Bernhard Düwell

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Bernhard Düwell (born April 29, 1891 in Bochum , † July 1, 1944 in Bandung , Indonesia ) was a German politician .

education and profession

After attending the secondary school in Essen , Dortmund and Berlin , Düwell left without a high school diploma. He then did a commercial apprenticeship in Berlin. Between 1911 and 1913 he studied economics at the Berlin School of Economics and worked as a freelance writer and journalist from 1910 to 1918 . During the First World War he worked as an accountant at the Reichshauptbank. In addition to his political activities, Düwell worked in 1919 as editor of the USPD newspaper Volksbote in Zeitz , a short time later as editor of the party's own news service and also for some time (1920) at the newspaper of the left wing party Die Internationale . From 1922, Düwell was editor of the monthly “ Bücher des Tages” and in 1931 he became editor-in-chief of the Saxon Volksblatt in Zwickau . He was also an employee of the Marxist tribune . In 1934 he fled Germany to the Netherlands, from there to Indonesia. After being occupied by Japanese troops, Düwall was sent to an internment camp in 1943, where he died in 1944.

Political career

Düwell was from 1908 to 1911 head of the social democratic youth organization in the city of Lichtenberg near Berlin , where his father Wilhelm Düwell (1866-1936), a lathe operator from the Ruhr area and since 1905 as editor of Vorwärts in Berlin, from 1907 to 1913 city ​​councilor of the SPD was. In the 1912 Reichstag election , in which the Social Democrats achieved strong profits, Wilhelm Düwell ran in the first constituency of Berlin, which included the Berlin Palace and the Ministers' Quarter, and was an outsider in the runoff election against the well-known progressive MP Johannes Kaempf , who is the electorate just 9 votes ahead of Düwell. As in 1907 and 1903 , the Berlin I constituency was the only Berlin constituency that did not belong to the SPD. Bernhard was active in the election campaign for his father.

Bernhard Düwell joined the USPD like his father in 1917 . During the November Revolution, Düwell was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Zeitz and commissioner for the administrative district of Merseburg in 1918/1919 . In December 1918 he took part in the 1st Reich Councilor Congress. He was elected for the USPD in 1919 in the Weimar National Assembly and 1920-1924 in the Reichstag . Within the USPD he belonged to the left wing, which merged with the KPD at the end of 1920 , to which Düwell's father, who meanwhile worked as an editor for the People's newspaper in Hamburg , had been a member since 1919. However, the KPD left Düwell after a few months as a result of his criticism of the March campaign . He then belonged initially to the communist working group around Paul Levi and in the spring of 1922 rejoined the USPD with this group. With the vast majority of USPD members, he returned to the SPD in autumn 1922.

Within the Weimar SPD, Düwell belonged to the left wing and, together with Max Seydewitz, was the editor of the Saxon Volksblatt in Zwickau. In the internal party disputes in 1931, which led to the exclusion or resignation of a part of the party left and the founding of the SAPD , Düwell referred in the booklet he wrote, Unity of Action and Party Discipline - a response to a debate by Anna Siemsen  - against a split and for maintaining the unity of the party's position.

In 1934 he fled Germany to the Netherlands , from there he emigrated to Batavia / Indonesia . In 1940 he was interned as a German by the Dutch authorities in the Sumatra prison camp and released after five months. After the occupation by Japanese troops, he was persecuted and arrested again. In 1943 he was transferred to the Japanese internment camp Tjimchi 6 / Bandung on Java, where he died in 1944.

Works

  • Rund and the Young Plan: reparations problem and proletariat. E. Laub, Berlin 1930
  • Unions and National Socialism. E. Laub, Berlin 1931
  • Unity of action and party discipline. E. Laub, Berlin 1931 ( text as PDF file , 21 pages; 2.2 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Düwell, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (USPD, KPD, SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1944
Place of death Bandung , Indonesia