and documents . New edition. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7 , p. 250.
  • Hans-Peter Klausch : anti-fascists in SS uniform. Fate and resistance of the German political concentration camp prisoners, prison prisoners and Wehrmacht prisoners in the SS special formation Dirlewanger . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-86108-201-2 , pp. 342, 467, 479 and 523.
  • Jörn Lindner, Frank Müller: Members of the citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 2012, DNB 1023694999 , pp. 42-43.
  • Martin Schumacher: MdL The end of parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5189-0 , p. 32.
  • Eickhoff, Hugo . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jörn Lindner, Frank Müller: Members of the citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution . Hamburg 2012, p. 42
  2. ^ A b Jörn Lindner, Frank Müller: Members of the citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution . Hamburg 2012, p. 43
  3. ↑ Weber / Herbst (2008), p. 216
personal data
SURNAME Eickhoff, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdHB, resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wandsbek
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1944
Place of death at Focșani