Nikolaus Thielen
Nikolaus Thielen (born November 22, 1901 in Sankt Sebastian (am Rhein) , † January 6, 1944 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a German politician ( KPD ).
Live and act
From 1908 to 1916 Thielen attended elementary school . Then he was trained as a machinist . From 1916 to 1919 he worked as a stoker , then as a machinist. Due to the inflation of 1923 Thielen, who had been unionized since 1918, became unemployed. He initially joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1923 he moved to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), in which he took over numerous functionary posts in the following years. In 1929 Thielen was elected city councilor in Vallendar . He also became a member of the Koblenz-Land district council . In addition, he acted for his party as a district instructor for Koblenz-Trier-Eifel.
In 1932 Thielen became sub-district secretary of the KPD in Koblenz . In July 1932 he was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) .
After the Reichstag fire on the night of February 27-28, 1933, Thielen escaped the general arrest warrant for all communist members of the Reichstag by fling to the Saar area . The KPD district leadership in Saarbrücken finally asked Thielen to return to Berlin to take part in the activities of the illegal underground KPD. After initially refusing, Thielen returned to the capital of the Reich under threat of exclusion, where he was arrested on September 20, 1934, the day after his arrival, together with three other communists at an illegal meeting on Breitenbachplatz .
On July 2, 1935, the People's Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison and ten years of loss of honor for preparing a treasonous enterprise . He served the sentence in Siegburg prison . After three years, Thielen's wife Sophie tried to get an early release from prison, which was rejected by the Ministry of Justice.
On November 18, 1943, Thielen was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp. According to the concentration camp administration, he died there on January 6, 1944 of acute cardiac insufficiency.
Commemoration
Today a street in Vallendar is named after Thielen. Furthermore, a plaque in front of the Reichstag building commemorates Thielen as part of the memorial to the memory of 96 members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists .
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 5, 2013]).
Web links
- Nikolaus Thielen in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Nikolaus (Klaus) Thielen at the Friends' Association Memorial Koblenz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 584.
- ^ Rhein-Zeitung, Koblenz edition, November 15, 2001.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thielen, Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Sebastian (on the Rhine) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1944 |
| Place of death | Mauthausen concentration camp |