Georg Reinbold

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Stumbling block for Reinbold at the Karlsruhe Ständehaus

Georg Reinbold (pseudonym Simon or Salomon Schwarz ; born October 22, 1885 in Triberg , † May 24, 1946 in New York City ) was a German social democratic politician . During the Weimar Republic he was state chairman of the SPD in Baden .

Life

Reinbold worked as a locksmith and mechanic until 1912 . In 1906 he joined the SPD. In 1910 and 1911 he was a member of the Triberg Citizens' Committee . Also in 1911 he was chairman of the local union cartel . Between 1912 and 1920 he was a travel agent for the Volkswacht in Singen, which appeared in Freiburg . He was also party secretary of the SPD for the constituency of Baden I. During the First World War , he was a non-commissioned officer in the war.

Between 1920 and 1923 Reinbold was editor of the newspaper Volkswillen in Singen. There he was also a member of the local council from 1919 to 1922. In 1922 and 1923 he was also a district council member in Konstanz . Between 1923 and 1933, Reinbold was a full-time party secretary.

Reinbold was state chairman of the SPD in Baden from 1924 to 1933. He was also a member of the central party executive committee from 1923. Between 1924 and 1933 he was also a member of the Baden Gauvorstand of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold .

In 1919 Reinbold ran in vain for a seat in the Weimar National Assembly . Between 1925 and 1933 he was a member of the Baden state parliament . From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee and from 1931 to 1933 he was Vice President of Parliament.

At the beginning of the National Socialist era , Reinbold emigrated. First he went to the Saar area . In exile he sometimes lived under the name Simon or Salomon Schwarz. He was initially the border secretary of the Sopade . After the Saar referendum, he lived in France from 1935 and a short time later in Luxembourg . In 1936 Reinbold was officially expatriated from the German Reich. In 1938 Reinbold proposed, in vain, the unification of all parties of the Socialist International into a “unified political force”. In May 1940 Reinbold went to the south of France. Since 1941 he lived in the USA . Reinbold remained politically active and in 1944 participated, among other things, in a committee of emigrated German trade unionists who sought closer cooperation with the American trade union movement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boris Schilmar: The European discourse in exile in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, ISBN 3486568299 , p. 156 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Socialist communications on September 3, 1944

literature

  • Bernd Braun: Georg Reinbold (1885-1946) - the Baden SPD chairman in the resistance as border secretary , in: Angela Borgstedt u. a. (Ed.): Proved courage. Resistance biographies from the southwest (= writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg , published by the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg, vol. 46), Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 9783945414378 , pp. 99-108.

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personal data
SURNAME Reinbold, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Simon (pseudonym); Black, Salomon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Triberg
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1946
Place of death New York City