Werner Blumenberg

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Werner Blumenberg (born December 21, 1900 in Hülsede , † October 1, 1965 in Amsterdam ) was a German historian, founder and coordinator of the Socialist Front .

Life

Memorial plaque on the Werner-Blumenberg-Haus in Linden-Nord

Werner Blumenberg was a son of the theologian Wilhelm Blumenberg . From 1919 he studied theology , philosophy and oriental history at the universities of Marburg and Göttingen . He has to end his studies early for financial reasons. Blumenberg then works in the Ronnenberg potash mine. Due to a work injury, Blumenberg is forced to work as a night watchman.

Blumenberg became a member of the SPD as early as 1920 . In addition to his work as a night watchman, he begins to write articles for social democratic newspapers. Blumenberg was editor of the Volksblatt Göttingen from 1925 to 1927 . From 1928 he was local editor of the people's will published in Hanover . In his spare time he often appeared as a speaker for the regional SPD.

In the resistance against National Socialism , Blumenberg published the socialist papers in 1933/34 and organized the Socialist Front . When this comparatively large social democratic resistance group was discovered and rolled up by the Gestapo , he managed to escape to Holland on the night of August 16-17, 1936. He did not return to Germany.

From 1945 to 1965 he was head of the Germany department of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.

Honors

Front of the Werner-Blumenberg-Haus in Limmerstrasse

reminiscent of the Democrat's name:

  • since 1974 the senior citizens' residential complex Werner-Blumenberg-Haus in Hanover, on Pfarrlandplatz between Velvetstrasse and Pfarrlandstrasse and
  • since 1984 the Werner-Blumenberg-Weg in Hanover-Wettbergen.

Fonts (selection)

  • An unknown chapter from Marx's life. Letters to the Dutch relatives . In: International Review of Social History . 1. Jg., 1956, No. 1, pp. 54-111.
  • Correspondence. Moses Hess . Edited by Edmund Silberner . With support from Werner Blumenberg. Mouton & Co., 's-Gravenhage 1959. (= Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement . Volume II)
  • Fighters for freedom. To. JHW Dietz, Berlin and Hanover 1959.
  • Karl Kautsky's literary work. A bibliographical overview. Ed. Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam. Mouton & Co., 's-Gravenhage 1960.
  • Karl Marx in personal testimonials and photo documents. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1962. (= Rowohlt's monographs . Volume 76) (28th edition 2004)
    • Het leven van Karl Marx. 1963/65 with a large number of translations.
  • August Bebel's correspondence with Friedrich Engels . Mouton & Co., London, The Hague 1965. (= Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement . Volume IV)

literature

  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 1, p. 586.
  • Herbert Obenaus : Bourgeois in the Social Democratic Resistance. The fall of the Socialist Front in Hanover. In: History in 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 , Berlin 2012, pp. 107–128, here pp. 107 ff.
  • B. Rabe: The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936 , 1984.
  • Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Hannover Chronik . GoogleBooks
  • 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 .
  • Christoph Stamm: Werner Blumenberg (1900–1965) . In: Günter Benser, Michael Schneider (ed.): Preserve, spread, enlighten . Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-105-8 , pp. 41-46, library.fes.de
  • Ruth Schwake: Werner Blumenberg House . In: Hannover 1933-1945 / An anti-fascist city guide through the ANDERE Hannover . State capital Hanover, White Rose leisure and education center, Klaus Vespermann (ViSdP), November 1989
  • Ruth Schwake: Werner Blumenberg. Socialist, anti-fascist, resistance fighter, emigrant. A biographical documentation , 1987
  • K. Theilen (arr.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933–1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover , 2000
  • Klaus Mlynek: BLUMENBERG, (2) Werner. 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. 58 and others; online through google books
  • Klaus Mlynek: Blumenberg, (2) Werner. 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. 69.

Web links

Commons : Werner Blumenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Blumenberg, Werner. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 69


personal data
SURNAME Blumenberg, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hülsede
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1965
Place of death Amsterdam