Franz Scheffel

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Franz Scheffel

Franz Scheffel (born September 10, 1873 in Niederböhmersdorf , † March 15, 1967 in East Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD).

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After attending primary school , Scheffel completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith in Gera from 1887 to 1890 . In addition, he was taught at several vocational schools. He then earned his living as a machinist. In the 1880s he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He also became a member of the union, in which he soon took over numerous functions. From 1906 to 1918 he was chairman of the central association of machinists and stokers.

After the First World War , Scheffel became chairman of the German Railway Association, d. H. the railway workers' union, elected one of the most powerful posts in the German trade union movement. After the unification of the various railway workers' unions in 1925, Scheffel took over the chairmanship of the unified association of railway workers in Germany .

After Scheffel had already been a member of the city council in Lichtenberg since 1918, he entered the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in May 1928 on the Reich election proposal of the SPD . Since his mandate was confirmed in the following four Reichstag elections, he was a member of the German parliament for almost five years before he was expelled from the Reichstag in June 1933, together with the other SPD members in parliament, by order of the National Socialist government. One of the important parliamentary events in which Scheffel was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act in March 1933: Scheffel was one of 94 members who voted against the adoption of the law, which was the legal basis for the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship and that was approved by 444 votes to 94.

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In 1932, Scheffel turned against the general strike plans in the trade union movement. Scheffel resigned from his position as chairman of the railway workers' union under duress "voluntarily", "in order not to be in any way hindering the work of our association on a new basis." In the following years he was briefly taken into protective custody several times and placed under police supervision.

After 1945 Scheffel lived in Berlin. In 1946 he joined the SED and until 1961 was chairman of the working group of merited trade union veterans at the central board of the IG Eisenbahn and a member of the central working group of the FDGB federal board. He died in 1967. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Fonts

  • Is sabotage a union weapon? In: Sozialistische Monatshefte , 1912, 16 = 18 (1912), Heft 4, pp. 239–241. Digitized
  • The history of the German railway movement , slea (manuscript; kept in SAPMO Barch; DY-40-26 / 90/7164)
  • German trade union unit . Edited by August Reitz , Franz Scheffel. Co-founded by Josef Orlopp and Theodor Brylla . Verlag Tribüne , Berlin May 1, 1959–1962.
  • Welcome to Cologne on the Rhine. In: Der Deutsche Eisenbahner 9 (1925), issue 25, p. 116.

literature

  • Scheffel, Franz : In: Handbook of Public Life. State, politics, economy, transport, church, press, education, community, associations, foreign countries, statistics . Koehler, Leipzig 1930, p. 954.
  • Hermann Jochade: Scheffel, Franz : In: International Concise Dictionary of Trade Unions . Edited by Ludwig Heyde . Volume 2. Verlag Werk und Wirtschaft, Berlin 1932, p. 1392. Digitized
  • 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 .
  • Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Löwenthal / Patrik von Zur Mühlen: Resistance and Denial in Germany 1933 to 1945 , 1982, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Sigrid Amedick / Bernhard Schoßig: Under the winged wheel , 2001, p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Scheffel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederboehmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1967
Place of death Berlin