Arthur Brill

Arthur Brill (born January 22, 1883 in Graudenz , West Prussia , † September 19, 1956 in Buch) was a German politician (SPD) and in Danzig the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig (1921-1936) and a member of the People's Day .

Life

Arthur Brill worked as a construction worker until 1908. From 1906 to 1908 he was chairman of the trade union cartel in Graudenz. In February 1908 he became full-time managing director and chairman of the branch of the construction workers' association or the construction trade union in Gdansk.

Arthur Brill was chairman of the SPD in Danzig from 1914 at the latest. With the formation of the Free City of Danzig in 1920 he became chairman of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig . From 1919 to 1936 he was a local councilor in Ohra and a member of the district council and the district committee of the Danziger Höhe district .

In 1919 he was elected to the Prussian state constitutional assembly. With the separation of Danzig from the Reich, he left the state parliament. In 1920 he was a member of the Danzig State Council . He was elected to the Constituent Assembly in Gdansk in 1920 and was a member of the People's Day from then until 1937. From 1935 to 1937 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in Danzig's People's Day.

After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, the new rulers targeted him. He lost his job with the union and in 1933 was sentenced to 1 year in prison for " infidelity ". On August 26, 1935, he was bloodily beaten by a National Socialist in the Volkstag.

In order to find an excuse for banning the SPD, the National Socialists constructed the legend that leading Social Democrats had illegally owned weapons. From December 1936 to March 1937, Brill was held in custody under this charge for "prohibited possession of weapons". He was released from custody against the "voluntary" resignation.

Web links

Arthur Brill biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Schumacher: M. d. L., the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , Droste, 1995, p. 19. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
↑ Erich Brost , Anke Fuchs, Marek Andrzejewski, Patrik von zur Mühlen : Against the brown terror: Letters and essays from exile , Dietz, 2004, p. 44. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
↑ Ernst Sodeikat : National Socialism and the Danzig Opposition ; In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , volume 12 (1966), issue 2, p. 164, online

personal data
SURNAME	Brill, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD); SPD chairwoman in Gdansk (1921–1936) and MP
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graudenz , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	September 19, 1956
Place of death	book

[1] Martin Schumacher: M. d. L., the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , Droste, 1995, p. 19. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[2] Erich Brost , Anke Fuchs, Marek Andrzejewski, Patrik von zur Mühlen : Against the brown terror: Letters and essays from exile , Dietz, 2004, p. 44. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[3] Ernst Sodeikat : National Socialism and the Danzig Opposition ; In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , volume 12 (1966), issue 2, p. 164, online