Ludwig Klingemann
Ludwig Klingemann (born January 2, 1887 in Sachsenhagen , † June 12, 1942 in Schöningen ) was a German bricklayer and worker leader of the USPD and the SPD in Vorsfelde during the Weimar Republic .
Life
Klingemann learned the mason trade, but was no longer able to work as a master mason due to a gunshot wound in the First World War . During the war, he accepted a position as a gatekeeper at the Reichsbahn . After the end of the war and the onset of the November Revolution , he belonged to an elected workers 'and soldiers' council in Vorsfelde along with 5 other people . The November Revolution in Braunschweig particularly influenced the events in the region . Klingemann later founded a local branch of the USPD in Vorsfelde, of which he became chairman. In 1919 he moved into the Vorsfelde municipal council for the party, where he was initially involved in housing issues and food distribution. When the SPD and USPD unified in 1922, Klingemann was elected chairman of the newly formed SPD local group in Vorsfelde. From the mid-1920s he sat for Vorsfelde as a SPD district council member in the Helmstedt district council . Klingemann belonged to the workers 'rifle club in Vorsfelde and was chairman of the local workers' choir .
After the NSDAP was strongly represented in Vorsfelde from the 1930s, Klingemann became its main target after the " seizure of power " in 1933. She used her power and terrorized Klingemann. In March 1933 he was brought to Helmstedt and abused. There he was forced to "voluntarily resign" from his post. On March 29, 1933, he signed a declaration in which he declared his resignation from the SPD and resigned from his district council. The following day, the SPD dissolved itself in Vorsfelde.
In June 1942, Klingemann was arrested by SS and SA members in Vorsfeld and taken to Schöningen . There he was beaten to death in a restaurant. The perpetrators were never prosecuted.
Commemoration
After the Second World War , a street in Vorsfelde-Süd was named after Klingemann in 1946. Around the 1990s, the former district court building in the old town, which was built in 1801 for the Vorsfelde office , was converted into a house for Vorsfeld clubs and was given the name "Ludwig-Klingemann-Haus".
In 2017, a historian spoke out in favor of naming a street and a house as well as giving Ludwig Klingemann the recognition he deserved. He advocated a room in the Ludwig-Klingemann-Haus with further information about him and the erection of a monument in front of the Vorsfeld town hall. The monument should show the historian's proposal to Klingemann and the former mayor of Vorsfeld, Carl Grete , who campaigned for the unity of Germany and for freedom of expression in the 19th century.
See also
literature
- History of the apron volume 2 . Matthias Brodtmann, Wolfsburg 1995, ISBN 3-929464-02-2
Individual evidence
- ^ SPD local association Vorsfelde / Wendschott: 100 years of social democracy in Vorsfelde , published on August 7, 1998 from: Braunschweiger Allgemeine Anzeiger of November 29, 1918
- ^ SPD local association Vorsfelde / Wendschott: 100 years of social democracy in Vorsfelde , published on August 7, 1998
- ^ Vorsfelde: In memory of Ludwig Klingemann in Wolfsburger Allgemeine from June 2, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klingemann, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bricklayer and worker leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sachsenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1942 |
| Place of death | Schöningen |