Gustav Brandt (politician)
Gustav ("Guschi") Brandt (born April 4, 1894 in Wolfsdorf , Elbing district ; † spring 1945 between Münster and Werl ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and a member of the Hamburg parliament .
Life
Gustav Brandt grew up in East Prussia and attended elementary school there from 1902 to 1908 . After school he went to sea until the outbreak of the First World War and from 1908 he was a member of the merchant navy. After the beginning of the war he was drafted into the Imperial Navy , where he acquired the “Schiffer auf kleine Fahrt” patent.
After the First World War he went to sea again briefly, but then stayed on land in areas close to shipping. Residing in Hamburg-Eppendorf , he worked at the Stülcken , Vulkan and Reiherstieg shipyards . At Vulkan, he took over the position of the works council in the late 1920s .
Gustav Brandt joined the SPD in 1910 at the age of 16 and later joined the Spartakusbund during the World War . As a member of the People's Navy Division in 1918, he was involved in the Berlin Christmas uprisings. In 1919 he joined the newly founded KPD. In the Weimar Republic he was also a member of the " Red Navy ", a sub-organization of the Red Front Fighter League (RFB) and there he was part of the district management for Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony . From 1924 Brandt headed the section of the “Red Navy” in the RFB-Gau Wasserkante. Here he also worked as an instructor.
From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament . He did not stand out as a major speaker. In 1933 he was sentenced to eleven years in prison for his involvement in the " Altona Blood Sunday ". These judgments were declared null and void by German courts and overturned. He remained imprisoned in the Münster penitentiary for years, but was not released after eleven years. While still in prison, he was drafted into the military and was to be brought to Werl with other inmates. He never got there. The assumption that he was shot by SS men on the transport is based on statements made by survivors of the transport.
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In Hamburg, on June 8, 2012, stumbling blocks were laid in front of the town hall for the murdered members of the Hamburg citizenship, including Gustav Brandt.
literature
- Frank Müller: Members of the Citizenship. Victim of totalitarian persecution. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 1993, DNB 930735587 .
- Brandt, Gustav . 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 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandt, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brandt, Guschi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfsdorf , district of Elbing |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |
| Place of death | between Münster and Werl |