Jakob Dautzenberg
Jakob Dautzenberg (born February 2, 1897 in Würselen (then Aachen district , now Aachen city region ), † August 20, 1979 in Aachen ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was a member of the Reichstag .
Life
Dautzenberg, son of a foreman, was a trained molding machine . In 1912 he became a union member and in 1922 a member of the KPD. He was community representative in Haaren in the Aachen district and from 1925 a district council member in Aachen-Land. In 1928 he became a full-time KPD secretary in Aachen (until 1932). From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the Reichstag for the KPD (Cologne-Aachen constituency). He remained KPD secretary in Aachen until 1932, then party secretary in Cologne.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he became unemployed. In 1933 and 1934 he was in custody, after which he worked as a moulder. Dautzenberg built up a resistance group in Aachen and Eschweiler , which the Gestapo rolled up in August 1944 . Dautzenberg was arrested along with 200 anti-fascists. In the Neuengamme concentration camp , life-threatening bacilli experiments were carried out on Dautzenberg. Seriously ill, he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where he was liberated in April 1945. When he returned for Hair, his face and body were disfigured with fungal growths.
In 1946 he was elected to the Aachen-Land district council for the KPD. Later he worked for the KPD as a sub-district leader in the Ruhr area until the party was banned in 1956 . Then he lived as a pensioner in Haaren near Aachen. In 1967 the public prosecutor charged him with continuing to work for the illegal KPD. He was acquitted in court. In 1968 he joined the DKP .
literature
- Dautzenberg, Jakob . 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 , pp. 178-179.
Web links
- Jakob Dautzenberg in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dautzenberg, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Würselen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1979 |
| Place of death | Aachen |