Franz Klupsch

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Franz Klupsch (born September 22, 1874 in Deutsch-Jeseritz , † December 28, 1957 in Dortmund ) was a German social democratic politician. He is considered to be the organizer of the SPD in the Western Westphalia district . After the Second World War he supported the unification of the KPD and SPD.

Life

Klupsch was a trained carpenter . In 1896 he joined the SPD, probably at the same time as a member of the free trade unions . In Dortmund he became chairman of the union cartel in 1902 and chairman of the branch of the carpenters' association for the city in 1903. Kupsch was one of the leading figures in the great miners' strike in the Ruhr area in 1905. In the same year he became party secretary for the Dortmund-Hörde constituency. In 1907 and 1908 Klupsch graduated from the central party school in Berlin . He also worked for the Dortmund workers' newspaper, Klupsch was also chairman of the constituency board and was a member of the party's district board. In the period up to 1914 Klupsch played a key role in building up the party organization in western Westphalia. Klupsch was partly responsible for the balancing, pragmatic style that dominated the region in the following decades. In the internal party area he supported the party center.

During and after the November Revolution , Klupsch was a leading member of the Board of Directors of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council for the Dortmund-Hörde electoral district. He helped push back the more left-wing positions and end the strike movements of the immediate post-war period. Klupsch also represented his legalistic position as a delegate at the first Reichsrätekongress in Berlin. In place of Max König , who had become district president in Arnsberg, he took over the position of full-time district secretary and chairman of the SPD in western Westphalia. Klupsch was also a member of the central party executive. He was also editor of the social democratic Westphalian general people newspaper.

In Dortmund he was a member of the city council from 1915 to 1933. In this body he was at times chairman of the parliamentary group. After the November Revolution he was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly and from 1919 to 1933 Klupsch was a member of the Prussian state parliament . From 1924 to 1933 he was also chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in the Gau Westliches Westfalen.

In the course of the 1920s, his pragmatic course met with increasing criticism from younger party members, especially in the wake of the armored cruiser affair.

Klupsch lost all his offices and functions during the Nazi era . He built up a resistance group that kept in touch with Wilhelm Leuschner and Julius Leber and which also included the left and pacifists attacked by Klupsch before 1933.

After the end of the Second World War, he was initially one of the re-founders of the SPD, including in Meschede . After that, however, he spoke out in favor of the unification of the SPD and KPD . After the official separation of the SED and the KPD in the western zones in 1949, Klupsch became a representative of the KPD in the central SED party executive.

literature

  • Bernd Faulenbach u. a. (Ed.): Social Democracy in Transition. The district of Western Westphalia 1893-2001 , Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89861-062-4 , p. 92f.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 106f.

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personal data
SURNAME Klupsch, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD / KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH German Jeseritz
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1957
Place of death Dortmund