Jakob Dautzenberg

Jacob Dautzenberg ( born February 2, 1897 in Wuerselen (then district Aachen, Aachen region today ); † August 20, 1979 in Aachen ) was a German politician ( KPD) and a resistance fighter against National Socialism. He was a member of the Reichstag.

Life

Dautzenberg, son of a foreman, was a trained former. In 1912, he was a union member, a member of the Communist Party in 1922. He was community representatives in hair in the district of Aachen and from 1925 deputy district council in Aachen country. In 1928 he became a full-time Communist Party secretary in Aachen (up to 1932). From 1928 to 1930 he was member of parliament for the KPD ( constituency Cologne -Aachen ). He remained until 1932 KPD secretary in Aachen, then party secretary in Cologne.

After the " seizure of power" by the Nazis in 1933, he was unemployed. In the years 1933 and 1934 he was in custody, after which he worked as a molder. Dautzenberg built in Aachen, Eschweiler to a resistance group that was rolled up in August 1944 by the Gestapo. Dautzenberg was arrested along with 200 anti-fascists. In the concentration camp Neuengamme lethal Bazillenversuche were performed on Dautzenberg. Seriously ill they managed him to the Bergen - Belsen concentration camp, where he was liberated in April 1945. When he returned to hair, his face and body were disfigured fungal growths.

In 1946 he was elected Aachen- country for the KPD in the district council. Later he worked for the KPD as a district manager in the Ruhr area until the party ban in 1956. Thereafter he lived in retirement in hair near Aachen. 1967 accused the prosecutor to him to be still been working for the illegal KPD. However, he was acquitted in court. In 1968 he joined the DKP.