Friedrich Wilhelm Fränken ( German: Friedrich Wilhelm Fränken ; January 15, 1897 , Herrat - July 3, 1976 , Reidt ) - German politician, member of the KKE .
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Biography
A mechanic by profession, in 1920 joined the Communist Party of Germany . In 1927 he was elected secretary of the party committee in Dusseldorf, led the KKE faction in the city meeting of Reidt. In 1925, he led the party in Krefeld and was elected to the Landtag of the Rhine province . In 1928-1933 he was a deputy of the Prussian Landtag .
In 1924 he was sentenced by the Gladbach district court to two months of arrest for disturbing public order. On March 8, 1933, Franken was arrested and held in the Sonnenburg concentration camp until December 24, 1933. He returned to Reidt and worked as a locksmith. In April 1934, after interrogation in the Gestapo, he moved to an illegal position. In 1935 he traveled through Prague to Moscow , where he was part of the left wing of the leadership of the KKE abroad. Under the name Fritz Goltz took part in the Brussels KKE conference .
Through Paris, Franken reached Spain, where from February 1937 he served as political commissar of the Telman battalion in the 11th international brigade. In the same year he was deprived of German citizenship. After a serious wound and amputation, his hands moved to France, where he was interned in the Vernet camp. Participated in the Resistance movement in France. After the war he returned to his homeland, held the post of first secretary of the KKE in Monchengladbach .
Literature
- Gottfried hamacher. Unter Mitarbeit von André Lohmar: Gegen Hitler - Deutsche in der Résistance, in den Streitkräften der Antihitlerkoalition und der Bewegung "Freies Deutschland": Kurzbiographien . Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin. Band 53. ISBN 3-320-02941-X ( [1] )
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- Biography (German)