Gustav Hoch

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Gustav Hoch

Gustav Hoch (born January 10, 1862 in Neubrück , Samter district , Posen province ; † October 4, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After secondary school, Hoch first completed a commercial apprenticeship in Gdansk . He then attended high school in Stolp , where he graduated from high school in 1885. In the same year he began studying political science at the University of Berlin , which he continued after his military service (1886/87) in Königsberg and finished in 1890 at the University of Zurich . He then worked as a writer and editor of the Frankfurter Volksstimme in Frankfurt am Main . In 1895 he moved to Hanau , where he ran a book and tobacco shop and from 1903 to 1919 worked as a workers' secretary. As a part-time job, he was editor of the trade union newspaper Dachdecker-Zeitung until 1916 . He also wrote for the social democratic women's magazine Die Gleichheit .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Hoch was in " protective custody " for political reasons from June to December 1933 . Because of his Jewish origin - he had left the Jewish community - he was later obliged to do forced labor . From 1940, Hoch lived in a Jewish retirement home in Berlin. On July 21, 1942, he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , where he perished in October 1942. Hoch was married and had two sons; his older son Gustav was a doctor. He and his wife Hanna, geb. Gottschalk, who was also a doctor, and their two sons were deported to the Warsaw ghetto and finally murdered in Majdanek . Hoch's second son Fritz was the first district president of the administrative district of Kassel after the Second World War .

Political party

In 1888, Hoch joined the - then illegal - SPD. Together with Friedrich Brühne , who later became a member of the Reichstag , in 1890 he founded the SPD local association Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

MP

From 1902 to 1908 and from 1910 to 1919 Hoch was a city councilor in Hanau. In the Reichstag election in 1898 , Hoch won the constituency of Hanau- Gelnhausen and thus entered the parliament of the empire for the first time. In 1903 he lost the mandate again, but was able to prevail again in the Reichstag election in 1907 in the same constituency and then belonged to the Reichstag until 1918. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly , after which he was a member of the Reichstag until 1928 .

Publications

  • Words and deeds of the worker-friendly center. A thought-provoking chapter for workers. Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1900.
  • The health insurance of the Reich Insurance Code. After the resolutions of the Reichstag - an overview of the most important resolutions. Schnapper, Frankfurt am Main 1911.
  • Reich Insurance Code and Introductory Act with notes and subject index. Gable, Berlin 1911.
  • New taxes during the war? Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1916.
  • The international regulation of social security. ADGB publishing company, Berlin 1930.

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag
Stumbling stone for Gustav Hoch in Dessau-Roßlau at the crossing Franzstrasse / Askanische Strasse (far right)

After high is the Gustav-high-road in Hanau named. Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Hoch in Berlin near the Reichstag . On March 20, 2015, a stumbling block was laid for him from Hoch's last place of residence in Dessau-Roßlau .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 , Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 287.
  2. ^ Commemorative culture Dessau: Gustav Hoch junior ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gedenkkultur-dessau-rosslau.de
  3. ↑ Action in Dessau: More stumbling blocks are being laid . In: mz-web.de. March 13, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Up, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrück , Samter District , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp