Georg Dewald

Georg Dewald (born September 29, 1892 in Bamberg , † November 11, 1970 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After graduating from elementary school , Dewald, who was a Roman Catholic , completed an apprenticeship in wallpapering from 1906 to 1909 and also attended the commercial advanced training school of the Polytechnic Central Association founded by Franz Oberthür in Würzburg . Until 1913 he was a wallpapering assistant in Würzburg, Nuremberg , Munich and Schwetzingen , before joining the Bavarian army and serving as a soldier until the end of the First World War .

In 1919 he became editor and in 1921 editor-in-chief of the Aschaffenburger Volkszeitung , in which secret documents were published in 1923 about the radical right-wing assault department Roßbach and the Black Reichswehr and their links with official government agencies. He was then sentenced to seven months in prison for treason. From April 6, 1924 to April 29, 1933 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament (SPD). Before 1933 he was chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Aschaffenburg and head of the workers' culture cartel, a workers' education committee and a workers' sports cartel in Aschaffenburg.

In 1933, after the National Socialists came to power, he was arrested and interned in the Aschaffenburg regional court prison from March 1933 to June 1934 and temporarily in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was severely mistreated. In 1934 he resumed his learned profession and passed the master craftsman examination in 1936.

In October 1936 he emigrated to South Africa and worked there as an upholsterer. He later ran an upholstered furniture business in Pretoria . On November 1, 1952, he returned to Aschaffenburg. From 1953 to 1961 he was a member of the German Bundestag.

Political party

Dewald was SPD chairman in Bamberg from 1918 to 1921.

MP

Dewald was a member of the state parliament in Bavaria from 1924 to 1933 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1961.

Web links

Biography of Georg Dewald . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

Georg Dewald in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1227.

personal data
SURNAME	Dewald, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdB, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 1970
Place of death	Aschaffenburg

[1] Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1227.