Bruno Granz

Bruno Richard Granz (born December 6, 1880 in Callenberg (Saxony); † November 3, 1937 in Butowo ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD , KPD ) and from 1920 to 1926 a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

The son of a small farmer and carpenter completed an apprenticeship as a baker and then worked as a master baker in Callenberg and Limbach . From 1906 to 1910 he was a laborer in Chemnitz. There he became a member of the SPD in 1906. From 1910 Granz was on the board of the consumer association in Limbach. In 1912 he became chairman of the SPD local group Limbach. Under his significant influence, the district conference decided in 1917 to convert to the USPD and elected Granz as district chairman. In 1916/17 he did military service.

In November 1918 Granz was elected chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Limbach. At the end of the year he took part as a delegate at the founding party congress of the KPD. From 1919 to 1933 he was chairman of the KPD parliamentary group in the city council in Limbach. From 1920 to 1926 Granz was a member of the Saxon state parliament for the KPD. In addition, he was managing director of the Limbach consumer association from 1924 to 1933. From 1919 to 1930 he was a member of the KPD district leadership of the Erzgebirge-Vogtland. Due to his friendship with the former KPD chairman Heinrich Brandler , his influence in the KPD decreased in the late 1920s.

In March 1933 Granz emigrated to Czechoslovakia and in 1934 to the Soviet Union . There he worked under the name Otto Stoll in a Moscow bakery. In 1937 Bruno Granz and his son Kurt were arrested by the NKVD and shot in the same year.

literature

Granz, Bruno Richard . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Bruno Granz . In: Horst Stoschek, Horst, Erich Zeidler: On the fight of the KPD in the Saxon state parliament against militarism and fascism in the Weimar Republic. Part II: Biographies of the members of the Communist Party of Germany in the Saxon state parliament 1920–1933. Dissertation A. University of Education “Karl Liebknecht”, Potsdam 1976, pp. 37–42.

Individual evidence

↑ Granz, Bruno Richard. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on February 17, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Granz, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Granz, Bruno Richard (full name); Stoll, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon MP
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Callenberg
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1937
Place of death	Butowo-Poligon

[1] Granz, Bruno Richard. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on February 17, 2019 .