Gustav Köhler (politician)

Gustav Köhler (born September 5, 1885 in Stendal ; † August 20, 1952 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( KPD ). From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Landtag of the Free People's State of Württemberg .

Life

The trained mechanic Köhler was already a member of the SPD before 1914 . After the First World War he moved to Ulm , where he joined the USPD . In 1920 he moved with the left USPD to the KPD. In the KPD, too, he belonged to the left wing of the party.

In May 1924 he was elected to the Württemberg state parliament, in the same year he became a full-time organ leader of the KPD district of Württemberg. At the beginning of 1927 Köhler was replaced as organ leader, but he remained a full-time instructor for the KPD in the Black Forest and later in Ulm. In May 1928 and April 1932 he was re-elected to the state parliament.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Köhler was arrested on March 13, 1933 and held in various concentration camps for over twelve years: from 1933 to 1935 in the Heuberg and Kuhberg concentration camps , then from July 1935 to September 1939 in the Dachau concentration camp , 1939/40 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp , then again in the Dachau concentration camp, most recently in the Utting subcamp.

Badly bad health, Köhler returned to Württemberg after his liberation. Until he reached the age limit in 1950, he worked as a reporter in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior. In 1952 Köhler died after a long and serious illness.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-77005-189-0 , p. 84.
• Markus Kienle: The Heuberg concentration camp near Stetten on the cold market . Klemm and Oelschläger, Ulm 1998, ISBN 3-932577-10-8 , p. 106f. and 172.
• Koehler, Gustav . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 457 .