Jakob Stotz

Jakob Stotz (born December 28, 1899 in Mössingen ; † 1975 there ) was a German craftsman, member of the KPD and leader of the Mössingen general strike .

Life

Stotz's father was a butcher and a member of the Mössing municipal council for the DDP . Jakob Stotz had trained as a glazier and started his own business. In 1920 he joined the KPD, from the end of the 1920s he headed the Mössing KPD local group. Stotz was a leader in the Mössingen general strike on January 31, 1933, which protested against the Nazi takeover of power the day before. The day after the general strike he surrendered to the police, was taken into custody in Rottenburg and sentenced to two and a half years in prison on October 25, 1933 in Stuttgart . Stotz was released after two years, returned to Mössingen and resumed his manual work there.

After French troops marched into Mössingen in the course of liberation from National Socialism , Stotz was appointed to the head of the so-called "Advisory Committee" and became Deputy Mayor. Until 1955, Stotz sat on the local council several times. In the 1950s, the participants in the Mössing general strike were rehabilitated, and in 1974 Stotz was awarded the citizens' medal by the Mössing municipal council. On the tenth anniversary of his death, a square in Mössingen was named after Jakob Stotz.

literature

• Hermann Berner: Jakob Stotz (1899–1975) - a protagonist of the Mössingen general strike on January 31, 1933 . In: Angela Borgstedt et al. (Ed.): Courage proven. Resistance biographies from the southwest (= writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg, vol. 46), Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 9783945414378 , pp. 109–117.