Karl Nasemann

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Karl Nasemann (born May 17, 1908 in Hanover ; † November 21, 2000 ) was a German worker and union official . The resistance fighter is regarded as a contemporary witness and as an example of the "resistance of the common people" against the Nazi regime .

Life

Karl Nasemann was born in the north of Hanover during the German Empire , where he spent his youth and attended one of the local elementary schools. According to the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1910, there were 7 heads of household with the name Hasen at different addresses.

In the Weimar Republic, barely 14 years old, Karl Nasemann began an apprenticeship as a lathe operator "in the emery factory", the United Schmirgel- und Maschinenfabriken AG (VSM) in Hainholz , where Nasemann's father was also employed.

Simultaneously with the beginning of his apprenticeship, Nasemann joined the Socialist Workers Youth (SAJ), whose education and training evenings he attended. He also took part in the hiking trips organized by the SAJ in the 1920s and co-founded a music group. In his free time he also attended the Vahrenwald active workers' sports club Freie Turnerschaft Vahrenwald .

In his third year of apprenticeship, Nasemann became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). But after completing his apprenticeship, the youngster was dismissed in 1926. As a result, he temporarily managed to get by as a driver .

In the seizure of power by the National Socialists Nasemann still working in the spring of 1933 as a driver for the Seidenhaus Marx , "a company because of its Jewish owner on 1 April 1933 by the boycott campaign of the Nazis has been affected." During a break from work in a bar at Klagesmarkt learned Nasemann of the performed on the same day occupation of the union house , with the details of a man of SA boasted: A Storm of the SS had marched past at the union hall until out of the basement restaurant shots were fired; the secretly arranged signal to storm the building. As a contemporary witness , Nasemann later recalled that a month before the major actions against all the other trade union houses in Germany in Hanover, “the entire party and trade union work” of the social democrats there had already collapsed.

Nevertheless, Karl Nasemann tried to continue the political work together with some friends. This included, for example, the distribution of leaflets or the distribution of stamps with the text "Do not fill the collecting cans of the armaments industry ".

But it was precisely in the large company Hanomag , which had been converted into an important weapons manufacturer and which was under strict political surveillance, that Nasemann got a job in 1935. Nevertheless, a small group of trustworthy colleagues was formed who supported each other under the motto " Solidarity is our only weapon!"

During the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, Nasemann first met prisoners of war and forced laborers who were employed by Hanomag . When prisoners from concentration camps were used as forced laborers in the factory halls under the guard of SS guards at the beginning of 1945 , Nasemann and others succeeded time and again, despite the prohibition, in helping the victims of the Mühlenberg concentration camp at least by encouraging them, but especially by procuring food and drinks Drink through medical assistance to help.

After the end of the war and still under the British military government , Nasemann participated "in the establishment of the first provisional works council at Hanomag", as a member of which he stood up for his colleagues.

In the post-war period , Karl Nasemann switched to the municipal works works in Hanover, where he was involved as a works council and in union work, as well as in the newly founded SPD . He was also active in the youth work of the Socialist Youth in Germany - The Falcons .

As a pensioner, Nasemann became a member of the 2nd senior citizens' council of the city of Hanover in 1974. He also worked in the ÖTV trade union as a spokesman for pensioners and at the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) as a co-founder of the DGB senior citizens' group in Hanover.

For his life's work, the tireless commitment to his fellow men, Karl Nasemann was awarded the city ​​badge of the state capital Hanover in 1984.

In his 1991 memoirs Nasemann recorded for posterity:

"My greatest concern remains that my generation in particular, which has experienced the two world wars and the inhumanity of twelve years of National Socialist rule, continues to actively and closely help consolidate and expand German democracy ."

Also posthumously honored example, in 2010 the memorial Ahlem and the historian Karl Josef Cretans at an event with lectures and film - documents in the House of Hanover region the "unsung heroes" Nasemann.

family

The managing director of the municipal works council was married to the administrative employee Edith Nasemann (* 1931), whose job was long after 1956 in the new town hall of Hanover. She often filled her husband's appointment folder with templates for his work. The Social Democrat joined the SPD in 1956, lived in Döhren for many years , was a member of the Döhren-Wülfel district council and lived in the southern part of Hanover at the beginning of the 21st century .

Karl-Nasemann-Weg

Due to inter- factional application of decided District Council in Hanover district Ricklingen on 2 June 2005 unanimously naming a previously unnamed road that from the Tresckowstraße at the southern end of the Manele-sweet-way heading west in the district Wettbergen leads in Karl- Nasemann way.

literature

Archival material

An archival by and about Karl Nasemann be found, for example,

Web links

  • Video excerpts from Nasemann's stories about forced laborers and children at Hanomag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Peter Schulze (text), Anette Gilke (collaborator): “Solidarity is our only weapon.” Karl Nasemann (1908–2000), in this: The “house der Arbeit ”/ Center of the Hanoverian Workers' Movement , Ed. German Trade Union Federation - Lower Saxony - Center , Hanover: [undated], by Frauke Diefenbach as a PDF document or online via docplayer.org
  2. ^ A b c d e Karljosef Kreter : Lecture and discussion: "Silent heroes in the Nazi era - the example of Karl Nasemann" , presentation of a lecture with logged memories of Nasemann's film documents, on the pressebox.de page of June 4, 2010, most recently accessed on July 4, 2018
  3. ↑ See section III, p. 336 of the address book as a digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Vereinigte Schmirgel- u. Maschinenfabrik AG. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 641.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f o.V. : Application No. 15-1148 / 2005: Listing in Wettbergen-West , application and draft resolution for the Ricklingen District Council for listing on the e-government.hannover-stadt.de website on June 2, 2006, last accessed on July 4, 2018
  6. ↑ oV: 85 years and not a bit quiet / Antje Kellner, Thomas Hermann and Lothar Pollähne congratulate Edith Nasemann on his 85th birthday and honored her for 60 years of SPD membership , article with photos on the page spd-suedstadt-bult.de ( Südstadt -Bult ) from January 23, 2016, last accessed on July 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Nasemann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German worker and union official
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2000