Alfred Buhler

Alfred Buhler (born January 14, 1890 in Bürgel , Thuringia ; † May 31, 1977 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SPD / SED ). He was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Buhler, the son of a tailor , learned the trade of light pressure - retoucher or the floor worker in Burgel. In 1908 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Association of Lithographers and Stone Printers . In 1910/11 he attended Otto Rühle's courses in Jena . From 1915 to 1918 Buhler was drafted as a soldier for military service. During the November Revolution he was a member of the Rostock Soldiers' Council .

After his return he was one of the founders of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) in Bürgel. In 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in August 1921 was a delegate at the 7th Party Congress of the KPD, which met in Jena. From 1922 he was full-time subdistrict head of the KPD in Sangerhausen and Merseburg and after moving to Rostock there from 1922/23 to 1927 secretary of the KPD subdistrict Rostock. The delegates at the 8th Party Congress in Leipzig (January 28 to February 1, 1923) appointed Buhler to the complaints commission.

On February 17, 1924, he was elected to the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for the KPD. In June 1926 and May 1927 Buhler was re-elected to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was a faction leader there at times.

In 1924/25 Buhler was also political secretary of the KPD district leadership in Mecklenburg, based in Rostock. Internal party disputes in the Rostock district between the groups around Hugo Wenzel and Buhler led to the appointment of a new district secretary, Willi Kreikemeyer , in February 1925 . The group around Wenceslas, which was supported in particular by the local groups in the countryside, belonged to the left wing. Buhler, who was also the head of the Red Aid in the district and the Rostock KPD local group, knew the Rostock communists behind him. At the end of August 1927, Buhler was expelled from the KPD, allegedly because of "irregularities". In fact, there had been renewed political differences. He initially remained in the state parliament as a non-attached member until 1929, briefly joined the SPD, but resigned in 1929 because of their approval of the construction of the armored cruiser . In 1929 he returned to Bürgel and became chairman of the local unemployment committee.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Buhler was temporarily in " protective custody ". He then worked as a worker in motorway construction until 1939 . From 1940 to 1945 he had a job as an assistant clerk at the Zeiss works in Jena.

After the war ended in 1945, Buhler rejoined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1945 to 1947 he was an employee of the employment office in Eisenberg , from 1947 to 1949 he was a cashier at the Stadtsparkasse Eisenberg. In 1949 he became a lecturer at the SED district party school " Magnus Poser " in Jena and in 1950 a teacher at the company school in Hartmannsdorf . Most recently he was an instructor for the Eisenberg district council.

literature

Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic . Volume 2. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 89.
Klaus Schwabe: Between the crown and the swastika. The activity of the social democratic parliamentary group in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state parliament 1919–1932 . A. Tykve, Böblingen 1994, ISBN 3-925434-81-X , p. 190
Buhler, Alfred . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 159.

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Kasten: Lords and servants. Social and political change in Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1867–1945 . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-4014-8 , p. 377.
↑ Ulrike Wasser: The work of the socialist youth workers in Mecklenburg in the years 1924 to 1933 . Philosophical Faculty, Department of History, University of Rostock 1997, p. 172.

personal data
SURNAME	Buhler, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD / KPD / SED). MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bürgel
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1977

[1] Bernd Kasten: Lords and servants. Social and political change in Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1867–1945 . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-4014-8 , p. 377.

[2] Ulrike Wasser: The work of the socialist youth workers in Mecklenburg in the years 1924 to 1933 . Philosophical Faculty, Department of History, University of Rostock 1997, p. 172.