Arthur Zabel

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Arthur Zabel (born September 14, 1891 in Wittenberge , † January 6, 1954 in Heikendorf , near Kiel ) was a German trade union official and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Zabel was born the son of a factory worker and learned to be a machinist after attending the community school. He then went on a one-year hike , then moved to Kiel and worked as a torpedo workshop fitter at the Deutsche Werke shipyard. He joined the SPD in 1909. After the November Revolution , Zabel was a delegate for Schleswig-Holstein at the two large Reichsrat congresses in Berlin in December 1918 and April 1919.

Zabel was actively involved in the trade union movement. In 1918 he became secretary of the German Railway Workers' Association (DEV), later the unified association of railway workers in Germany (EdED), in Neumünster . From April 1919 to 1922 Zabel was district manager of DEV in Neumünster, from 1922 he worked in the same position in Stettin. From March 1920 to 1921 he was also the district administrator of the Bordesholm district . The rumors and accusations spread by right-wing conservative circles in Bordesholm and the surrounding area are said to have worn him down soon, which is why Zabel moved to Stettin , where he took part in the development of the district association of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) for Pomerania - Mecklenburg-Strelitz , which he from Headed from mid-1932 to spring 1933. His successor in the office of District Administrator, the later National Socialist Waldemar von Mohl , qualified him in a private letter as an "unfortunate soci" because of his failure in Bordesholm.

At times Zabel was a city ​​councilor in Stettin and a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Pomeranian Province . He also worked as an editor for the Eisenbahner-Echo , as a district youth leader for the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and as an orphanage in Stettin. In 1932 and 1933 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament.

After the National Socialists came to power, Zabel was imprisoned by the National Socialists in connection with the smashing of the trade unions in May 1933 and was imprisoned in the Esterwegen concentration camp until just before Christmas of the same year . After his release from prison, Zabel became involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime. He maintained connections to the “illegal Reichsleitung” of the trade unions and in particular to Wilhelm Leuschner , who wanted to reinstate him as a leading trade unionist in Stettin in connection with the overthrow plans around July 20, 1944 after the end of the Nazi regime.

As a former board member of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und Arbeitslosenversicherung, Zabel was appointed head of the labor office in Flensburg in September 1945. In January 1946 he became head of the Kiel employment office. In June 1946 he was entrusted with the administration of the President of the State Labor Office of Schleswig-Holstein and shortly afterwards was appointed to the senior government council. In 1947 he took over the management of the state housing office, which he held until his death. A promotion to government director connected with the office and planned was not realized.

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 401.
  • Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution - resistance - emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 378, 718 (short biography).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted by Sebastian Lehmann and Uwe Danker in their report on Mohl. beirat-fuer-geschichte.de (PDF)
  2. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Archives Section 761 No. 1225.
personal data
SURNAME Zabel, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1954
Place of death Kiel