Georg Karl (politician, 1882)
Georg Karl (born July 21, 1882 in Munich , † January 16, 1964 in Nuremberg ) was a German politician ( KPD ). During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament .
Life
Georg Karl attended elementary school and then continued education for three years. He learned the trade of machinist and mechanic in Munich and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) before the First World War and moved to Nuremberg in July 1918. There he became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and in December 1920 was a delegate at the unification congress of the USPD left with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Berlin . From 1923 Karl acted as party secretary of the northern Bavarian KPD. In October 1923 he was taken into " protective custody " and released in May 1924. Karl then took over the leadership of the KPD in Northern Bavaria, but was imprisoned again for some time in 1925.
Karl was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from May 30, 1927 to 1928, as the successor to the retired Joseph Götz . At the beginning of 1928 he was again temporarily organ leader in Bavaria. In 1928 he became district secretary of the KPD for the Upper Palatinate, then head of the KPD literature center for the district of Northern Bavaria. Later he worked as the district leader of the Red Aid in Königsberg (Prussia) and in April 1931 was appointed to the office of the Red Aid in Moscow .
After 1933 he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for a long time . In 1945 Karl rejoined the KPD, but no longer held any functions in the party and finally separated from the party in 1949. In 1946 he was a member of the advisory board for the reconstruction of the city of Nuremberg. There he had made a living as a potato and grocery wholesaler.
literature
- Karl, Georg . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Georg Karl in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Short biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karl, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanic and party functionary of the KPD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1964 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |