Ludwig Landwehr

Ludwig Landwehr (born May 13, 1897 in Osnabrück ; † August 10, 1981 there ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Landwehr attended elementary school and after completing his training worked as a cashier at the Stadtsparkasse Osnabrück. Since 1911 he was a member of the SPD . He was a soldier in the First World War . After his return at the end of the war, he worked as a civil servant candidate for the Osnabrück city administration and passed the administrative service examination in 1923. In 1920, Landwehr resigned from the SPD and joined the KPD, for which he subsequently performed various functions. In 1924 he was a candidate for the Reichstag and applied several times for a mandate from the KPD for the Hanover Provincial Parliament. Landwehr had been party secretary in Osnabrück since 1922. In 1924 he became editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung in Bremen, where he was a member of the Northwest District Management. In 1926 he was expelled from the KPD for behavior that was harmful to the party. In December 1929 he was back in the KPD. In 1932 he became sub-district manager. On March 22, 1933, he was charged with preparing for high treason for his work for the KPD. He was arrested in June 1933 and sentenced in November 1933 by the Hamm Special Court to one year and three months in prison. In September 1934 he was released from Weener Judicial Prison. He moved to Stuttgart in 1935. At the beginning of the war in 1939 he was arrested again and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was liberated in 1945.

In August 1945 he was entrusted with the establishment and management of a housing construction department at the Osnabrück city administration, but was forced to give up this position due to a ban on political activity by officials. He then became head of the economic and municipal department of the KPD for the Braunschweig administrative region . He was a member of the Hanover State Parliament , appointed after the Second World War , from August 23, 1946 to October 29, 1946. He then belonged to the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first three electoral terms, from November 3, 1947 to May 5, 1959. In the state parliament he was deputy chairman of the KPD parliamentary group in the first electoral term.

In 1950, Landwehr was sentenced to one year imprisonment for disparaging British military justice in three newspaper articles in the KPD newspaper Die Truth . Ludwig Landwehr was VVN Chairman of Lower Saxony and a member of the International Beech Forest Committee. In 1962, Ludwig Landwehr started a campaign against Wolfgang Otto , whom he accused of murdering Ernst Thälmanns based on the testimony of the former Buchenwald prisoner Marian Zgoda . A press conference planned for October 1966, at which Landwehr wanted to present documents that were supposed to prove that Federal President Heinrich Lübke was involved in the construction of concentration camps, was banned by the police on the grounds that it should have promoted the banned KPD. A press conference called by Landwehr on February 8, 1968 in the "Hamburger Hof" hotel in Frankfurt was supposed to present a draft program for a new KPD. The press conference was broken up by the Frankfurt Police President on the orders of the Hessian Minister of the Interior at the request of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to promote the aims of the banned KPD. Landwehr was later on the party executive of the DKP.

Fonts

• "Law and Judges" , Osnabrück no year [1961]
• " Alarming facts - a documentation on the persecution of anti-nuclear opponents and anti-fascists ", Osnabrück 1961.
• "NS lawyers in Lower Saxony - catalog of names, judgments, personnel files" , ed. of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN), Hanover 1964.
• “Regarding Max Reimann's proposals to the federal government” , and KPD ban - how to intervene by the political police and judiciary in the personal and professional fate of hundreds of thousands , in: Wolfgang Abendroth , Helmut Ridder and Otto Schönfeldt : “KPD ban or with Are communists alive? ” Roro Verlag, 1968
• (together with Max Reimann / Willi Mohn / Otto Niebergall ): “ KPD ban. Causes and consequences 1956-71 ”, Frankfurt / M. 1971
• "... it was actually always interesting!": from the memoirs of Ludwig Landwehr, Osnabrück.

Filmography

• Persecuted people pursued again, documentary film - GDR, 1963, b / w, 17 min Wolfgang Landvogt, DEFA studio for documentary films
• And everyone had a name. Ettersberg (Buchenwald) [AT], documentary film - GDR, 1974 Gerhard Jentsch , DEFA studio for short films, Potsdam-Babelsberg; for the Buchenwald National Memorial, Weimar

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 227.
• Gerd Steinwascher (editor): Gestapo Osnabrück reports ... Police and government reports from the Osnabrück administrative district from 1933 to 1936 . (= Osnabrück historical sources and research, XXXVI), Osnabrück 1995, p. 37.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reinhard Jacobs MA: Terror under the Swastika - Places of Remembrance in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt Study commissioned by the Otto Brenner Foundation. (PDF; 394 kB) (No longer available online.) Otto Brenner Foundation, March 2001, p. 92 , archived from the original on October 20, 2007 ; Retrieved May 31, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ (1961/62) " Edel georgelt ", Der Spiegel from June 20, 1962; (1970) 60 Years VVN Lower Saxony, “The VVN in the Peace Movement” , accessed on May 31, 2012.
3. ↑ Alexander von Brünneck, Political Justice against Communists in the Federal Republic 1949–1968, (Diss. Jur. Frankfurt 1976) 1976 Frankfurt 1978, p. 188.
4. ↑ Thilo Gabelmann: Thälmann never fell? A legend dies. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1996, p. 235
5. ↑ http://www.progress-film.de/de/filmarchiv/film.php?id=4371&back=true  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2011  
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed June 26, 2011; Thomas Heimann: Pictures from Buchenwald: the visualization of anti-fascism in the GDR (1945–1990) . Böhlau, Cologne and Weimar 2005, pp. 172, 182.