Ernst Roth (politician, 1901)

Ernst Roth

Ernst Roth (born April 28, 1901 in Ernstweiler ; † May 14, 1951 in Strasbourg ) was a German politician ( SPS , later SPD ).

Life

Roth completed a journalistic training and worked as an editor from 1924 . He had been a member of the SPD since 1920. In 1932/33 he was a member of the Reichstag . He was also chairman of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold in Mannheim . In 1933 he emigrated to the Saar region and in 1934 to France. From 1935 to 1939 he was a member of the resistance group New Beginning , then a partisan and member of the “Free Germany” Committee for the West (CALPO).

From 1945 Roth was editor-in-chief of the Saarbrücker Zeitung , from 1946 also of the Social Democratic People's Voice in Saarbrücken and Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party of Saarland (SPS), in which he represented the pro-German wing. In 1946 he became an alderman for the city of Saarbrücken. After his resignation, forced by the pro-French party leadership, he left Saarland in 1948 and became district administrator in the Frankenthal district (Palatinate) . He was a member of the Bundestag from the first Bundestag election in 1949 until his death. He was directly elected to parliament with 39.4% of the valid votes cast in the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse constituency.

literature

• Ernst Roth . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 256-257.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Roth in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Ernst Roth in the Saarland biographies