August Schmidt (politician)
August Friedrich Schmidt (born July 13, 1884 in Königsaue , † August 3, 1939 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( KPD ) who was a victim of the Nazi regime .
Life
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Schmidt worked as a farm worker after finishing primary school. From 1906 he lived in Hamburg and worked at a shipyard in the Port of Hamburg and then at the Staatskai. Schmidt joined the SPD in 1907 and was a union member of the port workers' association. Towards the end of the First World War , he joined the USPD and worked for the party as a district leader. At the end of 1920 he switched from the Hamburg USPD to the KPD and in 1924 also became a member of the Rote Hilfe . For the KPD he moved into the Hamburg parliament in 1927 , to which he belonged until 1931. In this function he was a member of the Port Expansion Committee and the Complaints Committee for the Housing Office . In Hamburg he was a co-founder of the revolutionary trade union opposition . In the course of the strikes of the Union of Seafarers, Dock Workers and Inland Skippers in Germany in 1928/29, Schmidt played a leading role in the work stoppages.
After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he continued to work for the now illegal KPD as head of the Winterhude district group . On September 17, 1935, Schmidt was arrested and taken into custody and received a two-year prison sentence in 1936. After his release from prison in 1937, Schmidt died on August 3, 1939 from the consequences of imprisonment.
In Hamburg, on June 8, 2012, stumbling blocks were laid in front of the town hall for the murdered members of the Hamburg citizenship, including August Schmidt.
literature
- Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933–1945 , second edition, Frankfurt a. M. 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7 , p. 253.
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 3, 2013]).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Christine Meier: August Schmidt * 1884 at http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, August Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsaue |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1939 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |