Johann L'Hoste

Johann L'Hoste (born March 14, 1890 in Niederlinxweiler ; † January 1, 1956 in Oberlinxweiler ) was a Saarland politician ( KPD ).

After his marriage to Maria Schubmehl (* March 12, 1891 in Oberlinxweiler; † March 17, 1963 in Ottweiler ) he moved to Oberlinxweiler and built a house in the new residential area Vor dem Hübel around 1925 . He was employed by the railroad, most recently as railway chief secretary , was involved in the revolutionary trade union opposition and was a functionary of the Saarland KPD. In 1932 he was elected to the last regional council of the Saar area . He was previously a member of the Oberlinxweiler municipal council and district council.

In the run-up to the Saar referendum in 1935 , he belonged to the United Front, which campaigned against the annexation of the Saar area to the Third Reich. After the vote, he had to sell his house and emigrate with his family (the children Johann, Karl, Kurt, Eduard, Roland and Anna Elisbeth), like many opponents of Nazism in the Saarland, to France, where he earned his living in a foundry. In October 1940 he was arrested and deported to Germany with his family. His son Roland was murdered by the Gestapo in the city of Mettlach prison . The Hamm Higher Regional Court sentenced Johann L'Hoste to three and a half years in prison on November 11, 1941, which he served in Siegburg . He was then interned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp and was supposed to be transferred to the Dachau concentration camp , but he was able to escape during the transport. His son Kurt survived his stay in Dachau and was liberated by the American troops.

After the war he was mayor of Oberlinxweiler from 1946 to 1949. Because of his membership in the Mouvement pour le Rattachement de la Sarre à la France (MRS), he was expelled from the KPD.

His son Hubert L'Hoste (1923-1959) was taken in by the writer Maria Osten as a foster child and brought by her to Moscow, where he met Mikhail Kolzow . In Ostens book Gubert v strane čudes (1935, Hubert im Wunderland) the author described his childhood.

literature

• L'Hoste, Johann . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Family book Oberlinxweiler - from the first church book entries until today, ed. from the Association for Local and Family History Oberlinxweiler eV, self-published 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028570-7