Engelbert Esser

Engelbert Esser (born August 11, 1889 in Cologne , † November 1947 in Koblenz ) was a German craftsman and politician (KPD).

Live and act

Esser attended elementary school in Cologne from 1891 to 1899 . He then completed an apprenticeship as an iron lathe until 1903 and attended the technical college in Cologne. After the First World War , Esser began to get involved in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). At the end of the 1920s he became a city councilor for Cologne. From 1930 to 1932 Esser was chairman of the works council at Lindgens and Sons in Cologne-Mülheim.

In 1930 Esser failed with his candidacy for the Reichstag in Berlin . On August 6, 1931, he was still able to take a seat in the parliament of the Weimar Republic as a member of the constituency 30 (Cologne-Aachen): After the original holder of the mandate for constituency 30, Anton Krzikalla , left the Reichstag, it was up to Krzikalla's party to the KPD to name a successor to continue his mandate. Engelbert Esser was selected for this, who subsequently belonged to the Reichstag for almost a year until July 1932.

During the Second World War, Esser was arrested in August 1941 and held in Mauthausen concentration camp until it was liberated . Until his death, he was chairman of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) in Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

literature

Esser, Engelbert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

↑ Life data and training course based on the biography of Engelbert Esser . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar) .

personal data
SURNAME	Esser, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	November 1947
Place of death	Koblenz

[1] Life data and training course based on the biography of Engelbert Esser . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar) .