Hugo Gill

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Hugo Gill (born February 6, 1897 in Berlin , † May 4, 1972 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Gill was originally a worker. He was already a member of the KPD during the Weimar Republic , for which he was a member of the Hamburg parliament in 1932/33 , and took an active part in the Hamburg uprising in 1923. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he went underground. On October 23, 1933, he was arrested and taken to the town hall, which at that time served as Gestapo headquarters, for interrogation . After severe abuse, he was sent to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . After further abuse, he was sent to the Holstenglacis detention center and then to the detention hospital. After imprisonment in the concentration camp and the Fuhlsbüttel prison , he was temporarily released from prison in December 1937. In February 1938, however, Gill was arrested again and in June of that year was sentenced to 18 months in prison, which he had to serve in the peat camp of the prison in Schülp. Released in 1939 and obliged to work at Hamburg Airport and from 1940 in Aalborg in Denmark. In 1944 he was drafted into military service in the Air Force and served at the Köthen airfield (Anhalt) , where he was taken prisoner in May, from which he was released at the end of August 1945.

In 1945 Gill participated in the re-establishment of the KPD in Hamburg and was a full-time employee of the party in Hamburg and managing director of Alster-Druck GmbH , which produced the KPD newspaper Hamburger Volkszeitung , until the KPD was banned in 1956 . On January 2, 1953, he moved up to the citizenship for his party friend Alfred Wahl , who had resigned his mandate, from which he, however, already resigned in the citizenship election in the same year, because the KPD failed at the five percent hurdle . After the KPD ban, initially unemployed, Gill later worked as a messenger. Although he lived in Hamburg-Langenhorn , he belonged to the illegal state leadership of the KPD in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1968, Gill was a founding member of the DKP in Hamburg.

His daughter Erna Mayer, former head of the international bookstore in Hamburg, is active as a contemporary witness and campaigns for a worthy memorial in the Hamburg town hall .

literature

Web links

  • Gill, Hugo . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 373 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the events between 1933 and 1945, see the report of his daughter Erna Mayer in the ver.di newspaper Impuls , issue July 2008 ( ( page no longer available , search in web archives: bund-laender.hamburg.verdi.de )) .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bund-laender.hamburg.verdi.de
  2. ↑ Das Stadthaus in Hamburg - Center of Terror and Suppression 1933 to 1943, publisher: Initiative Gedenkort Stadthaus, Hamburg 2019, p. 98, ISBN 978-3-00-063221-1
personal data
SURNAME Gill, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1972
Place of death Hamburg