Arthur Samisch

Arthur Sämisch (born February 21, 1878 in Markranstädt ; † June 6, 1940 in Merseburg ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / KPD ). He was a member of the Prussian State Assembly (1919–1921), a member of the Central Revision Commission and Reich auditor of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

Life

Samisch attended elementary school , learned the profession of furrier and then went hiking in Germany and abroad. In 1904 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1909 to July 1914 he was a health insurance employee in Schkeuditz , there from August 1914 to 1917 also SPD party secretary. From 1914 to 1919 he was a city councilor in Schkeuditz, and later a salaried secretary of the German Metalworkers Association (DMV) of the Merseburg district . In 1917/18 he had to serve as a soldier in the First World War . In 1917 he moved to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), whose secretary he was in Halle (Saale) .

In January 1919 Samisch was elected to the Prussian National Assembly for the USPD. He was a delegate at the splitting party convention of the USPD in October 1920 in Halle (Saale) and in December 1920 switched with the left USPD to the KPD. He retained his mandate in the national assembly. From 1921 to 1926 he was party secretary of the KPD in Merseburg, from 1922 to 1926 he was a member of the KPD district leadership in Halle-Merseburg and was its treasurer . The 8th party congress of the KPD in Leipzig (January 28 to February 1, 1923) appointed him to the Central Revision Commission. In February 1924 Samisch was elected to the city council of Merseburg. In 1927 he was appointed Reich auditor of the KPD and was also an employee of the KPD Central Committee in Berlin . In 1929 he returned to Halle and was there until 1931 secretary of the KPD district leadership for the trade union.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Samisch continued to work illegally. In June 1933 he was arrested and put into so-called “ protective custody ”. In Lichtenburg concentration camp of tuberculosis ill and blind, he was released.

literature

• Commission for research into the history of the local workers 'movement (ed.): Arthur Sämisch (= From the history of the Halle workers' movement , Volume 3). District leadership of the SED, Merseburg 1971.
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles and election documentation. A manual . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 693.
• Chamois, Arthur . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Biography of Arthur Sämisch . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)