Bruno Peters
Bruno Peters (born January 18, 1884 in Berlin , † February 13, 1960 in East Berlin ) was a German KPD functionary and resistance fighter . In 1918/19 he was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Frankfurt (Oder) .
Life
The son of a master shoemaker learned the trade of toolmaker . In 1908 he became a member of the SPD and from 1910 to 1916 was part of the management of the 3rd group of the social democratic constituency of Berlin-Charlottenburg . In January 1916 the Spartacus group took over the management functions there. Peters was particularly involved in the distribution of the "Spartacus letters". In 1917 he joined the USPD.
During the First World War he worked as a locksmith at the German weapons and ammunition factory , where he was one of the revolutionary stewards . During the April strike in 1917 he was arrested as a ringleader and interned in a military camp.
In January 1918 he was arrested together with Leo Jogiches and charged with "high treason and treason"; Released from prison in mid-October 1918, he was assigned to the replacement army in Frankfurt / Oder. On November 10, 1918, Peters was elected chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council there.
Together with Wilhelm Michalski (1872–1961) the Charlottenburg Spartacus Group delegated him to the founding party congress of the KPD; there he was elected a member of the revision commission and at later party congresses as treasurer of the KPD headquarters.
In the 1920s, Peters worked for the KPD district leadership Berlin-Brandenburg and worked as an acceptance engineer at the Soviet trade agency in Berlin. After a brief arrest in 1934, he worked as an acceptance engineer for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. He continued to participate in the resistance against the Nazi regime and had contacts with Werner Seelenbinder , among others . In 1944 he was arrested again and sentenced to three years in prison for “ degrading military strength ”.
From June 1945 Bruno Peters worked again in the Reichsbahnzentralamt and became a KPD functionary in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1953 he moved to Berlin-Pankow . Before his retirement he was head of the inspection office or the central technical office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
The historian and cartographer Arno Peters is his son.
Honors
He was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde.
The street Bruno-Peters-Berg in Frankfurt / Oder was named after him.
In 1956 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
literature
- Walter Bartel : The left in the German social democracy in the fight against militarism and war. 1-8 Tsd., Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1958; Full text archive
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Second, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the Empire to the Republic. City Archives Frankfurt (Oder), accessed on February 25, 2019 .
- ^ Franz Dahlem's correspondence with comrades, personalities and institutions from capitalist foreign countries. Archive portal of the German Digital Library , accessed on February 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery | Anniversaries of birth and death of those buried in the cemetery in 2009. Support group memorial site of the German labor movement Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1960 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |