Wilhelm Franke (antifascist)

Wilhelm Franke (born July 29, 1891 in Saarburg , † February 14, 1945 in Dresden ) was a social democratic city councilor and anti-fascist .

Life

Wilhelm Franke worked as a teacher in the Dresden suburb of Blasewitz and the neighboring district of Striesen . In 1919 he joined the SPD and became a member of the board of the Dresden Adult Education Center, newly founded by Kurt Schumann . Franke actively advocated the introduction of a single school . In 1926 he was elected city councilor in Dresden. In this function he worked on the DREWAG supervisory board as well as on the constitution and school committee. He was elected 2nd chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the self-protection organization Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , which is dominated by social democrats , he held the function of the 2nd Gau chairman of the East Saxony district and at the same time the 1st chairman of the Dresden branch.

In March 1933, shortly after the seizure of power , Wilhelm Franke was arrested in Plauen in Vogtland and dismissed from school. After his release from prison, he and his wife opened a cigar shop in Dresden. This shop also served as an illegal meeting place for the Dresden SPD comrades, who maintained their connections with one another and supported themselves and their relatives. In 1944 Franke was arrested again by the Gestapo and his shop closed. On February 14, 1945, he and his family were killed in the air raids on Dresden .

Commemoration

In 1946 the former Finckenfangstrasse in Dresden's Leubnitz-Neuostra district was renamed Wilhelm-Franke-Strasse . From 1988 to 1990, today's 68th primary school "Am Heiligen Born", where Franke had worked as a teacher, was given the honorary name "Wilhelm Franke". A sandstone block with an inscription still reminds of Wilhelm Franke at the location of the school at Heiligenbornstraße 15.

literature

Wilhelm Franke . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden : Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 26f.

Individual evidence

↑ File DY 55 / V 278/6/414 of the biographical collection of the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Federal Archives

↑ Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl and Regina Scheer: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 654.

^ Herbert Goldhammer (ed.), Karin Jeschke (ed.): Dresden memorials for the victims of the Nazi regime . ddp goldenbogen, Dresden, 2002, ISBN 978-3-932434-18-1 , page 120.

personal data
SURNAME	Franke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	social democratic city councilor and anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saarburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1945
Place of death	Dresden

[1] File DY 55 / V 278/6/414 of the biographical collection of the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Federal Archives

[2] Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl and Regina Scheer: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 654.

[3] Herbert Goldhammer (ed.), Karin Jeschke (ed.): Dresden memorials for the victims of the Nazi regime . ddp goldenbogen, Dresden, 2002, ISBN 978-3-932434-18-1 , page 120.