Artur Schöneburg

Artur Schöneburg (born February 11, 1905 in Gera ; † April 14, 1959 ) was a German member of the state parliament ( SPD ), resistance fighter against National Socialism , SED city ​​chairman of Gera and head of a VEB in Saalfeld .

Life

Schöneburg attended elementary school and did an apprenticeship as a locksmith .

He joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in 1921 and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1923 . In 1925 he took part in a course at the Heimvolkshochschule Tinz . In 1926 he was one of the participants in a delegation trip to the USSR . He was one of the Thuringian Social Democrats who advocated merging with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) at an early stage . In 1932 he became a member of the state parliament in Thuringia with a mandate from the SPD.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 he lost, like all Social Democrats, his seat in Parliament on 23 June 1933. After that, he actively participated in the illegal resistance to some Nazi regime and was involved in the group " New Beginning ". He was arrested in 1934, but had to be released a few months later. In 1940 he was called up to the Penal Battalion 999 and was taken prisoner by the British in Egypt at the end of the war .

When the Nazi dictatorship was eliminated, he returned to Thuringia in March 1946 , became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (the SPD no longer existed after the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED ) and worked on its Thuringian state executive . At the same time he officiated as SED chairman in Gera. In 1948 he was a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone .

In the summer of 1949 he was relieved of his party functions because of alleged “political arrogance” and lack of assertiveness against supporters of Kurt Schumacher . He then attended a party school and until 1959 ran a state-owned machine tool manufacturing company in Saalfeld.

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 565, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7

Web links

• Artur Schöneburg's 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)