Gustav Krüger (Police President)

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Gustav Krüger (born September 14, 1878 in Thorn ; † December 3, 1927 in Magdeburg ) was a social democrat, typesetter, editor and police chief in Magdeburg.

Life

Gustav Krüger worked as a workers secretary in Dessau from 1909 and in Bremerhaven from 1912. During the First World War, he was drafted into military service in 1915 and seriously wounded in northern France in 1916. While working in the war, he had already published his field post letters in the Magdeburg Volksstimme , among others . From the hospital he published these letters in 1916 in the book "Der Sozialist an der Front".

In April 1919 he was appointed provisional and then regular police chief of Magdeburg. He stayed in office until a smear campaign by opponents of the republic in 1924 or 1925 forced him to resign. In a subsequent process, a later successor as police chief defended him: Horst W. Baerensprung .

Gustav Krüger represented the SPD from 1919 to 1921 in the city parliament of Magdeburg. He was co-founder of the " Reich Association of War Disabled" and the " Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold ". In the " Illustrierte Reichsbanner-Zeitung " he wrote numerous articles as editor-in-chief. It is assumed that the numerous hostilities of the bourgeois press of Magdeburg drove Gustav Krüger to suicide.

Works

  • s. O.

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann: Krüger, Gustav , in: Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon [2] .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information 1925 in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon, information 1924 in: Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry, Volume 11 / II, November 14, 1918 to March 31, 1925, revised. by G. Schulz, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2002, p. 627.
  2. ↑ Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon [1]
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Police chief of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1927
Place of death Magdeburg