Fritz Schimanski
Friedrich "Fritz" Schimanski (born July 1, 1889 in Tilsit , † November 22, 1938 in the Soviet Union ) was a communist politician.
Life
The trained chaser Schimanski joined the SPD in 1911 and joined the USPD with other opponents of the truce policy in 1917 . In 1918, Schimanski was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Gdansk during the November Revolution . With the left wing of the USPD, he merged with the KPD to form the VKPD at the end of 1920 . In the Berlin (V) KPD he took on various local political offices and from 1920 on was a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg district leadership, where he was one of the supporters of the party left around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow . Elected to the KPD Central Committee in 1925, he voted there in 1926 against the expulsion of Fischer and Maslow and later Hugo Urbahns and was expelled from the KPD in early 1927. In 1928 he was initially responsible for its newspapers and publishing house in the newly founded Leninbund , but he soon parted with Fischer and Maslow and, after a declaration of repentance, was accepted back into the KPD in 1929. Until 1933 he worked as a full-time functionary for the RGO and as chairman of the works council of the Berlin slaughterhouse .
After the NSDAP “came to power ” in 1933, Schimanski and his family fled first to Prague, then in 1934 to Moscow. There he got caught up in the Stalinist wave of purges in 1936 , was arrested by the NKVD , sentenced to death and shot, among other things because of his former membership of the Lenin League. His wife Frieda Schimanski was imprisoned or exiled in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1954, their son Hans Schimanski from 1937 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1955; both were rehabilitated in 1957 and were allowed to leave for the GDR.
literature
- Schimanski, Fritz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
- Rüdiger Zimmermann : The Lenin League. Left communists in the Weimar Republic. Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-7700-5096-7 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schimanski, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schimanski, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilsit |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1938 |
| Place of death | Soviet Union |