Alfred Gottschalk (politician)

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Alfred Gottschalk (born January 15, 1863 in Königsberg ; † September 1, 1942 there ) was a German doctor for the poor and a social democratic politician .

Life

Gottschalk joined the Königsberg SPD as a young medical student and later worked as a doctor for the poor. A group photo of the East Prussian party executive at the beginning of the 20th century shows him with Hugo Haase , Otto Braun , Adolf Hofer and Arthur Crispien . He was close friends with Hugo Haase. As party leader of the Königsberg SPD he followed Haase into the USPD in 1917 with a majority of the Königsberg comrades . After the split in the USPD, he rejoined the SPD and was chairman of the Königsberg SPD and group chairman in the city council.

On his 70th birthday he was recognized in the Königsberger Volkszeitung. A few weeks later, Gottschalk was beaten out of the city parliament by the National Socialists, interned for a while in Fort Quednau , then discriminated, harassed and driven from his apartment. He was also banned from practicing Jewish doctors. On September 1, 1942, he died in the Hospital of Mercy in Koenigsberg, shortly before he was deported to Theresienstadt .

literature

  • Königsberger People's Newspaper . January 13, 1933.
  • Wilhelm Matull : East Prussia's labor movement. History and performance at a glance. Wuerzburg 1970.
  • Wilhelm Matull: Back then in Königsberg. A book of memories of East Prussia. Munich [1978], ISBN 3-7742-3622-4 .
  • Wilhelm Matull, Max Sommerfeld: The share of the East Prussian labor movement in the resistance against National Socialism. In: Yearbook of the Albertus University in Königsberg, Prussia. 17: 164-178 (1967).
  • Sabine Roß: Biographical manual of the Reichsrätekongresse 1918/19. Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, p. 135.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo of the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage .
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalk, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor for the poor and social democratic politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1942
Place of death Koenigsberg