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Altona Bloody Sunday
Altona Bloody Sunday () is the name given to the events of 17 July 1932 when a recruitment march by the Sturmabteilung, Nazi SA led to violent clashes between the police, the SA and supporters of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Altona, Hamburg, Altona, which at the time belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein but is now part of Hamburg. Eighteen people were killed. The national government under Chancellor of Germany, Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen and President of Germany (1919–1945), Reich President Paul von Hindenburg used the incident as a rationale to depose the acting government of the Free State of Prussia by means of an emergency decree in what came to be known as the 1932 Prussian coup d'état, Prussian coup d'état of 20 July 1932. Background On 16 June 1932 the Papen government, in order to show its gratitude to the Nazism, Nazi Party for tolerating their minority cabinet, lifted the ban on the Schutzstaffel, SS and Sturmabt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altona, Hamburg
Altona (), also called Hamburg-Altona, is the westernmost Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg#Boroughs, urban borough (''Bezirk'') of the Germany, German States of Germany, city state of Hamburg. Located on the right bank of the Elbe river, Altona had a population of 270,263 in 2016. From 1640 to 1864, Altona was under the administration of the Denmark, Danish monarchy. Altona was an independent borough until 1937. History Danish period Altona was founded in 1535 as a village of fishermen in what was then Holstein-Pinneberg. In 1640, Altona came under Denmark-Norway, Danish rule as part of Holstein-Glückstadt, and in 1664 was granted town rights, municipal rights by the Danish King Frederik III of Denmark, Frederik III, who then ruled in personal union as Duke of Holstein. Altona was one of the Danish monarchy's most important harbor towns. The railway from Altona to Kiel, the Hamburg-Altona–Kiel railway (), was opened in 1844. Imperial period The wars between Denmark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazism
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently referred to as Hitler Fascism () and Hitlerism (). The term " neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideology, which formed after World War II, and after Nazi Germany collapsed. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. Its beliefs include support for dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics. The ultranationalism of the Nazis originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German ultranationalism since the late 19th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falk Harnack
Falk Harnack (2 March 1913 – 3 September 1991) was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Greece. Harnack was from a family of scholars, artists and scientists, several of whom were active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and paid with their lives. Early life Falk Erich Walter Harnack was the younger son of the painter Clara Harnack (née Reichau) and literary historian Otto Harnack; a nephew of the theologian Adolf von Harnack and Erich Harnack, professor of pharmacology and chemistry; the grandson of theologian Theodosius Harnack and the younger brother of the jurist and German Resistance fighter Arvid Harnack. He was also a cousin of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ernst von Harnack, who, like his brother and sister-in-law, Mildred Harnack, also became victims of the Third Reich. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Axe Of Wandsbek (1951 Film)
''The Axe of Wandsbek'' (German: ''Das Beil von Wandsbek'') is a 1951 East German film, directed by Falk Harnack. Plot 1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. Being broke, Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide. Cast * Erwin Geschonneck: Albert Teetjen * Willy A. Kleinau: Hans Peter Footh * Käthe Braun: Stine Teetjen * Gefion Helmke: Dr. Käthe Neumeier * Arthur Schröder: Dr. Koldewey * Ursula Meißner: Annette Koldewey * Helmuth Hinzelmann: Colonel Lintze * Erika Dannhoff: Lene Prestow * Fritz Wisten: Siegfri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Lütgens
August Lütgens (16 December 1897 – 1 August 1933) was a communist activist who spent the 1920s exiled in the Soviet Union. On returning to Germany in 1930 or 1931 he became a leading member of the paramilitary "Red Front-Fighters" (''"Roter Frontkämpferbund"'' / RFB) in the politically volatile Hamburg region. In 1932 he was involved in the Altona Bloody Sunday street battle and, following the National Socialist power grab at the start of 1933, he became a victim of "Nazi justice". On 1 August 1933 August Lütgens was executed: four men were convicted and executed at the same time, but Lütgens was identified at the time as the leading figure among them, and of the four cases, it is the one involving Lütgens that has received the most coverage subsequently. As one of the first and most highly publicised government opponents to be executed after the rapid switch to dictatorship in 1933, August Lütgens was soon being celebrated by government opponents as "one of the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Tesch (antifascist)
Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch (22 April 1913 – 1 August 1933) was a German Communist Party of Germany, communist and member of the Young Communist League of Germany. At age 20, he was convicted of murder and executed in connection with the Altona Bloody Sunday riot (''Altonaer Blutsonntag''), a Sturmabteilung (SA) march on 17 July 1932 that turned violent and led to 18 people being shot and killed. His conviction was overturned in November 1992. Life Born in Kiel, Germany, to an Italian mother, Tesch spent his childhood in Italy before moving to live with his stepfather in Hamburg in 1925, where he was an apprentice plumber. Finding himself unemployed after his apprenticeship was over, he entered the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD), or Volunteer Work Service. Politically radical, he joined the Socialist Worker Youth (''Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend'') in 1930, but soon switched to the Young Communist League of Germany (''Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands''). Alton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Christians (movement)
German Christians () were a Advocacy group, pressure group and a movement within the German Evangelical Church that existed between 1933 and 1945, aligned towards the Antisemitism, antisemitic, Nazi racial theories, racist, and ''Führerprinzip'' ideological principles of Nazism with the goal to Positive Christianity, align German Protestantism as a whole towards those principles. Their advocacy of these principles led to a schism within 23 of the initially 28 Landeskirche, regional church bodies (''Landeskirchen'') in Nazi Germany, Germany and the attendant foundation of the opposing Confessing Church in 1934. was a co-founder of the German Christians movement. History Antecedents Lutheranism Imperial Germany During the period of the German Empire, before the Weimar Republic, the Protestant churches (''Landeskirchen'') in Germany were divided along state and province, provincial borders. Each state or provincial church was supported by and affiliated with the royal family, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barmen Declaration
__NOTOC__ The Barmen Declaration or the Theological Declaration of Barmen 1934 (German: ''Die Barmer Theologische Erklärung'') was a document adopted by Christians in Nazi Germany who opposed the German Christian movement. In the view of the delegates to the Synod that met in the city of Wuppertal-Barmen in May 1934, the German Christians had corrupted church government by making it subservient to the state and had introduced Nazi ideology into the German Protestant churches that contradicted the Christian gospel. The Barmen Declaration includes six theses: # The only source of revelation is the Word of God — Jesus Christ. Any other possible sources (earthly powers, for example) will not be accepted. # Jesus Christ is the only Lord of all aspects of personal life. There should be no other authority. # The message and order of the church should not be influenced by the current political convictions. # Leadership in the church is not dominion, it is in service of its ministr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Asmussen
Hans Christian Asmussen (born 21 August 1898 in Flensburg — died 30 December 1968 in Speyer) was a German Evangelical and Lutheran theologian. Asmussen was a pastor in Altona, Hamburg. He was removed from office by the Nazis because of his activity in the Reich Fraternal Council of the Confessing Church. He was jailed several times before 1945. He was co-author of the protest "Word and Affirmation of Altona Pastors amid the Misery and Confusion of Public Life" (11 January 1933), which rejected a pact with National Socialism and thus became a preliminary step toward the theological declaration of the Barmen Confessional Synod. From 1945 to 1948, Asmussen presided over the Evangelical Church Chancellery, and from 1949 to 1955, he was dean () in Kiel; he was a promoter of ecumenical dialogue. His writings include ''Seelsorge'' (Pastoral Care; 1934) and ''Der Römerbrief'' (Letter to the Romans; 1952). Life Early life Asmussen, the son of a headmaster, Jes Georg Asmussen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altona
Altona may refer to: Places Australia * Altona Beach, in Altona, Victoria, Australia * Altona Meadows, Victoria, Australia * Altona North, Victoria, Australia * Altona, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia ** Altona railway station ** Altona Refinery * City of Altona, west of Melbourne * Electoral district of Altona, a former electoral district in Victoria, Australia Canada * Altona, Manitoba, Canada * Altona, Ontario, Canada Germany * Altona, Hamburg (or Hamburg-Altona), a borough of Hamburg **Altona-Nord, or Hamburg-Altona-Nord, a district of Hamburg, Germany **Altona-Altstadt, or Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt, a district of Hamburg, Germany **Hamburg-Altona station **Hamburg-Altona–Kiel railway **Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway **Hamburg-Altona link line **Hamburg-Altona (electoral district) ** Fischmarkt Hamburg-Altona, a logistics company in Hamburg, Germany **Luna Park Hamburg-Altona, an amusement park in Hamburg, Germany **Altona Volkspark, an urban park in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
