Emil Zimmermann (politician, 1885)

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Emil Zimmermann (born February 27, 1885 in Deuben , † January 22, 1966 in Radebeul ) was a German politician (SPD, USPD, SED) and member of the state parliament in the Oldenburg state parliament .

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Early years

Zimmermann was the son of the miner Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmermann. He attended elementary school and became a member of the union during his apprenticeship as a lathe operator. In the following year, in which he completed his apprenticeship and also turned 18, he joined the SPD .

During his traveling years , Zimmermann came to Hamburg , where he worked at the Blohm + Voss shipyard . Here, too, he was active in trade union functions and from 1910 was a shop steward for the metal workers' association at the shipyard. From 1910 to 1914 he was also a member of the board of the SPD local association Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . For the 1912 Reichstag election , he was involved in the agitation committee. During a six-week dock workers' strike in 1913, he was elected to the strike leadership.

In the First World War and in the Weimar Republic

During the First World War , Zimmermann served in the Imperial Navy as a stoker on the large cruisers SMS Seydlitz and SMS Lützow . Later he was sent to the torpedo yard in Wilhelmshaven . Once again he was active in the SPD and also in the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). When the November Revolution reached Wilhelmshaven, Zimmermann took the lead in the revolutionary workers' movement. At the mass meeting on the late afternoon of November 6, 1918, at which the elections to the State Workers' Council for Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and East Friesland took place, Zimmermann was elected its first chairman. Furthermore, he was active in the steering body “21er” Council, which is dominated by soldiers, as 2nd chairman under Bernhard Kuhnt . When on November 10, 1918 the "21er" Council declared the North Sea station and all surrounding islands and marine parts as well as the entire Oldenburg region to be the socialist republic of Oldenburg / East Friesland and the deposition of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg and the deposition of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg , Zimmermann was one of them the main speaker. In December 1918 he went as a delegate of the faction of the United Revolutionary Workers and Soldiers to the Reich Council Congress in Berlin .

Under the impression of the discussion in the “21er” Council, Zimmermann turned more and more to the left and founded the more radical USPD in the Rüstringen / Wilhelmshaven area together with Bernhard Kuhnt at the beginning of January 1919 . However, the party failed with its list in the election for the constituent national assembly on January 19, 1919. In the elections to the Oldenburg state parliament, Zimmermann was successful and sat from June 1920 to 1922 as a member of the USPD parliamentary group of this body. From 1919 to 1923 he was also a councilor and magistrate in Rüstringen .

From March 1920 to 1933 Zimmermann worked as managing director of the metal workers' association in Rüstringen and Wilhelmshaven. On March 1, 1920 he also became the association's full-time cashier and in 1924 succeeded Hermann Bäuerle in the position of 1st authorized representative in the local administration.

In September 1922 Zimmermann took part in the special party conference of the USPD in Gera and in the same month joined a large number of other USPD delegates to the SPD in order to also take part in its unification party conference in Nuremberg in September 1922 . For the SPD, Zimmermann, as a member of parliament with great political experience and a remarkable talent for speech, continued to sit in the Oldenburg state parliament from 1922 to 1933. Between 1928 and 1931 Zimmermann was then also President of the 4th Landtag of the Free State of Oldenburg .

In the time of National Socialism

On May 2, 1933, Zimmermann was forcibly removed from his offices by the National Socialists , who had been in charge of government in the Free State of Oldenburg since May 1931, and a few days later he was taken into political protective custody.

At the instigation of the Gauleiter and Oldenburg NS Prime Minister Carl Röver , he was released again on condition that he leave Oldenburg immediately. Zimmermann then went back to the history of Saxony # Free State of Saxony (1918 to 1933) Saxony and ran a manufacturing business in Dresden , which was considered one of the meeting places for illegal party and trade union work during the time of the Nazi regime. During the [[air raids on Dresden # air raids bombing raid on Dresden]] on February 13, 1945, Zimmermann's apartment and business premises were also destroyed. After the collapse of Nazi rule, which Zimmermann felt as liberation, he worked again for the SPD, and after the forced unification in April 1946 for the SED as well . However, he was expelled from the party because of social democratic deviations. Z. spent his old age in his weekend house in Bilzbad .

Zimmermann died in Radebeul in January 1966 .

family

Zimmermann married Emma Luise Schimmler (1891–1973) from Mecklenburg on November 2, 1911 . The daughter Gertrud emerged from the marriage.

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SURNAME Zimmermann, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Emil Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD, SED), member of the state parliament in Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Deuben
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1966
Place of death Radebeul