Alfred Kiss

Alfred Paul Kiss (born August 1, 1894 in Dölau , Greiz ) was a German trade union official.

Life and activity

Kiss learned the trade of clerk. In 1911 he joined the ZdA and in 1912 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1913 to 1914 Kiss held his first public office as chairman of the local ZdA group in Greiz . From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the community in Weida . He then served as district chairman of the USPD in Meißen-Riesa-Großenhain until 1922. From 1921 to 1933 Kiss was working secretary of the ADGB local committee Riesa , SPD local chairman, member of the district executive committee, chief lay judge and city councilor.

After the National Socialists came to power , Kiss was temporarily imprisoned. In July 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia. In December 1938 he went to Great Britain. After the beginning of the Second World War, he was interned there from July to November 1940 as a member of a hostile power, but was finally released again, classified as politically reliable. During the war he was a member of the SPD in London.

From April 1945 Kiss was in the service of the American intelligence service OSS , which initially deployed him in the Ruhr area. He first came to Cologne, from where he prepared reports on the political situation. Later he was employed by the Information Control Division (ICD) of the American military government in Bavaria as an investigator in Augsburg . On December 1, 1949, Kiss resigned from the trade unions. He became a clerk at the union council and then managing director of the Stuttgart branch of the German white-collar union as well as district manager of the same in Koblenz and in Aalen .

literature

• Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss : Politics, Economy, Public Life , 1980, p. 365.