1. Eugen Anton Bolz was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Germany's Nazi regime.
11 Facts About Eugen Bolz
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Eugen Bolz married Maria Hoeness from Ulm in 1920 and they had one daughter.
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Eugen Bolz took his Abitur in 1900 at the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart.
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Eugen Bolz was involved in the Windthorstbund, the youth organization of the Centre Party.
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Eugen Bolz became a member of the Catholic student associations AV Guestfalia Tubingen, the KDStV Bavaria Bonn and the KAV Suevia Berlin, all in the CV.
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Eugen Bolz then completed the traineeship in Rottenburg, Ravensburg and Stuttgart.
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Since he was an adherent of Catholic social teaching, which made no secret of its loathing for the Nazis, it was no surprise that Eugen Bolz was one of the new regime's greatest opponents.
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Eugen Bolz readily declared that he would like to take over a ministerial post in the new government after Hitler was overthrown.
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Eugen Bolz was arrested on 12 August 1944, and on 21 December, he was sentenced to death at the German "People's Court".
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Eugen Bolz was beheaded at Plotzensee Prison in Berlin on 23 January 1945.
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In 2004, a new bell at the church where Eugen Bolz was baptized, St Moriz in Rottenburg am Neckar, was named after him.