Georg Berthelé
Georg Berthelé (born August 2, 1877 in Berlin ; † November 4, 1949 there ) was a communist politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Berthelé, who came from a working-class family, learned the profession of typesetter after attending elementary school and attended various workers' training institutions . Since 1897 a member of the Association of German Book Printers and the SPD , in the latter he took on various functions at local and regional level. Drafted to the front in 1915, Berthelé was seriously wounded and in 1917 joined the newly founded USPD , in which he held various functions in the Berlin-Brandenburg district. During the November Revolution, Berthelé became secretary to the new Berlin police chief Emil Eichhorn and in January 1919 narrowly escaped being shot by Reichswehr soldiers during the Spartacus uprising .
In the summer of 1920, Berthelé was elected to the Reichstag , and he was also a member of the Berlin city council. Within the USPD, Berthelé belonged to the left wing and consequently became a member of the VKPD, which was formed through the merger of the USPD-Left with the KPD , at the end of the year . During the internal party conflicts over the March 1921 campaign, he stood on the side of chairmen Paul Levi and Ernst Däumig and joined the KAG together with Eichhorn and several other members in January 1922 , but returned to the KPD in November 1922. After his mandate expired in 1924, he was a member of the board of the KPD-affiliated International Association of Victims of War and Labor and from 1925 headed the advertising expedition of the KPD press.
After the takeover of the Nazi Party in 1933 Berthele was resistance structures of the Red Aid active and was arrested in July 1935 tortured and sentenced the following year to 15 months in prison. After his release from prison, Berthelé remained under police supervision and worked as a commercial clerk until the end of the war. In 1945 he rejoined the KPD and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946, the SED and worked in the Pankow district office until his death in 1949 .
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Web links
- Georg Berthelé in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berthelé, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politicians (SPD, USPD, VKPD, KPD), MdR and resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1949 |
| Place of death | Berlin |