Hans Adlhoch (29 January 1884-21 May 1945) was a German Bavarian People's Party politician and Catholic labor union activist who was interned at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II.
Biography[]
Hans Adlhoch was born in Straubing, Lower Bavaria, German Empire in 1884. He joined the Christian workers' and trade union movement in 1898, and, after an apprenticeship as a carpenter and traveling in Europe, he became secretary of the Catholic workers' and women's associations in the diocese of Augsburg in 1910. He came to head the Catholic People's Office from 1914 to 1918 and the Workers' Secretariat in Augsburg from 1919, and he was involved in social insurance programs and Catholic associations. He joined the Bavarian People's Party before serving on the Augsburg city council from 1925 to 1933, and he served as a member of the Reichstag from 27 January 1933 to March 1933. He was imprisoned from June to July 1933 for his anti-Nazi activism and sent to Dachau from May to October 1935. Afterwards, he returned to his workers' activism, and he was involved in the war relief service in Brest, France during World War II. He was accused of involvement with the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler's life in 1944 and was arrested in Operation Gitter, after which he was imprisoned at Dachau from September 1944 to April 1945. At the end of April 1945, the SS sent Adlhoch and 1,400 other prisoners on a death march south. While he was liberated by the Allies, he died at a military hospital in Freimann, near Munich, on 21 May 1945. His name is listed among the Tiergarten's 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the Nazis, and the Catholic Church included him as a martyr in the German Martyrology of the 20th century.