Mathias Jakobs
Mathias Jakobs (born September 9, 1885 in Hunolstein near Morbach , Hunsrück as Matthias Jakobs ; † May 5, 1935 in Gladbeck ) was a social democratic politician.
Life
Jakobs was the son of a farmer and free thinker . He was initially a shoemaker's journeyman . Between 1914 and 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . Since he could n't find a job as a shoemaker after the war , he became a miner .
His main job was between 1922 and 1933 as secretary of the miners' association. From 1928 Jakobs was a member of the supervisory board of Bergwerk AG in Recklinghausen as well as of the mine safety commission for the district of the Oberbergamt Dortmund .
politics
In 1909, Jacob was the free trade union Miners' Union joined in 1912 and the SPD. Between 1919 and 1924 he was chairman of the party in Gladbeck. Since 1920 he was also a member of the party's sub-district executive committee. Jakobs was a member of the city council in Gladbeck from August 1920 to 1929 . As such, he campaigned unsuccessfully for a municipal reorganization, in which Horst would have come to Gladbeck. Between 1924 and 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament for constituency 17 (Westphalia-North) . On October 28, 1925, he said among other things before the Prussian state parliament:
“What does the miner's culture need? We do not take this standpoint, on the contrary: we demand for the worker, for those who create values and increase production, that they benefit from exactly the same benefits in the cultural field, theater, green spaces, urban forests and the like as others. We will not fail to cultivate these cultural endeavors as far as we can. "
After the beginning of the Nazi era , Jakobs was arrested on June 27, 1933. He was initially held in the court prison in Herford . In autumn 1933 he was taken to the Papenburg concentration camp. He was then held in Lichtenburg concentration camp until December 1933 . Numerous hospital stays followed after his release from custody. Jakobs died in May 1935 as a result of his imprisonment.
His funeral, attended by over 500 people in the central cemetery, was the last silent demonstration for humanity and democracy in Gladbeck.
Afterlife
Jakobs is one of 345 people who are named because of their "anti-fascist resistance" in the memorial of the socialists at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin. In 1987 a multi-purpose hall in Gladbeck was named after him, the Matthias-Jakobs-Stadthalle .
literature
- Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 539.
- Frank Bajohr , Rainer Weichelt: Mathias Jakobs. A social republican worker functionary in the crisis of the Weimar Republic. Essen 1987, ISBN 3-88474-124-1 .
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , pp. 155-156.
- Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: With passion for our city. The women and men of the first Gladbeck city council , Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8107-0308-8 , pp. 139–144.
Web links
- Biography of Mathias Jakobs . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Weichelt: History of the City of Gladbeck. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, p. 93.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jakobs, Mathias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jakobs, Matthias (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hunolstein near Morbach , Hunsrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1935 |
| Place of death | Gladbeck |