Wilhelm Hahn junior

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Wilhelm Hahn junior (born January 5, 1904 in Ricklingen , † January 21, 1975 in Hanover ) was a German locksmith and elevator operator as well as a social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Born at the time of the German Empire in Ricklingen, an old village that was incorporated into Linden in 1913 and became a district of the later state capital with the merger of the previously independent industrial city of Linden with Hanover in 1920, Wilhelm Hahn junior began after the First World War and at the beginning During the Weimar Republic, at the age of 14, a four-year apprenticeship as a fitter at the Hanoverian Waggonfabrik (HAWA). Also in 1918 he joined the German Metalworkers' Association .

After Wilhelm Hahn junior had passed his journeyman's examination in 1922 , HAWA took him over as a fitter. In the same year he joined the Social Democratic Party , a (SPD), for which he later the office of treasurer in the constituency took Ricklingen.

When the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold was founded in 1924 at the age of twenty, Wilhelm Hahn became a member of this social democratic alliance. In addition, he was elected chairman of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) for the Ricklingen district, then also the Young Socialists and the Ricklinger Young Banner . As a member of the SPD he got to know numerous comrades of his party, in particular Franz Nause and Heinrich Gehrke .

During the Great Depression Hahn lost his job in 1931 as a fitter at HAWA and then remained for several years due to its honorary positions not indeed actually unemployed , but unemployed , ie without their own income .

In the year of the National Socialists' seizure of power , Hahn learned in spring 1933 of the intention of the SPD to "[...] continue to run the party with the rejection of the old party board ", and thereupon declared his willingness to cooperate the Nazi regime . A later accusation made by the public prosecutor that Hahn and Heinrich Gehrke secretly brought pistols to Gottlieb Wittrock in the summer of 1933 could not be proven.

In the following years Wilhelm Hahn was regularly supplied with the now illegal newspaper Sozialistische Blätter for further distribution by Heinrich Gehrke, who was then head of Department 1 of the Socialist Front (SF) in Oberricklingen . After "Hein" Gehrke took on another task in the SF, Hahn then headed Department 1 from the end of 1934 and beginning of 1935 , and again supplied Gehrke with the socialist papers after he had previously picked them up from Heinrich Wellern and there later the "reading money “Settled. Also of Heinrich Wellern received Hahn now writing other officials that should be passed on to department heads if necessary or appropriate opportunity.

Hahn was also the liaison to some of the Hanoverian police officers who sympathized with the SF . This was one of the reasons why the SF was still able to organize an - illegal - May Day celebration in Ricklingen in 1935 and regularly distribute up to 150 to 180 copies of the also illegal newspaper Sozialistische Blätter . Hahn received part of this from the end of 1934, regularly every four to six weeks, 60 copies, which he then distributed in various quantities to Heinrich Wellern, Ernst Pleitner, August Hahn, Heinrich Gehrke and Rudolf Wittrock , individual copies also to Hugo Bestel, Richard Ladwig, Simon Sutter, Karl Ude, Luise Ilten and Therese Wittrock . Occasionally Hahn deliberately "accidentally" lost one or the other of the socialist papers on the way to work.

Also in 1935, after years of unemployment, Hahn found a paid job again, this time as "[...] elevator operator at the Schünemann company in Hanover, Ricklinger Stadtweg 24."

On September 9, 1936 Wilhelm Hahn was junior by the Gestapo in his apartment on hawthorn four arrested and several weeks later on 28 October of that year in detention in the Hanoverian court prison transferred. On October 28, 1937, Wilhelm Hahn was sentenced in a group trial against a total of 57 defendants by the Hamm Higher Regional Court to 4 years and 9 months in prison , with his rights being temporarily withdrawn .

Hahn's father, Wilhelm Hahn senior , was investigated in the same process; however, he was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Wilhelm Hahn junior served his sentence in Hameln penitentiary before he was released from prison on November 9, 1941 , in the middle of World War II - after only a little longer than his previously pronounced prison term. Hahn remained under police supervision until the end of the war or until the end of National Socialism .

Wilhelm Hahn junior was a long-term tenant in the Laveshaus . After his death in 1975 he was buried in the Ricklingen city cemetery.

Wilhelm-Hahn-Weg

With the Wilhelm-Hahn-Weg , laid out in 1984 in the Hanoverian district of Wettbergen , the state capital Hanover has since posthumously honored the social democratic functionary and resistance fighter by naming the street.

Archival material

Archival material on Hahn's biography and work can be found, for example

literature

  • Bernd Rabe : The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1984, ISBN 3-7716-2309-X .
  • Karin Theilen (arr.): Socialist sheets. The organ of the “Socialist Front” in Hanover 1933–1936 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 197). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5813-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hahn, Wilhelm (jun.) In the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of August 11, 2006, last accessed on March 29, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Klaus Mlynek : Hahn, (3) Wilhelm, jun. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 147 ( online via Google books ).
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Ricklingen. 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. 522f.
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 406–409.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Diana Schulle (ed.), Susanne Brömel, Christine Müller-Botsch, Johannes Tuchel (collaborators): Biographies: Wilhelm Hahn jun. ... on the page Sozialistische-front.de , publisher: German Resistance Memorial Center with the support of the Lindener Geschichtswerkstatt in the Linden leisure center
  6. ↑ Compare the extract from the judgment of October 28, 1937, file number 5 0.Js. 41/37 , digitized version from the German Federal Archives as a PDF document
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wilhelm-Hahn-Weg , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 267.
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Wilhelm junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German locksmith, party functionary, convicted resistance fighter against the National Socialists
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ricklingen
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1975
Place of death Hanover