Carl Eckardt

Carl Eckardt (born April 2, 1882 in Salzungen , † January 29, 1958 in Bad Liebenstein ) was a German politician ( USPD ; VKPD ).

Life

After attending the town school in Salzungen, Eckardt was trained as a fitter and plumber. Until July 1912 he worked as a foreman in Berlin-Neukölln and then in Braunschweig, initially in the same position and later as operations manager.

During the First World War , Eckardt joined the USPD. After the November Revolution of 1918, he was accepted as a representative of his party in the Braunschweig state government on November 10, 1919 . From November 1918 to April 1919 he was People's Commissar for Labor and then took over the department for revolutionary defense in the Council of People's Representatives. As a USPD member, he also took part in the two party conventions of the USPD in Berlin (March 1919) and Leipzig (November 1919). He also advocated the party's entry into the 3rd International .

From 1919 to 1920 Eckardt was chairman of the USPD district board of Braunschweig, but then switched from the dissolving USPD to the VKPD. From June 1920 to May 1924 he was a member of the Reichstag as a member of constituency 18 (South Hanover-Braunschweig) . After that he was no longer politically active. In the course of the Gestapo thunderstorm arrest in August 1944, he was imprisoned for some time.

Eckardt lived after 1945 in the Soviet occupation zone or the GDR , most recently in Bad Liebenstein, where he also died.

Web links

Carl Eckardt in the database of members of the Reichstag
Karl Eckardt's biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d biography of Karl Eckardt . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
^ Robert F. Wheeler: USPD and Internationale. Ullstein, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-548-03380-6 , p. 146.
^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( as Eckhardt, Karl bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de).

personal data
SURNAME	Eckardt, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (USPD; VKPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salzungen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1958
Place of death	Bad Liebenstein

[Biosop-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d biography of Karl Eckardt . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

[2] Robert F. Wheeler: USPD and Internationale. Ullstein, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-548-03380-6 , p. 146.

[3] Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( as Eckhardt, Karl bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de).