Reinhold Juergensen

Memorial stone at the town hall in Elmshorn

Memorial plaque at the town hall in Elmshorn

Reinhold Jürgensen (born March 18, 1898 in Elmshorn ; † December 20, 1934 in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp ) was a German worker (electrician) and politician (KPD).

Live and act

Reinhold Jürgensen attended elementary school in Elmshorn in his youth. He then completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and went to advanced training school. After the First World War , Jürgensen began to organize himself more politically. In 1922 he joined the Communist Party of Germany . From 1919 on, Jürgensen, who had been married since 1920, was unionized in the German Metalworkers' Association . He was expelled from the metal workers' association in 1930 because of his opposition.

From November 1932 to March 1933, Jürgensen was a member of the Reichstag as a member of his party for constituency 13 (Schleswig-Holstein). From 1924 to 1926 he was also district deputy in the Pinneberg district and from 1924 city councilor for Elmshorn.

After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in spring 1933, Jürgensen was arrested as a well-known communist and held as a “ protective prisoner ” for at least five months in the Fuhlsbüttel, Glückstadt and Kuhlen concentration camps . It has been proven that Jürgensen died in Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in December 1934. The camp management officially stated that Jürgensen had committed suicide on December 17, 1934. According to other sources, however, after his first five-month detention, Jürgensen was temporarily released again, only to be arrested again on December 19, 1934 and taken to Fuhlsbüttel - two days after the camp administration said he had committed suicide in Fuhlsbüttel should have. Most sources assume that Juergensen was killed by members of the SS camp personnel. The actual date of death is usually assumed to be December 20, 1934.

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Jürgensen near the Reichstag in Berlin . On August 14, 2008, a stumbling block was set in the sidewalk in front of Jürgensen's former apartment on Morthorststrasse in Elmshorn .

Stumbling block Reinhold Juergensen

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 February 5, 2012]).

Web links

Reinhold Jürgensen in the database of members of the Reichstag
Website of the Stolpersteine working group for Elmshorn

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 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. 315.
^ Walter Hammer / Walter Hösterey: Hohes Haus in Henkers Hand , 1956, p. 56.

personal data
SURNAME	Juergensen, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German workers (electricians) and politicians (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1934
Place of death	Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp

[MdR-1] 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. 315.

[2] Walter Hammer / Walter Hösterey: Hohes Haus in Henkers Hand , 1956, p. 56.