Georg Dietrich (politician, 1888)

Election poster of the SPD, Wilhelm Bock , Kurt Rosenfeld , August Frölich , Mathilde Wurm , Georg Dietrich, Karl Hermann , August Siemsen , Elsa Niviera , Erich Mäder

Georg Dietrich (born June 6, 1888 in Groß -zimmer ; † June 15, 1971 in Bern ) was a German politician in the Weimar Republic and a member of the Reichstag ( SPD ) from 1924 to 1933.

Life

Dietrich came from the family of a carpenter . He attended elementary school in Groß -zimmer and learned the printing trade . He then worked as a book printer, operations manager and managing director of a printing company. In 1912 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Because "anti-war propaganda," he was together with 1914 Clara Zetkin , Frederick West Meyer and Hans Tittel temporarily arrested. Regardless of this, he was drafted into army service. In 1918 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), but returned to the SPD in 1921. In 1919 he became a city ​​councilor in Karlsruhe , and in January 1922 he became district secretary of the SPD in the Greater Thuringia district . In 1924 he was elected to the Reichstag, which he was to belong to until 1933. In 1929 he was elected district chairman as a representative of a moderate left-wing socialist line.

In 1933 Dietrich fled to Switzerland , where he worked in refugee aid for several years . Until 1936 he maintained contact with anti-fascist resistance groups in southwest Germany. In 1939 he emigrated to the USA and worked there as a book printer. In 1945 he became a US citizen and did not return to Germany. Before his death he lived in Switzerland.

literature

• Steffen Kachel: A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 544. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series, Volume 29)

Web links

• The Reichstag Protocols 1919 to 1939
• Georg Dietrich in the database of members of the Reichstag