Georg Stolt
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Georg Stolt (born November 22, 1879 in Hamburg , † January 21, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German politician (USPD / KPD).
Live and act
After attending school, Stolt learned the carpentry trade . In 1900 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . From 1902 he became a trade union treasurer in Frankfurt am Main . According to later claims, there should have been irregularities in the cash register during this time. In 1905 he became a full-time workers secretary for the SPD. In this capacity he was deployed first in Frankfurt, then in Königsberg and other places. In 1912 he was dismissed from this post in Bremen because he should have embezzled funds in Königsberg. However, according to his own account, these funds were stolen from him.
From 1914 to 1918, Stolt took part in the First World War as a railway foreman in the Railway Regiment I. In 1917 Stolt left the SPD in order to join the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which had split off from the party because of the rejection of the war policy of the SPD leadership . After the outbreak of the November Revolution of 1918, he was initially elected chairman of the soldiers' council of the Guard Corps . On November 28, 1918, he became chairman of the Committee of Seven of the Berlin Soldiers' Council and, in the spring of 1919, soldier representatives of the Berlin troops in the Executive Council of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council in Greater Berlin .
For the USPD, Stolt became a member of the Berlin City Council in 1920, to which he was a member until 1924. In 1920 he joined the Communist Party with numerous other USPD members and in this context was also a member of the Unification Party Congress. In the KPD he belonged to the Berlin left wing. Since 1926 he has been part of the Thälmann Group.
From 1924 to 1928 and again from 1931 to 1932 Stolt sat as a member of the KPD in the Prussian state parliament . In the early 1930s he was active as a section leader in Moabit in the Red Front Fighters League and in the working group of socio-political organizations.
On July 14, 1932, Stolt was sentenced to three years in prison for his involvement in the fatal attack on the 15-year-old Hitler Youth Herbert Norkus .
As a KPD functionary and a prominent veteran of the November Revolution, Stolt was taken into protective custody by the National Socialists along with forty other Communists in 1933, according to other information on January 19, 1934, and taken to the Maikowskihaus SA barracks , where he was on January 21 1934 was killed by members of the SA storm Charlottenburg. The sources differ about the exact circumstances of his death: some people say that Stolt was killed during interrogation, and some say that he was shot in the head.
literature
- Gerhard Engel : Great Berlin workers and soldiers councils in the revolution 1918/1919. 1994, p. 64.
- Stolt, Georg . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" Reich capital: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. P. 298.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolt, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (USPD; KPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1934 |
| Place of death | Berlin |