August Wild (politician)

August Wild (born December 12, 1881 in Idar-Oberstein ; † June 8, 1953 there ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / KPD / SAP ). He was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament .

Life

Wild, son of a goldsmith , learned his father's trade himself and worked as an engraver . From 1900 to 1903 he did his military service in a Guard Grenadier Regiment in Spandau . Presumably he joined the SPD as early as 1914. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. During this time he became a member of the USPD and was later a leading functionary of this party in his home town of Idar-Oberstein and in the Hunsrück . From October 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the local council in Oberstein and from 1920 on the Birkenfeld state committee . The Birkenfeld region belonged to the Free State of Oldenburg as an exclave on the left bank of the Rhine . In June 1920 Wild ran as a candidate for the USPD in the Reichstag elections .

In March 1922 he was a delegate to the district party convention of the KPD-Mittelrhein in Cologne and was elected to the district committee. From 1923 to 1925 he was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament for the KPD. A short time later, Wild became a member of the SPD again, for which he also entered the Birkenfeld state committee in the new elections in May 1925 (until May 1928). In 1931 he became a member of the SAP, but no longer emerged politically.

Wild died on June 8, 1953 in his birthplace.

literature

• Günter Bers: The Middle Rhine / Saar district of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1922 (= The workers' movement in the Rhineland , Volume 5). Einhorn-Presse Främcke, Wentorf near Hamburg 1975, p. 137.
• Wild, August . 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 , p. 1024.