Adolf Dannat

Adolf Dannat (born February 25, 1885 in Franzdorf , Insterburg district , † August 1, 1922 in Bremen ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and from 1920/21 a member of the Bremen citizenship .

Life

After elementary school, Dannat learned the trade of a former and later worked as a warehouse keeper. Before the First World War he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). During the war he had contact with Anton Pannekoek and Johann Knief , who advocated a German Soviet republic.

Dannat was a co-founder of the newspaper Arbeiterpolitik and took part in the founding party convention of the KPD in Berlin in 1919 as a representative of the briefly existing SPD split-off of International Communists Germany (IKD) .

In January and February 1919, Dannat was the People's Representative in the Bremen Soviet Republic , after which he became auditor and assessor of the KPD Bremen. In 1920 he was elected to the Bremen citizenship, to which he belonged until 1921. A year later, Dannat died of tuberculosis.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).