Georg Große

Georg Große (born February 25, 1897 in Lipten , Brandenburg province , † March 20, 1967 in Kohlscheid ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the first elected state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Große attended elementary school and then began working as a miner from 1915 . However, he interrupted his work the following year in order to take part in the First World War as a soldier until early 1919 . He then continued to work as a miner. He had become a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920 and was a member of the municipal councils in Oidtweiler and Alsdorf from 1929 to 1932 . From 1931 he was also in the district leadership of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) and was dismissed in the same year for his political activities in the company.

Political persecution by the National Socialists began for Große in February 1933, followed by emigration and imprisonment, from which he was released in 1940. He started working as a coal miner again. Another arrest followed in August 1944 before he was released again.

From October 1944, Große worked as a miner in Wattenscheid . There he became chairman of the works council in January 1945 and participated in the re-establishment of the Free German Trade Union Federation . After 1946 he was a full-time district manager in the mining industry association. From 1946 to 1950 he worked as a district manager at IG Bergbau und Energie .

Große lived in Alsdorf and was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament via the KPD's state list in the first electoral period and was a member of the parliament from April 20, 1947 to June 17, 1950, and from July 3, 1947 he was deputy chairman of the Reconstruction Committee.

Individual evidence

^ Unit: Organ of the Mining and Energy Industrial Union. Berg-Verlag, 1967, page 62.
↑ Jens Ulrich Klocksin : Communists in Parliament: the KPD in the governments and parliaments of the West German occupation zones and the Federal Republic of Germany (1945–1956). Verlag im Hof, 1994, 2nd new edition, ISBN 978-3-925689-04-8 , page 174.

Web links

Georg Große at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

personal data
SURNAME	Big one, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lipten , Brandenburg Province
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 1967
Place of death	Kohlscheid

[1] Unit: Organ of the Mining and Energy Industrial Union. Berg-Verlag, 1967, page 62.

[2] Jens Ulrich Klocksin : Communists in Parliament: the KPD in the governments and parliaments of the West German occupation zones and the Federal Republic of Germany (1945–1956). Verlag im Hof, 1994, 2nd new edition, ISBN 978-3-925689-04-8 , page 174.