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Kurt Willkomm (born August 28, 1905 in Hermsdorf , Lausitz or Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge, † November 16, 1933 in Hanover ) was a German teacher, editor and party functionary (KPD). He died in 1933 as a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Due to his good academic achievements, Willkomm's teachers obtained a vacancy at a higher school for him. He later received a scholarship to train at a teacher training college. During his seminar time he joined a committee of socialist students.
Instead of working as a teacher, Willkomm went to Hanover in 1927, where he found work as a bank clerk before he was temporarily unemployed.
Politically, Willkomm joined the KPD in the mid-1920s . In 1931 he became editor of the communist Neue Arbeiter Zeitung (NAZ). In the same year Willkomm met Grete Hoell and Margarete Nagel , to whom he became engaged in 1932. A daughter emerged from the relationship. Also in 1932 Willkomm received the post of the main cashier of the KPD in Lower Saxony and thus became a member of the KPD district leadership there.
After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933 and the subsequent smashing of the legal party organization, Willkomm took part in the reorganization of the Lower Saxony section of the party underground. On November 5, 1933, he was arrested by the Hanover Gestapo. He died eleven days later in the Hanover Gestapo headquarters of the consequences of the abuse inflicted on him in custody. His death was officially declared as the result of a pulmonary embolism .
Honors
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- After the Second World War, Willkomm was buried in a grave of honor in the Ricklingen city cemetery.
- The Kurt-Willkomm-Weg , laid out in 1987 in the Hanover district of Mühlenberg , honors the "editor [...] who was tortured and murdered in the Gestapo headquarters".
- In 2008 a stumbling block was laid in front of Lister Meile 82, his last self-chosen place of residence in Hanover-List .
literature
- Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 290.
- Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Schlütersche, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 541.
- Klaus Mlynek: Hoell, Grete . 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. 302.
Web links
- Welcome to: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon
- Street names in the districts of Mühlenberg and Bornum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerda Zorn: City in Resistance , 1965, p. 35.
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Hoell, Grete . in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 302
- ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek: Welcome, Kurt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 680
- ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Kurt-Willkomm-Weg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 152
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welcome, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anti-fascist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hermsdorf , Lausitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1933 |
| Place of death | Hanover |