Hölzel, Friedrich August

Bricklayer, trade union secretary

Born: 16.04.1897 in Dotzheim

Died: 16.10.1944 in Dachau concentration camp

Throughout his life, Hölzel was closely associated with his home community of Dotzheim as well as the local craftsmen and social democrats. From 1924, he was a member of the municipal council as an alderman. He was also a board member of the Dotzheim workers' gymnastics club. As a member of the bricklaying trade, he joined the Deutscher Baugewerksbund in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, where he worked as union secretary from 1926.

From 1927, his party sent him to the Nassau municipal parliament, initially as a successor to the former SPD deputy Johann Georg Scheffler. In 1930, Hölzel was elected to the local state parliament for the Wiesbaden district and remained a member of this parliament until the dissolution of the local state parliament in 1933.

As the building trade union federation was brought into line by the National Socialists in 1933, Hölzel lost his position there. The following years of the trade unionist's life were marked by political persecution. In 1940, he spent two weeks in custody for listening to foreign radio stations. At the beginning of the 1940s, he found employment again as a bricklayer with a building contractor in Dotzheim. After the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, Hölzel was arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp, where he died shortly afterwards.