Julius Adler (politician)

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Julius Adler (born January 23, 1894 in Neunkirchen , † April 8, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen ) was a German politician (KPD).

Life

Julius Adler was born in Neunkirchen in 1894 as the son of a miner and was a crane operator by profession. He took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 . At first he was a member of a Catholic youth organization; In 1923 he joined the KPD and became a functionary there. From 1924 he was a city councilor in Hamborn and after the incorporation of Hamborn in 1929 in Duisburg . From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Julius Adler was arrested on March 15, 1933 in Essen , taken into “ protective custody ” and held in the Lichtenburg concentration camp. According to an arrest warrant, he was in pre-trial detention in Torgau prison from August 1934. On January 11, 1935, the III. Criminal Senate of the OLG Hamm Adler for alleged high treason to 18 months in prison. According to the indictment, Adler had attended three meetings of Communist officials in March 1933. In 1937 he was released from the Börgermoor concentration camp and arrested twice again in the same year. After the war began in September 1939, Adler was arrested again by the Gestapo and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1945 he was transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where he died of typhus . The exact date of death is not known; the Hamborn district court set April 8, 1945 in 1949.

Honors

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating him in Berlin near the Reichstag on the corner of Scheidemannstrasse and Platz der Republik . A memorial stone for eagles is located in Berlin-Lichtenberg in the memorial of the socialists . The express boat 183/1 of the type P6 of the People's Navy of the GDR was named after Julius Adler and was in service from October 8, 1957 to May 31, 1968.

literature

  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
  • Rudolf Tappe, Manfred Tietz (Hrsg.): Tatort Duisburg I. 1933 - 1945. Resistance and persecution under National Socialism. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1989, ISBN 3-88474-140-3 , p. 292ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death by Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR Die Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , pp. 87f.
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen