Franz Doll

This article deals with Franz Doll, a member of the Reichstag. For the painter and draftsman, see Franz Doll (artist) .

Franz Doll (born November 6, 1906 in Durlach (Baden); † unknown, officially declared dead on December 31, 1945) was a Reichstag member of the KPD in the Weimar Republic .

Life

The trained lathe operator joined the young workers in 1921. In 1927 he also became a member of the KPD. From the end of the 1920s he worked as an editor for the communist party newspapers Ruhr-Echo and Westphalian fighters . He was also the political leader of the Baden-Palatinate district of the KPD.

In the Reichstag election of July 1932, he was elected to the Reichstag in the Baden constituency, to which he belonged until 1933.

At the end of 1932, Doll followed Robert Klausmann as Polleiter in the KPD district of Baden-Palatinate. In February 1933, he and Herbert Müller became head of the illegal KPD in the Baden-Palatinate district. Then he went near Berlin, from July 1933 on to act as senior advisor for West in the Ruhr area and then to work in Munich.

It is unclear whether Doll was arrested as a Polleiter of the illegal KPD of Bavaria in early 1935 or whether he emigrated to the Saar region in 1935, as a letter from the Central Committee of the KPD claimed in December 1945. Doll was registered as "fugitive" in a personnel sheet from the Reich Security Main Office from late 1936 / early 1937. In 1941 his name was still on the Gestapo's special wanted list.

Doll's further fate is not clear: his wife Margarethe, who received one last sign of life from her husband in January 1934, finally had him officially declared dead by order of the Heidelberg District Court on October 15, 1947. The official date of death was December 31, 1945. The most likely variant is that Franz Doll emigrated to the Soviet Union around 1935 and fell victim to the Stalinist purges there .

literature

• Klaus J. Becker: The KPD in Rhineland-Palatinate 1946–1956 , Mainz, 2001. ISBN 3-7758-1393-4 , p. 430
• Doll, Franz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Franz Doll in the database of members of the Reichstag