Joseph Hahn (politician)
Joseph Hahn (born October 18, 1883 in Erkelenz ; † November 10, 1944 there ) was a lawyer, newspaper publisher and politician for the German Center Party .
Life
Joseph Hahn was born in Erkelenz in 1883 as the son of the doctor and newspaper publisher Dr. Franz Hahn and Anna Maria Fischer-Brandt were born. He was shaped throughout his life by the Catholic upbringing in his parents' home. He studied law in Bonn and obtained his doctorate in Würzburg. jur. He then continued the newspaper publisher Erkelenzer Kreisblatt, which Joseph Brandts, an ancestor on his mother's side, had founded in 1854.
He joined the center party and later became chairman at the district level. He was a member of the city council and the district council . Joseph Hahn participated in numerous associations in his hometown; so he was chairman of the municipal choir in 1834. He was a co-founder of the rifle brotherhood "Our Lady", the history and antiquity for the district of Erkelenz and the museum association. The Heimatblätter appeared as a monthly supplement in his newspaper from 1921 to 1944. In this local history series he also published a few essays himself. He was a member of the church council of the parish of St. Lambertus and district brotherhood master of the St. Sebastianus - shooting brotherhoods .
Political persecution under National Socialism
Joseph Hahn was considered a consistent nonconformist towards the NSDAP . After 1933, his newspaper was more and more harassed by the Nazi newspaper Westdeutscher Beobachter with its Erkelenz local edition. Nevertheless he managed to publish the newspaper until 1944.
After the assassination attempt on Hitler , some former members of the center were arrested in the district of Erkelenz. Among them was Joseph Hahn. It was the so-called "grids" , in which former members of the Reichstag and politicians of democratic parties (including Konrad Adenauer , Josef Baumhoff , Otto Gerig , Peter Schlack and Joseph Roth ) were arrested throughout the German Reich . Joseph Hahn was first transferred to the Adalbertsteinweg prison in Aachen. A day later, his friend Mathias Jäger was brought in from Baal . Another inmate was Albert Maas from Aachen, who was one of the founders of the CDU in Aachen after the war .
The three prisoners were taken to the labor education camp in the Cologne-Deutz exhibition halls. Here Joseph Hahn fell ill with typhus. After the bombing of the Cologne trade fair on October 14, 1944, the prisoners were transferred to the Müngersdorf barracks camp, originally created to intern the Cologne Jews. A few days later, on October 20th, he was released home. He returned to Erkelenz, seriously ill, on a truck, lying on potato sacks, accompanied by Mathias Jäger. Hahn died there of the consequences of his imprisonment on November 10, 1944. He found his final resting place in Erkelenz on the old cemetery .
Honors
- In 1959, on the initiative of the municipal choir, the place at the castle was renamed to Dr.-Joseph-Hahn-Platz.
- Today his house on Brückstrasse, in which the newspaper publisher was also located, is the tenth stop on the " Route Against Forgetting ", which in Erkelenz refers to the Nazi tyranny. A plaque commemorates Joseph Hahn.
literature
- Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande (Hrsg.): Route against forgetting. Erkelenz remembers, 2. Erw. Ed., Erkelenz 2011
- Josef Lennartz: Erkelenzer streets, writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande e. V. No. 3, Erkelenz 1982
- Erkelenzer Volkszeitung from October 30, 1954, special edition 100 years of Erkelenz newspaper history
- Claudia Conradi: The Christian-Democratic Union in Aachen - from foundation to consolidation, dissertation, Bonn 2006
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahn, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erkelenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1944 |
| Place of death | Erkelenz |