Klaus Clemens

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Klaus Clemens (born February 26, 1908 in Beuel ; † December 18, 1930 in Bonn ) was an SA man who on December 7, 1930, the "bloody Sunday", in clashes between Communists and National Socialists in front of the Beethoven Hall in Bonn was seriously injured in a pistol shot and died as a result of the injury. He was stylized by the NSDAP in the Rhineland as a “Bonn martyr of the Nazi movement” and “martyr of the movement” in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 .

The Bonn youth hostel on the corner of Poppelsdorfer Allee / Quantiusstrasse was named after him in 1933, as was the Klaus-Clemens-Brücke ( Old Rhine Bridge ) and Klaus-Clemens-Strasse (Dyroffstrasse). In Bad Godesberg the Klaus-Clemens-Straße (Gotenstraße) and in Oberkassel near Bonn the Klaus-Clemens-Straße (Simonstraße) remembered him. There was also Klaus-Clemens-Strasse n in other cities in the Rhineland , for example in Eschweiler from March 31, 1933 on the basis of a city council resolution.

Josef Messinger was accused of murder by the Nazis . After the National Socialists came to power, Messinger was interrogated several times in the local SS home. After an interrogation on July 11, 1933 in the town hall of Beul, a police officer and an SA man brought him back to the court prison, where he was found dead in his cell the next day. It was announced in the newspapers that he had hanged himself.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Clemens, Claus at lwl.org, accessed on May 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Norbert Schlossmacher (ed.): "Without further ado the color changed": the Bonn police under National Socialism , 2006, p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Clemens, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clemens, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA man who was shot at a demonstration between communists and national socialists
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bump
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1930
Place of death Bonn