Alfred Schulze (politician)

Alfred Schulze (born August 26, 1904 in Hanover , † August 28, 1934 in Rostock ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Schulze learned the trade of boat builder . He joined the KPD in early 1920. On behalf of the party he came to Mecklenburg and from 1929 belonged to the KPD district leadership of Mecklenburg. In the district management he was full-time responsible for the work of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO). In 1931 he took over the chairmanship of the RGO Mecklenburg. Schulze was a staunch opponent of the National Socialists. In June 1932 Schulze was elected to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. During the third session of the state parliament on August 9, 1932, Schulze exposed the policies of the National Socialists. The compulsory labor service demanded by them should only serve to build up an army and prepare for war.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Schulze was exposed to particular persecution. He was on the list of 21 officials to be arrested immediately. Schulze took early in 1933 in the discussion part, the Emil Otto , a member of the KPD district headquarters Pomerania, as agent of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Rostock with the leading officials of the district administration - among others Hans Warnke , Hermann Schuldt , Bernhard Quandt and Gustav Hase - conducted . They advised on the establishment of an illegal party organization in Mecklenburg and on the tasks of the party members in the fight against the Nazi regime. Mathias Thesen brought the results of this consultation to the meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD on February 7, 1933 in the sports store Ziegenhals near Königs Wusterhausen (near Berlin). On March 12, 1933, the last meeting of functionaries of the district leadership of the KPD took place in Warnemünde, attended by Schulze, Hans Warnke, Bernhard Quandt, Willi Schröder and Mathias Thesen - this time as representatives of the Central Committee. In mid-March 1933 Schulze was arrested in his illegal quarters in Warnemünde and taken to the Dreibergen-Bützow prison . There he was subjected to brutal interrogations. He was so badly mistreated that his unhealed pulmonary tuberculosis broke out again. Seriously ill, he came to the Medical Clinic of Rostock University in August 1934 . He died there two days after his 30th birthday.

literature

• Martin Polzin, Horst Witt: Rostock from the bourgeois-democratic revolution 1848/49 to 1945 ( contributions to the history of the city of Rostock , volume 2). Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1974, p. 221.
• Horst Bendig, Wolfgang Höch (Ed.) The anti-fascist resistance struggle under the leadership of the KPD in Mecklenburg 1933–1945 . Dietz, Berlin 1985, pp. 14, 42, 57, 58, 68 and 73f.
• Karl-Heinz Jahnke : You mustn't be forgotten! Resistance to the Nazi dictatorship in Mecklenburg 1933–1945 . BS-Verlag-Rostock in cooperation with Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-89954-143-X , p. 180.
• Schulze, 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. 846.