Johann Eilts

Johann Gerdes Eilts (born May 6, 1894 in Stedesdorf , Hanover province , † February 4, 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp , Hamburg ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Maimed from the World War I returned, the journeyman painter Gerdes Eilts worked at the Naval Shipyard Wilhelmshaven until he was dismissed for Communist agitation. During the Second World War he operated a hot ironer in Wilhelmshaven .

Eilts first joined the SPD in 1912, but became a member of the KPD after the First World War. There he became chairman of the KPD city association in Rüstringen . From 1925 to 1933 Eilts was a member of the Rüstringen city council. From 1931 to 1932 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Eilts was arrested on short notice in 1933. Although he had behaved politically inconspicuously since the KPD had been crushed in 1933, he was arrested in August 1944 as part of the grate action and taken to the Neuengamme concentration camp, which he did not survive.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann : memorial plaque "The victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony areas". The victims' biographies. The President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 2007, p. 10.
• Hurry up, Johann . 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 .