Albert Bassüner

Albert Bassüner (born January 25, 1891 in Wittenberg , † March 23, 1946 in Piesteritz ) was a German KPD and KPO functionary and anti-fascist resistance fighter .

Life

In the mid-1920s, the laborer's son Albert Bassüner, who was employed as a factory worker in the Piesteritz nitrogen works , was elected chairman of the works council and only joined the USPD and in 1920 the KPD, for which he became a member of the Provincial Parliament of Merseburg .

At the eleventh party congress of the KPD in 1927, at which Bassuner participated as secretary, he was elected as a candidate for the central committee of the KPD . Bassüner belonged to the right wing of the KPD and criticized the ultra-left course of the leadership around the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann . In connection with the Wittorf affair , Bassüner, Erich Hausen , Heinrich Galm and others strongly criticized Thälmann. Bassüner even applied to expel Chairman Thälmann from the KPD. On December 29, 1928, Bassüner was excluded from the KPD because of his refusal to implement resolutions of the Central Committee. The Communist International agreed to his exclusion. He switched to the KPO and was a leading member there.

Against the resistance of the KPD Bassüner was re-elected chairman of the General German Trade Union Confederation in Wittenberg in February 1929 . In 1932, Bassüner moved to SAP and, after the handover of power to the National Socialists , continued the party work even in illegality . Bassüner was arrested in July 1935 and interned in the Lichtenburg concentration camp until the end of World War II . A few months after his liberation, Albert Bassüner died in Piesteritz in 1946.

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 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Hirschinger: Gestapo agents, Trotskyists, traitors . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Berlin 2005 ( online ).