POST Luxembourg Marks 83rd Anniversary of Postal Workers’ Strike

On Monday 1 September 2025, POST Luxembourg marked the 83rd anniversary of the postal workers’ strike against the Nazi occupation with a commemorative ceremony at the plaque “To our Heroes and Martyrs” in the entrance hall of POST Technologies in Cloche d’Or.

The plaque, featuring ‘St George slaying the dragon’, a bronze by Auguste Trémont, served as the backdrop for the event organised by the Amicale of POST Luxembourg.

The commemoration ceremony took place in the presence of members of the victims’ families Luxembourg’s Minister of the Economy, Lex Delles, First Alderman of the City of Luxembourg, Maurice Bauer, members of the Board of Directors, management representatives and members of the Amicale of POST Luxembourg.

The welcoming words of the Amicale de POST Luxembourg President, Mike Orazi,, Mike Orazi, were followed by speeches from Cliff Konsbruck, Deputy CEO of POST Luxembourg, Mr Bauer and Minister Delles.

Background

By way of historical reminder, on Sunday 30 August 1942, Gauleiter Simon made public the decree imposing compulsory military service in the Wehrmacht on Luxembourgish classes born between 1920 and 1924. Initiated by trade unions and resistance movements, a strike against the forced conscription of some 15,000 Luxembourgers by the Nazi occupier began in Wiltz before spreading to the capital and the south of the country. Postal workers Nicky Konz and Jean Schroeder, both aged 28, were the first to be arrested in Luxembourg City. Following this revolt, death sentences were pronounced by special courts and immediately carried out.

In addition to Konz and Schroeder, executed on 3 and 4 September 1942 at the Hinzert concentration camp, nine postal staff who took part in the strike at Luxembourg City’s central post office were brought before the Standgericht and sentenced, together with 37 other Luxembourgish strikers, to various penalties. In total, 22 postal workers were deported to concentration camps, where six were killed. Another ten were imprisoned, two of whom died in custody.