Alfred Schröer

Alfred Schröer (born November 12, 1895 in Neukrausendorf near Waldenburg in Lower Silesia ; † August 28, 1970 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German politician ( KPD , SPD ).

Live and act

Alfred Schröer grew up in Lower Silesia, attended elementary school in Waldenburg from 1903 to 1910 and then worked as a miner. In 1912 he moved to Essen , where he also worked in the mining industry. He joined the miners' union "Alter Verband" and in 1913 became a member of the SPD. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .

After the end of the war, Schröer joined the KPD in January 1919. He worked as a miner until 1923, then as a full-time party secretary. In May 1924 he was elected as a candidate of his party for constituency 22 (Düsseldorf-Ost) as a member of the Reichstag , to which he belonged until the elections in December 1924 . From January 1925 he worked as party secretary in Gelsenkirchen and was subdistrict leader there. In July 1925 he took part as a delegate at the 10th party congress of the KPD in Berlin . In 1926 he became secretary of the KPD district leadership. From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the Gelsenkirchen city council and chairman of the KPD parliamentary group. A renewed candidacy for the Reichstag was unsuccessful.

After the National Socialists came to power , Alfred Schröer was arrested in early 1933 and imprisoned in the Hamm judicial prison for a few weeks . After his release from prison, he was unemployed. In October 1935 he was arrested again, followed by remand in the Hammer court prison. In April 1936 he was sentenced to two years in prison by the 4th Criminal Senate of the Hamm Higher Regional Court for “preparation for high treason”, including seven months and one week of pre-trial detention. He served his prison sentence until his release on June 7, 1937 in the Bochum prison . Then he worked as a construction worker. He was excluded from military service because of his conviction as a high traitor. From 1944 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in a punitive battalion "on probation" .

After Alfred Schröer was classified as unencumbered by the denazification committee after 1945, he became politically active again. He first earned his wages as an iron weaver in the construction industry and then as an innkeeper in Gelsenkirchen. In 1948 he was again city councilor and chairman of the KPD parliamentary group. In 1952 he was expelled from the KPD as a "Titoist" due to political differences. In 1954 he rejoined the SPD.

Alfred Schröer had been married since 1920. He spent his old age in Gelsenkirchen.

literature

Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 704 ( online at the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship ).

Web links

Alfred Schröer in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Alfred Schröer . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation. 3. Edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 , p. 445.

personal data
SURNAME	Schröer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD, SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neukrausendorf near Waldenburg in Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1970
Place of death	Gelsenkirchen

[1] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation. 3. Edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 , p. 445.