Anton Hagen

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Anton Hagen (born June 16, 1868 in Spaichingen , † February 27, 1952 in Leipzig ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

Hagen was the son of a wood turner and grew up with 11 siblings in poor circumstances. After attending primary school, he learned the profession of plasterer in Switzerland and began to get involved in his trade union. In 1885 he became active in the General German Workers' Association in Zurich . A year later he joined the plasterers and plasterers association in Zurich and was again a delegate in the union cartel the following year. In 1888/89 he did his military service in Württemberg . This was followed by positions in Frankfurt am Main, Hanover, Munich and Dresden, until Hagen finally settled in Leipzig and married Elvira Roßberg in 1895.

From 1901 to 1903 he was a member of the central association committee and from 1908 to 1911 paid Gauleiter of the central association of stucco workers, at whose founding meeting he had participated in Stuttgart in 1892. In the years 1906 to 1907 Hagen officiated briefly as chairman of the SPD constituency organization Saxony 13. From 1912 to 1919 he worked as an employee of the construction workers' association in Leipzig.

After a large part of the SPD members in Leipzig had switched to the USPD due to the truce policy of the social democratic party leadership , Hagen was given the task of consolidating the party structures in Leipzig. From 1917 to 1925 he was district secretary of the SPD in Leipzig. From 1919 he was also a city councilor in Leipzig.

Between 1922 and 1929 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament . In the " Saxon conflict " from 1924 to 1926, Hagen supported the government of Max Heldt and, after his exclusion from the SPD, joined the Old Social Democratic Party in June 1926 , where he became a member of the ASP district executive in Leipzig. In 1932 he returned to the SPD with other ASP members.

Despite its almost total blindness Hagen was after the seizure arrested by the Nazis on 24 June 1933 to mid-August of the year in Sachsenburg concentration camp held. After he was released, he was under police custody for two years and his passport was confiscated. In the following time he kept in contact with a circle around the former SPD state parliament members Otto Nebrig and Erwin Hartsch .

After the end of the Second World War, Hagen no longer appeared in public due to his state of health. His position on the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED remains unresolved. A positive opinion can be assumed, since he was recognized as a victim of the Nazi regime in 1950 (at the height of the party purges against former Social Democrats in the SED ) .

literature

  • Michael Rudloff: Anton Hagen (1868–1952). The right-wing socialist in the Unity Party . In: Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): “Such pests also exist in Leipzig”. Social Democrats and the SED. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , pp. 91-101.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Schmeitzner / Michael Rudloff: History of Social Democracy in the Saxon State Parliament. Representation and documentation 1877–1997 , SPD parliamentary group in the Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 1997, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Michael Rudloff: Anton Hagen (1868–1952). The right-wing socialist in the Unity Party . In: Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): “Such pests also exist in Leipzig”. Social Democrats and the SED. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, ASPD)
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Spaichingen
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1952
Place of death Leipzig