Georg Klaussner

Georg Klaußner (born November 2, 1882 in Ziegelstein , † October 2, 1936 in Storkow ) was a German farmer , trade unionist and politician ( USPD , SPD ).

Life

Georg Klaußner was born in Ziegelstein- Herrnhütte near Nuremberg . After graduating from primary school and attending the workers' training school in Berlin , he completed an apprenticeship in metalwork. He practiced his profession in Württemberg, Bavaria, Baden, the Rhine Palatinate and most recently in Berlin in 1919. From 1919 to 1933 he ran a farm in Storkow. He joined the SPD in 1900 and in the same year began to get involved in the labor movement. From 1928 to 1933 he was chairman of the local committee of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Storkow. In 1932/33 he was chairman or board member of the AOK for the Beeskow-Storkow district .

Klaussner joined the USPD in protest in 1917. During the November Revolution he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Workers' Council for the Beeskow-Storkow district. On September 27, 1922, he became a member of the SPD again. From 1919 to 1933 he was city councilor, from 1927 to 1932 second head of city council and in 1932 unpaid member of the magistrate in Storkow. He was also a member of the district committee of the Beeskow-Storkow district from 1922 to 1928. In addition, from 1928 he was chairman of the ADGB local committee in Storkow.

Klaußner was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly from 1919 to 1921 . In February 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged without interruption until the body was dissolved on October 14, 1933. In parliament he represented constituency 3 (Potsdam II).

After the National Socialists came to power , Klaußner was taken into “protective custody” on March 12, 1933. He was released the following day. The brief imprisonment was primarily intended to intimidate political opponents of the Nazi movement. For fear of being arrested again, Klaußner left Storkow. But at the beginning of April 1933 he returned to take part in the newly elected city council. At the end of May 1933 he took part for the last time in a city council meeting in Storkow. Then he fled to Berlin, where he went into hiding. He was considering emigrating to Switzerland. But the Gestapo arrested Klaussner on July 18, 1933. The arrest warrant was dated June 24, 1933. He was first taken to the Plötzensee prison, after which he was briefly imprisoned in the Brandenburg concentration camp . A little later, Klaußner was transferred to the Oranienburg concentration camp . There he remained as a “protective prisoner” until March 12, 1934. After that, he was referred to the state hospital in Berlin because of his poor health. After the treatment, Klaußner returned to the Oranienburg concentration camp for a short time, where he was finally released on May 31, 1934.

Due to the poor health after his imprisonment, Klaußner could no longer pursue gainful employment. A year and a half later he died in the hospital in Storkow.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928, p. 545.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 803.
• André Olbrich, Siegfried Mielke : Georg Klaußner (1882-1936). In: Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz (eds.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Trade unionists in the Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Biographical Handbook, Volume 4 (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 6). Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-148-3 , pp. 500–503.

Web links

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