Carl Heller (politician)

Carl Heller (born September 9, 1872 in Teplitz-Schönau , † April 7, 1944 in Stockholm ) was a German politician ( DSAP ) in Czechoslovakia.

Heller attended grammar schools in Leitmeritz and Prague and studied law at the University of Prague and the University of Berlin . In 1897 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1903 he was a lawyer in Teplitz-Schönau.

As a student he became a member of the Social Democratic Labor Party . With the separation of the Sudetenland and the founding of the DSAP in 1919, he was a member and was a legal advisor and a member of the board from 1919 to 1938. In the first to third electoral term (1920 to 1935) he was a member of the Senate and there club chairman of the Social Democrats. From 1929 to 1939 he was Vice President of the Senate. As a supporter of Czech , he resigned from all party offices after Jaksch was elected in 1938 as party chairman.

After the Munich Agreement was signed , he first fled to Prague, where he was a member of the DSAP emigration office. His efforts to obtain a visa to Denmark were only successful on the day of the German occupation of Prague on March 15, 1939. He left Prague on the last possible transport and reached Copenhagen on March 18, 1939. His wife and sister had to stay behind in Prague, but were also able to travel to Copenhagen on November 4, 1939. After the German invasion of Denmark, the Swedish Social Democrats made it possible for him and his wife to leave for Sweden on October 30, 1940. There he lived from supporting Swedish refugee aid until his death.

literature

• Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-1-8 , pp. 382 .