Career
Vogt was the chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Bochum and secretary of the economic-political department of the Bergbauindustriearbeiterverbandes ("Mining Industry Workers" Union"). In 1932, he served in the Prussian diet as a representative from the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party of Germany). After the Machtergreifung of the Nazis, Vogt and his family moved to Saarland, which was then not in the German Reich.
However, shortly thereafter, Saarland became reintegrated into the German Reich, causing Vogt to again move, this time to the Netherlands.
In Paris, he helped establish the Arbeitsausschuss freigewerkschaftlicher Bergarbeiter Deutschland ("Working Committee of the Mine Workers of Germany") and became the secretary of this organization. In Amsterdam, he published the Bergarbeiter-Mitteilungen ("Mine Workers" Newsletter") and Bergarbeiter-Zeitung ("Mine Workers" Newspaper").
The city of Bochum decided in 1983 to name a street in his honor, Franz-Vogt-Straße, near where Vogt and his family once lived.