Jakob Burger

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Jakob Burger (born August 11, 1896 in Dillingen / Saar , † June 7, 1944 in Stuttgart ) was a German Social Democrat who was executed by the National Socialists .

Life

Jakob Burger grew up in Dillingen in a Catholic family. In the Dillinger Hütte he completed an apprenticeship as a fitter , later Burger worked for the Franz Méguin company until it closed. Then then for the waterworks of the city of Dillingen. In 1924 he joined the SPD and was active in the united front . As a political activist he was mentioned in the "Directory of Prominent Personalities of the System Time" and thus came into the focus of the Stapo office in Saarbrücken from 1935 onwards . He was initially laid off and remained unemployed for six and a half years. The employment office officially justified this with a hip shortening, however, the office was aware of its political activity. He worked briefly in September 1939 as an examiner in the Junkers works in Magdeburg , but did not find work again until 1941 in the Bartz stove factory in Dillingen. After a dispute with the manager there, he was released in October 1943 and arrested a few days later.

On March 27, 1944, Burger was sentenced to death by the People's Court for preparing to commit high treason and undermining the military . Several employees and the manager Jakob Bartz had testified against Burger. He was charged with communist propaganda and anti-fascist activities in the company. The statements were probably made up, an anti-fascist activity of Burger could not be proven and so the judgment was based only on the statements of the manager. On June 7, 1944, the sentence was carried out in the Urbanstrasse prison in Stuttgart.

Jakob Burger Platz

Appreciation

In 1946, Burger's fate was commemorated in the first edition of the Social Democratic People's Voice. In his honor, Göbenstrasse in Dillingen was renamed Jakob-Burger-Strasse. Ten years later in the course of affiliation to the Federal Republic of Germany , the designation was reversed. Almost forty years later, in 1995, a square on Göbenstrasse was renamed Jakob-Burger-Platz.

literature

  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Schüren, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 68.
  • Klaus Michael Mallmann / Gerhard Paul: The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . Dietz, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8012-5010-5 , p. 47-49 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christel Wickert: Resistance and persecution of German social democrats in the 20th century . In: Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg, 2000. p. 377. Online: PDF .
  2. ^ Rainer Freyer: Street names: Multiple street renaming on the Saar. saar-nostalgie.de, June 1, 2012, accessed June 19, 2012 .
  3. ^ Information from the city's press and public relations work on July 26, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen / Saar
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1944
Place of death Stuttgart