Gustav Ferl

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Gustav Ferl

Gustav Ferl (born December 23, 1890 in Magdeburg-Ottersleben , † April 25, 1970 in Bremen ) was a social democratic politician.

Live and act

His father was a farm worker and Ferl did an apprenticeship as a carpenter after school . Until 1919 he worked as a journeyman in his learned profession . From 1905 he was active in the workers' sports movement and held numerous functions there. In 1924 he was a board member of the state sports cartel for Saxony-Anhalt and district cashier of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association .

From 1919 Ferl worked full-time as a social democratic party secretary in Magdeburg . From 1922 to 1933 he was district party secretary for Saxony-Anhalt. He was also a member of the central party committee.

From 1919 to 1924 Ferl was a community representative, until 1929 a member of the district council and the district committee of the Wanzleben district . From 1925 to 1933 he represented constituency 10 in the Reichstag . He was also a member of the Prussian state parliament in 1924 and 1925 .

In the final phase of the Weimar Republic he was acting second federal leader of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in 1932 and 1933 . After the start of National Socialist rule , Ferl and Marie Arning first went into exile in Belgium . There he got involved with the Sopade party in exile . Ferl was one of the border secretaries who were responsible for smuggling in illegal social democratic documents. Among other things, he had contact with the resistance group of the Germania bread factory . In July 1936 he was also involved in a conversation between the Sopade and representatives of the KPD (including Walter Ulbricht ) in order to sound out cooperation between the two parties. Ferl later went to France and was interned there from 1939 to 1941 in Camp de Gurs . After his release, Ferl went to the USA. There, too, he remained connected to the Social Democrats and in 1947, together with other former members of the Reichstag, wrote a letter to the American government in which they advocated changes in the occupation policy. Ferl lived in America until his return to Germany in 1958.

Remarks

  1. ^ Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 2, p. 356
  2. ↑ Socialist Communications No. 26 1941
  3. ↑ Socialist Communications No. 95 1947

literature

  • Franz Osterroth and Dieter Schuster: Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 2: From the beginning of the Weimar Republic to the end of the Second World War . Bonn and Berlin 1975.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

See also

List of expatriates during National Socialism

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Ferl, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democratic politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg-Ottersleben
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1970
Place of death Bremen