Tiedthof

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Tiedthof

The Tiedthof is a building built in 1910 as a people's house on Goseriede street near the Steintor in Hanover . It was the first trade union building in Germany to be occupied by the NSDAP and is a listed building .

history

Commemoration event of the German Trade Union Federation on April 1, 2014 "for the 81st anniversary of the occupation of the Hanoverian trade union building"
Rear courtyard

A textile factory was previously located on the site of the Tiedthof. The Tiedthof was built in 1910 at the former Nikolaistraße 7, today Goseriede 4, as the house of the Hanoverian trade unions. The building, built according to plans by Rudolf Schröder , was given a four-storey monumental facade in the neo-baroque style . Behind the facade building there were office wings in several courtyards. It was the center of the social democratic labor movement in Hanover. The General German Trade Union Federation was housed in the rooms. There were also the offices of the SPD , the workers 'welfare and other workers' organizations, the editing and printing of the “ Volkswille ” magazine , a hotel, a cinema, cultural and self-help institutions and a restaurant. The “Volksheim” event hall for 6,000 participants was located on the property. The entire square was popularly known as: "The red block".

After the seizure of power in 1933, attacks by the National Socialists on this center took place, which were prepared and accompanied with hate slogans (“red murder center”, “location quarters of the organized gang of criminals” and so on). Windows had already been thrown in at the beginning of the 1930s. In February 1933 a house search followed in connection with the Reichstag fire . On April 1, 1933, SS groups stormed the entire building. Those present were rounded up in the courtyard, mistreated and 25 of them arrested by the SS. Flags of the workers' organizations were burned in front of the building and then the SS moved on  to occupy the house of the Association of Factory Workers of Germany at Rathenauplatz 3 and the printing works of the communist NAZ (Neue Arbeiter-Zeitung) at 6 Andertenschen Wiese .

To commemorate this event, on April 1, 1983, the DGB Hannover placed the memorial stone Old Trade Union House Hannover in front of the building with the inscription: “1933-1983. We remember and admonish. In 1910, the Hanoverian trade unions built their trade union building here - formerly Nikolaistrasse 7, today Goseriede 4. This house was occupied by the Nazis on April 1, 1933. The unions were smashed, unionists were persecuted, arrested and murdered. DGB district Hanover. "

In 1998 the building complex was renovated by the Christian Peters group and converted into a commercial building and event center.

literature

  • F. Feldmann: History of the Hanover local association of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Hanover 1952, DNB 989905519 .
  • Anke Dietzler: Elimination, conformity, adjustment - the Hanover daily newspapers after the National Socialist takeover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 41 (1987), pp. 193-271.
  • Manfred Böttcher: The history of the ver.di farms , in Manfred Böttcher (editor), Wolfgang Denia, Anne Wojke, Bernd Hoppe: The future has tradition here. ver.di-Höfe , ed. from the educational institute ver.di in Lower Saxony eV, with photos by Walter Ballhause et al. , Hannover: Bildungswerk ver.di in Lower Saxony, 2004, pp. 6-17
  • Klaus Mertsching: The occupation of the trade union building in Hanover: April 1, 1933 , ed. from the DGB region Lower Saxony-Mitte. With a greeting from Sebastian Wertmüller and an introduction by Michael Buckmiller, Hanover: Offizin Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-930345-63-2 and ISBN 3-930345-63-3 ; Table of contents can be downloaded as a PDF document
  • Helmut Knocke: ADGB trade union building, today's "Tiedthof". In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 221.

Web links

Commons : Tiedthof (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Goseriede 4. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 125.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 38.4 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 57.9"  E