Georg Engelbert Graf

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Georg Engelbert Graf

Georg Engelbert Graf (born July 25, 1881 in Bobstadt , Hesse; † December 3, 1952 in Berlin ) was a social democratic politician , lecturer and author .

Life

Graf - son of a teacher - began studying at university in Berlin after graduating from high school in Bensheim . He broke off his studies in 1905 without a degree. In the following years he worked as the salary general secretary of the Association for the Promotion of Art in Berlin. In 1908 he joined the SPD. Hoffmann worked as a traveling teacher on the party's central education committee until 1912 . In 1913 he started studying again in Zurich , but dropped out again in 1914. In 1914 Graf was conscripted and worked as a scientific assistant from 1917 to 1919 as a department head in the War Ministry.

In 1917 Graf joined the USPD and after the First World War was the editor of various youth magazines (Free Youth, Proletarian Youth) of the party. In addition, from 1919 to 1921 he was a teacher at the socialist Heimvolkshochschule Tinz near Gera . In 1922 he became a member of the SPD again. From 1921 to 1933 Graf was head of the education system of the metal workers' association . In addition, he taught at numerous adult education centers, trade union educational institutions, universities and the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main .

Graf was the editor of a series of publications for the Young Socialists . Within the Young Socialists he belonged to the Marxist wing, positioned himself against the nationalist Hofgeismar circle and acted from 1925 until the dissolution of the association in 1931 as editor of the Young Socialist papers and as editor of the Young Socialist series of publications . In the 1920s and early 1930s Graf was part of the left wing of the SPD. He was involved in the magazine Klassenkampf - Marxistische Blätter and belonged to the “hard core” of nine SPD members of the Reichstag around Max Seydewitz and Kurt Rosenfeld , who often violated parliamentary group discipline. However, he escaped being excluded from the party and did not switch to SAP , but belonged to the circle of the Marxist left remaining in the SPD around the journal Marxist Tribune , headed by Arkadij Gurland , and published the short-lived monthly journal Sozialistische Jugend .

Graf was a member of the Reichstag between 1928 and 1933. Graf had been active as an author and editor in a wide variety of areas since the Weimar Republic . In addition to political and scientific works, he also wrote children's books. During the time of National Socialism he worked as a freelance writer.

After the Second World War he was initially a school clerk for the provincial government in Brandenburg. In 1946 and 1947 he was a lecturer in social geography at the University of Jena .

In 1947 Graf left the SED , became a member of the SPD again and moved to Berlin. From 1948 until his death he headed the adult education center in Wilmersdorf and was also a lecturer at various universities, colleges and academies in Berlin. In 1948 he received his doctorate from the Free University in Berlin.

Remarks

  1. ^ Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 2, p. 148 as well as Hanno Drechsler: The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). A contribution to the history of the German labor movement at the end of the Weimar Republic . Meisenheim am Glan 1965, p. 24ff and p. 74
  2. ^ Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 2, p. 241 and Hanno Drechsler: The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). A contribution to the history of the German labor movement at the end of the Weimar Republic . Meisenheim am Glan 1965, pp. 21, 67 and 122ff
  3. ^ Socialist communications 77/78 1945

literature

  • Franz Osterroth and Dieter Schuster: Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 2: From the beginning of the Weimar Republic to the end of the Second World War . Bonn and Berlin 1975.
  • 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Count, Georg Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lecturer and politician (USPD, SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobstadt , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1952
Place of death Berlin