Socialist front

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The Socialist Front (SF) was a social democratic resistance group against National Socialism in the greater Hanover area , which existed from 1933 until it was broken up in 1936. It was "indisputably the largest resistance organization in the Reich".

construction

The Socialist Front was essentially recruited from active base members of the left wing of the SPD , the SAJ and the Reichsbanner ; with around 1000 members it was one of the largest regional resistance organizations. The SF distinguished itself critically from the policies of the SPD, which were perceived as too inactive and too adjusted.

As early as the autumn of 1932, around 250 people from the later resistance organization had attended a course to prepare for “illegal” political activity.

The SF coordinator was Werner Blumenberg , who escaped to the Netherlands in 1936. Over 300 members of the group, including Richard Partzsch and Wilhelm Bluhm , heads of the Linden-Nord department, were arrested. 230 members were tried in trials, some on charges of high treason .

Another well-known member of the SF was the later Federal Minister Egon Franke , who was arrested in 1934.

At the end of 1934 / beginning of 1935, Wilhelm Hahn junior headed Department 1 of the SF in Ricklingen .

The Socialist Front was from April 1933 to August 1936 the district Hannover-Linden in about four weeks, the newspaper Socialist leaves out.

literature

  • Gerda Zorn : city ​​in resistance. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Gerda Zorn: Resistance in Hanover. Against reaction and fascism 1920–1946. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977. ISBN 3-87682028-6 .
  • Bernd Rabe : The Socialist Front. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933-1936. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1984. ISBN 377162309X
  • Klaus Mlynek :: Gestapo Hanover reports ... Police and government reports for central and southern Lower Saxony between 1933 and 1937 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 39), Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1986, ISBN 3-7848- 3151-6
  • Herbert Obenaus : Bourgeois in the social democratic resistance. The fall of the Socialist Front in Hanover. In: History of the Region. On the 65th birthday of Heinrich Schmidt , 1993, pp. 419–440.
  • Herbert Obenaus: The Socialist Front. In: Hans Coppi , Stefan Heinz (ed.): The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers , Dietz, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3320022648 , pp. 107–128.
  • Herbert Obenaus: Defeat and renewal of the labor movement. The concept of the Hanoverian “socialist sheets”. In: H.-D. Schmid (ed.): Two cities under the swastika. Resistance and denial in Hanover and Leipzig 1933–1945 , 1994, pp. 71–91.
  • Karin Theilen, Die Sozialistische Blätter - explosives against the system . A periodical of the Hanoverian resistance against National Socialism, in: Marlis Buchholz / Claus Füllberg-Stolberg / Hans-Dieter Schmid (eds.), National Socialism and Region. Festschrift for Herbert Obenaus on his 65th birthday, Bielefeld 1996, 145–166. (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte, Volume 11) ISBN 3-89534-172-X
  • Karin Theilen: Socialist papers. The organ of the “Socialist Front” in Hanover 1933–1936. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 2000. ISBN 3-7752-5813-2
  • Wolfgang Benz , Walter H. Pehle (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the German resistance. Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15083-3 , pp. 302-306.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Rabe, Die Sozialistische Front , Hannover 1984, p. 10
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Hahn, (3) Wilhelm, jun. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 147; online through google books