Leonhard Hausmann

Leonhard Hausmann (born January 27, 1902 in Augsburg ; † May 17, 1933 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German politician (KPD).

Life and activity

After attending school, Hausmann worked as a construction worker in the Haindl paper mill in Augsburg and later as a construction worker at Thosti-Bau in Augsburg. At Thosti he was an active trade unionist on the works council .

At the beginning of the 1920s, Hausmann joined the Communist Youth Association and later the KPD . In the latter, he took on tasks as a functionary, where he eventually made it to party secretary.

On May 30, 1928, Hausmann married Wilhelmine Stippler (1906–1972). Around 1930, Hausmann spent a year in the Soviet Union for political training.

In 1932 Hausmann was appointed as the successor to Hans Beimler, who was elected to the Reichstag, as head of the KPD sub-district of Augsburg. He was de facto chairman of the KPD in Augsburg. He was also the editor of the KPD newspaper Die Rote Vorstadt and was a member of the Augsburg city council.

assassination

In the course of the mass arrests of communists that began after the National Socialists came to power , Hausmann initially managed to stay hidden with a friend. On March 25, 1933, however, he was finally recognized on the street and deported to Dachau concentration camp on the same day. In connection with the successful escape of the KPD Reichstag member Hans Beimler from the Dachau concentration camp, Hausmann was arrested and taken to Dachau. There he was led into the forest surrounding the camp on May 17, 1933 by SS-Scharführer Karl Ehmann and shot. The camp administration officially declared his killing to be a shooting "on the run". A commission of inquiry found that the fatal shot had been fired from less than 30 cm away, which supported the circumstances of the death alleged by the camp administration, and brought charges of murder. However, there was no longer a trial. Hausmann's death was made known abroad in the communist Brown Book in 1933 and was discussed in 1945 at the Nuremberg Trials .

After the war, Karl Ehmann was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing Hausmann.

Today the Leonhard-Hausmann-Strasse in Augsburg reminds of Hausmann.

literature

Hans Günter Richardi: School of violence: the Dachau concentration camp , 1995, p. 98f.

Individual evidence

^ Stanislav Zamecnik: That was Dachau , 2007, p. 34.
↑ Josef Becker: 1933 - fifty years later: the National Socialist seizure of power in a historical perspective , 1983, p. 212.
^ The Trial of German Major War Criminals: Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany , Teil 3, 1946, p. 150.
↑ Edith Raim: "West German investigations and trials on the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps", in: Ludwig Eiber / Robert Sigel: Dachauer processes. Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945–1948 , p. 218.

personal data
SURNAME	Hausmann, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1933
Place of death	Dachau concentration camp

[1] Stanislav Zamecnik: That was Dachau , 2007, p. 34.

[2] Josef Becker: 1933 - fifty years later: the National Socialist seizure of power in a historical perspective , 1983, p. 212.

[3] The Trial of German Major War Criminals: Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany , Teil 3, 1946, p. 150.

[4] Edith Raim: "West German investigations and trials on the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps", in: Ludwig Eiber / Robert Sigel: Dachauer processes. Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945–1948 , p. 218.