Ludwig Pfeifer

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Ludwig Pfeifer (born September 5, 1908 in Bieber , † September 26, 1970 in Altheim ) was a German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

biography

Ludwig Pfeifer, who came from a social democratic family, was a trained businessman , later worked in the police service and as a district administrator . He became involved in the social democratic movement early on and had been a member of the SPD since 1922 .

Ludwig Pfeifer had been a police officer in the Offenbach office from 1929 ( constable in the Offenbach riot police ), was dismissed in 1933 and had been a resistance fighter against National Socialism since Hitler came to power.

Ludwig and his brother Adam Pfeifer belonged as intellectual heads to a resistance cell in the then independent Bieber . Both were in close contact with other social democratic resistance groups against the Nazi regime in Offenbach am Main around Karl Appelmann , Hans Stoffers and Valentin Unkelbach as well as Georg Bätz and Karl Hoffmann in Bürgel . The main aim was to build a network of underground resistance groups and to provide the population with information material in order to strengthen their resistance against Hitler. Due to his political activities in the resistance, he was arrested by the National Socialists in 1936 when the Gestapo caught him distributing leaflets . He was charged with high treason. The higher regional court in Darmstadt sentenced him to one year in prison .

As a result, he was classified as unworthy of defense. Nevertheless, he was forcibly recruited by the Wehrmacht in 1942 and drafted into the 999 penalty battalion . He received short training in the 6th Artillery Training Battery in Heuberg in the Odenwald. He was captured in North Africa . According to the sources of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt , he was already forced into the war in 1942 and was an American prisoner of war from 1943 to 1945.

Initially employed in 1945, he became office manager of the Offenbach am Main district administration in 1946. In 1950 he became a district administrator and in 1955 a senior district administrator. In 1958 he was elected district administrator of the Dieburg district and confirmed in office in 1963. He was killed in a car accident seven years later.

Political offices

Ludwig Pfeifer was chairman of the SPD subdistrict Offenbach / Dieburg from 1946. In 1949 the Offenbach Social Democrats probably re-elected Ludwig Pfeifer as their chairman. From 1963 he was elected district chairman, later again chairman of the SPD sub-district.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HStAD inventory R 12 P No. 4729  In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  2. ^ HStAD inventory R 4 No. 37368  In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of July 5, 1965.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h HStAD inventory S 1 no. VERWEIS1 (H 2 Dieburg no. 4143)  In: Archivinformationssystem Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  4. ↑ Stumbling block for Hans Stoffers. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Stumbling block for Valentin Unkelbach. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .

literature

  • Stumbling block for Adam Pfeifer. In: offenbach.de .
  • Wolfgang Reuter : Offenbacher against the Nazi dictatorship. Offenbacher Editions, Offenbach am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-939537-16-8 .
  • Oliver Heil: Almost blown traces of the Offenbach resistance. In: fr.de . March 20, 2012, accessed February 21, 2019.
  • Adolf Mirkes, Karl Schild: Testimonies: 1933–1945 Persecution and resistance in the city and district of Offenbach. Röderbergverlag Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-87682-842-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pfeifer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), resistance fighter against National Socialism, district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaver
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1970
Place of death Altheim