Wilhelm Novy

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Wilhelm Novy (born February 20, 1892 in Zuckmantel near Teplitz , Bohemia , † April 6, 1978 in Landshut ) was an Austro-Hungarian or Czechoslovak politician.

Life and activity

Novy was one of six children of the glass blower Wenceslaus Novy and his wife Sophie.

In 1912 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SDAP).

From 1915 to 1918 Novy took part in the First World War with the Austro-Hungarian Army . After the war he became a full-time party functionary: from 1919 to 1926 he acted as district secretary of the DSAP in Dux and then from 1927 to 1938 as district secretary in Eger. From 1927 to 1938 he was also a member of the city council of Eger and from 1934 to 1938 of the Bohemian state representation.

After the National Socialists came to power in Germany in the spring, Novy began to work against the Nazi state from Bohemia. According to reports from the National Socialist surveillance organs, he took part in the smuggling of illegal social democratic pamphlets into Germany and in the collection of information for reports on political and social events within the Reich.

In the wake of the annexation of the Sudeten areas by the German Reich, Novy emigrated to Great Britain in October 1938. When in 1938 the intention of the National Socialist leadership became apparent to annex parts of Czechoslovakia by force, drafted a plan dated September 18, 1938 to counter German aggression under the title “The organized uprising in Eger”.

After such plans could not be realized, Novy fled in October 1938 to emigrate to Great Britain. Since he had exposed himself as an enemy of the Hitler dictatorship through his active activities against the National Socialist expansionist efforts, Novy was placed on the so-called special wanted list GB by the Reich Security Main Office in the spring of 1940 , a list of people who were considered particularly dangerous by the leadership of the SS and Gestapo - or were particularly hated by her - which, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles, were to be arrested automatically and with priority by SS special forces.

In 1949 Novy was naturalized in Great Britain. In 1964 he moved to Germany.

family

In 1934 he married Klara Netsch (* 1907). He had three children from a previous marriage. Sophie (* 1914), Edith (* 1929) and Irmgard (* 1934).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bors Celovsky: Germanisierung und Genozid, 2005, p. 114.
  2. ^ Adolf Hasenöhrl: Struggle, resistance, persecution of the Sudeten German social democrats. Documentation of the German Social Democrats from Czechoslovakia in the fight against Henlein and Hitler , p. 256.
  3. ^ Entry on Wilhelm Novy in the special wanted list GB on the website of the Imperial War Museum
personal data
SURNAME Novy, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian or Czechoslovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Zuckmantel near Teplitz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1978
Place of death Landshut