Anton Jadasch

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Anton Jadasch (born May 25, 1888 in Krappitz , † May 17, 1964 in Berlin ) was a communist politician and trade unionist.

Life

The trained carpenter and member of a free religious community joined the Hirsch-Duncker union when he was 14 . In 1904 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . and after completing his apprenticeship worked from 1906 to 1915 as a steelworker in Lipine . Imprisoned after organizing a strike in 1915 and called up for military service, Jadash was wounded in 1917 and then worked as a miner. Member of the SPD since 1906 , Jadasch was one of the opponents of the SPD's civil peace policy during the First World War ; Elected to the workers' council of Bytom during the November Revolution , Jadasch was one of the founders of the Spartakusbund and a little later of the KPD in Upper Silesia . As secretary of the Upper Silesian KPD, Jadasch played a leading role in the unification with the Communist Party of Upper Silesia, which emerged from the left wing of the PPS , and with the USPD there to form the Communist Party of Upper Silesia , and also headed the unified organization, which soon after became the KPD as a district organization for Upper Silesia .

In 1921 Jadasch was elected to the central committee of the KPD and took over the management of the KPD-affiliated union of hand and brain workers , for which he moved to Oberhausen . From May 1924 to 1933 a member of the Reichstag and also a city councilor in Gleiwitz until 1928 , he took over the leadership of the Upper Silesia party district again, in 1925, together with Gustav Sobottka , transferred the union of manual and mental workers to the ADGB and in the following years was responsible for the work of the KPD responsible among the unemployed and agricultural workers and from 1928 published the Polish-language KPD newspaper Głos Pracy . From 1929 to lead the RGO belonging, he was in 1932 on charges of high treason to 15 months imprisonment sentenced was because of his immunity as an MP but not detained.

After the NSDAP came to power , Jadasch was arrested on February 25, 1933 in the Free State of Danzig and shortly afterwards handed over to the German authorities.He had to serve his sentence and was briefly imprisoned three times in concentration camps, later he worked as a miner and in a sawmill.

After liberation from National Socialism in 1945, Jadasch was again active in the KPD and until October 1945 mayor of Berlin-Wittenau . From 1946 to 1949 he was on behalf of the SED General Secretary of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid in Brandenburg and a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament . Later he no longer played an important role in the politics of the GDR . In 1954 and 1958 he ran for the SED in the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives , which, however, could not win a seat in either election.

He was with Anna Jadasch, geb. Ballon (born July 2, 1905 Ellguth-Zabrze / Gleiwitz; died November 20, 1972 Berlin-Blankenburg ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , December 5, 1958, p. 10.
  2. ↑ The founders of the DFD
  3. ^ Anton Jadasch: Speech in the deliberation of the Reich budget plan for 1928 in the 380th session of the III. Electoral term on February 13, 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Jadasch, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD, KPD), MdR, MdV and trade unionists
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Krappitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1964
Place of death Berlin