Hans Bohla

Hans Bohla (born January 26, 1891 in Herreth ; † January 8, 1928 in Heilbronn ), pseudonym Ernst Kunert , sometimes called Franz Bohla , was a German communist politician and journalist .

The son of a senior teacher Bohla attended grammar school in Erlangen and then began studying in Leipzig . In 1918 he joined the USPD . There he became editor of the USPD newspaper Volksblatt in Halle and joined the left wing of the USPD with the KPD at the end of 1920 . Hans Bohla, who also belonged to the left wing there, worked here first as editor of the daily newspapers Klassenkampf in Halle and Kommunist in Stuttgart and then from 1922 to 1923 as secretary of the Palatinate party district until the French authorities expelled him from there.

In 1924, after the new left party leadership around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow took office , Bohla was sent to the right-wing district of Württemberg as a pole leader . Imprisoned in September 1924, he was released at the end of 1924 after being elected to the Reichstag . After the intervention of Stalin to the factional struggles Bohla in 1925 by the new leadership under Ernst Thalmann released from his party functions, in August 1927, he resigned after the expulsion from the party of George Kenzler in solidarity with this from the KPD and joined in the Reichstag the Left Communists on . A few months later, Bohla died at the age of 36. Otto Weber moved up for him in the Reichstag.

References

literature

• Bohla, Hans . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Günter Hortzschansky and Käthe Haferkorn: Ernst Thälmann. A biography. Berlin 1985.

Web links

• Hans Bohla in the database of members of the Reichstag