Ernst Winter (politician, 1893)

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Ernst Winter (born November 21, 1893 in Eilenstedt , † April 5, 1958 in East Berlin ) was a German teacher and politician . From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the state parliament of Braunschweig .

Life

Winter, the son of a locksmith, was born in Eilenstedt in the Prussian district of Oschersleben . In 1899 the family moved to Braunschweig . After attending the teachers' college, he was drafted into the military in 1915 and then served in the First World War until 1918 .

After the war he worked as a primary school teacher. In 1920 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Braunschweig and held various functions. From 1924 to 1933 he was part of the leadership of the KPD sub-district of Braunschweig, and at times also belonged to the KPD district leadership of Lower Saxony. In December 1924 he entered the state parliament of Braunschweig as a member and remained in this parliament until 1933. Winter was one of the “Compromisers” in 1928, but separated from them at the end of 1928 and exercised self-criticism. At the end of 1932 he was expelled from the KPD for “opportunistic behavior”. On February 16, 1933, he resigned his state parliament mandate and was no longer politically active. He moved to Berlin and worked there as an employee. After July 20, 1944, he was arrested.

After the Second World War he rejoined the KPD in 1945 and the SED in 1946. From 1946 he was district councilor for popular education and in 1949 managing mayor of the Berlin-Pankow district. He then was the main consultant for teacher training at the Pedagogical Institute in East Berlin. After Winter's exclusion from the party in 1932 was discovered during the party review in 1951, which he had concealed, Winter was expelled from the SED by the special commission of the Berlin State Party Control Commission. His objection was rejected by the Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK) on February 13, 1952. He last worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Vocational School Teacher Training in East Berlin and was re-admitted to the SED at the end of 1956.

Winter last lived in Berlin-Niederschönhausen and died after a long and serious illness at the age of 64.

literature

  • Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic . Volume 2, European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1969, DNB 458584355, p. 343.
  • Winter, Ernst . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Work program of the Pankow district . In: Neues Deutschland , February 15, 1949, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Acknowledgments from his wife Elsbeth Winter in Neues Deutschland, April 18, 1958, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teachers and politicians (KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Eilenstedt
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1958
Place of death East Berlin