Eugen Ernst

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Eugen Ernst in 1952, two years before his death
Eugen Ernst speaks at the party conference for the unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946

Eugen Ernst (born September 20, 1864 in Murowana-Goslin , Province of Posen , † May 31, 1954 in Werder (Havel) ) was a German politician of the SPD and later the SED .

Live and act

Ernst, son of a master carpenter, learned the profession of printer . Until 1892 he was also active in this profession. In 1884 Ernst joined the free trade unions and in 1886 the SPD. Within the 6th Berlin constituency he held various functions, including chairman in 1896. Between 1891 and 1893 he was a shop steward and chairman of the inner-party opposition group of the " boys ". From 1892 he worked professionally for Vorwärts, initially as a printing factor. In 1902 and 1903 Ernst was managing director and company sponsor and from 1903 to 1918 property manager of the Vorwärts book printing company. Initially only in the years 1900 and 1901 he was a member of the central party executive committee. Thereafter at least between 1905 and 1913 member of the control commission. Between 1915 and 1917 he was chairman of the Association of Social Democratic Electoral Associations of Greater Berlin. From 1907 to 1918 Ernst was chairman of the social democratic state commission for Prussia and from 1917 to 1919 he was again a member of the party executive.

During the November Revolution , Ernst was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council of Greater Berlin and from 1919 to 1920 a member of the Weimar National Assembly . In the Prussian Council of People's Representatives he was a minister until March 1919. From January 1919 to March 1920, Ernst was Emil Eichhorn's successor as police chief in Berlin , then from May 1920 to 1926 as police chief and temporarily Reich Commissioner in Breslau . After that, Ernst no longer appeared as a city ​​councilor in Werder (Havel) from 1926 to 1933 .

After the end of National Socialist rule in 1945, he became a member of the SPD again, and in 1946 Ernst helped to force it to merge with the KPD to form the SED. In 1948 the state executive of the SED Greater Berlin published under the title A Life for the Labor Movement. His autobiography is an incentive for our youth . Karl Litke wrote the foreword .

literature

  • Georg Kotowski:  Ernst, Eugen Oswald Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 628 ( digitized version ).
  • Frauke Mingerzahn: Eugen Ernst. Life picture of a social democrat in the field of tension between reaction and social progress . Potsdam: University of Education, Faculty of History and Philology, Diss. A, 1989.
  • 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

Commons : Eugen Ernst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The organizations of the social democracy in "Greater Berlin" opened up about the area of ​​the later unified community of Berlin , see Matthias John: Organological handbook to the social democratic functionaries in late Wilhelmine Berlin . trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2012. PDF .
  2. ↑ Some sources refer to him as a minister without an overview of state ministries , others like Schröder as minister of the interior, but the first variant is probably more likely, since Paul Hirsch (SPD) and Rudolf Breitscheid (USPD) were interior ministers.
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Murowana-Goslin
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1954
Place of death Werder (Havel)