Hans Degel

Hans Degel (born March 5, 1907 in Magdeburg , † June 21, 1984 ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1932/33 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament and in 1933 and again from 1950 to 1956 city councilor in Essen .

Life

From 1927 to 1933 Degel worked as a warehouse worker at the Krupp company in Essen and became a member of the KPD in 1927 and of the Krupp workers' council in March 1931 . In August 1932 he replaced Fritz Selbmann , who had left the parliament, in the Prussian state parliament. In March 1933 he was also a city councilor in Essen. He lost both mandates after the National Socialists “came to power” in 1933.

On March 2, 1933, Degel was arrested and held in the Sonnenburg concentration camp until March 1934 . In May 1935 he emigrated to the Netherlands , where he lived illegally. In July 1939 he was arrested by Dutch authorities and interned in a camp on the island of Vlieland . After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in May 1940, he was handed over to the Gestapo and transferred to Essen. On February 26, 1941, the Hamm Higher Regional Court sentenced him to two years and three months in prison . After his imprisonment, he was interned in the Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. After the liberation by British troops in April 1945, Degel stayed in the hospital for a long time .

After the end of the Second World War , Degel rejoined the KPD and worked again as a warehouse worker at Krupp in Essen. Degel was there from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1955 works . Degel was again a member of the Essen City Council from 1950 to 1956. After the KPD ban in the Federal Republic of Germany, he lost his mandate again and then ran a packaging shop in Essen.

literature

Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 4th electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1932, corrections for the manuals (as of February 15, 1933), p. 5.

personal data
SURNAME	Degel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1984

[1] Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 4th electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1932, corrections for the manuals (as of February 15, 1933), p. 5.