Johann Geusendam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johann Geusendam

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1866

Place of Birth: Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1945

Profession: politician, resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Johann Geusendam

  • Johann Geusendam (24 February 1886 - 6 April 1945) was a Dutchman who moved with his fiancĂ©e to Bremen in 1905 in order to improve his job prospects.
  • Bremen was a geographically small but industrially, commercially and economically dynamic "autonomous component state" which had become part of Germany in 1871.Geusendam was politically engaged and became increasingly active.
  • This came to the attention of the authorities.
  • In 1908, after taking part in a strike, still aged only 22, he was identified as a "troublesome foreigner" ("lästiger Ausländer") and deported from Bremen.
  • Till 1933 Germany resisted pressure to copy the Anglo-French model of an ever more centrally controlled state, and Geusendam's expulsion became the focus of a thirty year foreign policy debate in the Bremen BĂĽrgerschaft (parliament) as to whether or not depriving a man of citizens' rights fell within the competence of the city authorities and their senate.One reason that Geusendam was the focus of the debate for so long is that after his expulsion he soon returned, illegally, to Bremen for family reasons, and the authorities grudgingly suspended his expulsion.
  • He was expelled again in 1921 but managed, with the support of the labour movement, to remain in Bremen till 1931, when he really was expelled.
  • The family relocated briefly to the Soviet Union.
  • Later he fell foul of the Hitler government as a result of his political activities in the border region between the Netherlands and Germany.
  • He was arrested in 1940 and held in government detention at a succession of institutions till, through physical mistreatment and malnutrition, he died in April 1945.

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