Name Franz Vogt | ||
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Died May 14, 1940, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
Franz Vogt (1899 — May 14, 1940) was a German trade unionist, Social Democrat and member of the German resistance against the National Socialist regime.
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Life
Vogt was the chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Bochum and secretary of the economic-political department of the Bergbauindustriearbeiterverbandes ("Mining Industry Workers' Union"). In 1932, he served in the Prussian diet as a representative from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). As an active member of the SPD and the head of the Reichsbanner, Vogt was on the front lines of the frequent confrontations with the growing Nazi movement. After the Machtergreifung of the Nazis, Vogt and his family moved to Saarland, which was then not in the German Reich. However, shortly thereafter, Saarland became reintegrated into the German Reich, causing Vogt to again move, this time to the Netherlands.
In Amsterdam, he was a member of the German exile group, the Freie Presse ("Free Press"). In Paris, he helped establish the Arbeitsausschuss freigewerkschaftlicher Bergarbeiter Deutschland ("Working Committee of the Mine Workers of Germany") and became the secretary of this organization. In Amsterdam, he published the Bergarbeiter-Mitteilungen ("Mine Workers' Newsletter") and Bergarbeiter-Zeitung ("Mine Workers' Newspaper"). He was a member of the executive committee of the Miners' International Federation (MIF) in 1938.
Legacy
The city of Bochum decided in 1983 to name a street in his honor, Franz-Vogt-Straße, near where Vogt and his family once lived.