Anton bias

Anton bias

Anton Bias (born September 23, 1876 in Groß Schimnitz , Opole district , † May 21, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After attending primary school in Groß Schimnitz and Dombrowka an der Oder , Bias, who originally belonged to the Roman Catholic Church but later left it, completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Opole . He then worked in his profession until 1914, interrupted only by military service from 1896 to 1898 with the 159th Prussian Regiment. During this time, from 1905, he was a shop steward in the German construction workers' association . During the First World War he served as a private in the Landsturm . On November 9, 1918, he led the uprisings of the November Revolution in Bytom and was until November 24, chairman of the local Soldiers' Council. He retired from the army on November 30th. At the beginning of the 1920s he became the administrator of the agricultural and construction company Beuthen .

After the takeover of the Nazis bias was released 1933rd On August 14th of that year he was arrested for the first time and taken to the city prison of Bytom. He was arrested again on August 22, 1944 as part of the Grid Action . He was finally taken to the Dachau concentration camp via the Beuthen prison, the Groß-Rosen concentration camp and the Flossenbürg concentration camp , where he died on May 21, 1945, just a few weeks after the liberation, of the consequences of his imprisonment.

Honors

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques in Berlin near the Reichstag has been commemorating Bias for members of the Reichstag who were murdered by the National Socialists .

Political party

Bias belonged to the SPD and had been party secretary in Beuthen since January 1914.

MP

From the Reichstag elections from 1919 to 1920, Bias was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . He was then a member of the Reichstag until the election of the new members in the constituency of Opole on November 19, 1922 .

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Anton Bias in the database of members of the Reichstag