Gustav Schumann

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Gustav Schumann

Gustav Schumann (born October 16, 1879 in Jüterbog ; † March 16, 1956 in Bad Sachsa ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Reichstag in the Weimar Republic .

Life

Gustav Schumann, born out of wedlock , attended elementary school in Jüterbog. He then did an apprenticeship as an office assistant in Berlin and attended a workers' training school. In 1900 he joined the SPD. Schumann worked as a legal assistant and accountant until 1908. He graduated from the central party school of the SPD in Berlin and worked from August 1908 to September 1910 at the Social Democratic Press Office in Berlin.

In October 1910 he became editor of the Volksbote in Stettin . He carried out this activity, with interruptions due to his participation in the war from 1914 to 1918, until 1930. From 1913 to 1930 he was a city councilor in Szczecin. In 1914 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the Stettin consumer association and the chairmanship of the district education committee of Pomerania .

In 1919 he became a member of the SPD district executive, to which he belonged until 1933. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian State Constituent Assembly , from 1919 to 1926 a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania and from 1921 to 1926 a member of the Prussian State Council . In 1924 he took over the chairmanship of the SPD district committee in Pomerania, became a member of the central SPD party committee and was a member of the board of the Pomeranian city council until 1933. From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag for constituency 6 (Pomerania). Since February 1930 paid city councilor in Stettin, he was dismissed from service in 1933.

In the era of National Socialism Gustav Schumann was imprisoned several times. During this time he moved his residence to the Harz Mountains and opened a haulage business. In August 1944 he was arrested as part of the grating action , interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp (prisoner number 5659) and released in January 1945.

After 1945 he took over the chairmanship of the SPD in Bad Sachsa, where he was a member of the city council from November 1945 to March 1953. From September 1948 to December 1949 he was mayor of the city. From 1948 to 1952 he was a member of the district assembly of the district of Osterode and was first district deputy in 1951/52. In 1953 he retired.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Lamprecht: The workers' parties in Pomerania in the first months of the Nazi dictatorship . In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (ed.): On the causes of the downfall of parliamentary democracy in the Weimar Republic - attempt to take stock of Mecklenburg and Pomerania . (Contributions to the seminar of the Association for Political and Social History Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eV in Rostock on August 30, 2001, Volume 2), p. 42
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 307.

literature

  • 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Jueterbog
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1956
Place of death Bad Sachsa