Hans Fuchs (politician, 1894)

Hans Fuchs (born May 19, 1894 in Düsseldorf , † December 12, 1954 in Schwerin ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the early German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1920 to 1933 and from 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Mecklenburg State Parliament .

Life

Fuchs, the son of a factory worker, learned the profession of confectioner after graduating from high school and went on a hike. In 1914 he was drafted and fought in World War I until 1918 . In 1917 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Schwerin during the November Revolution .

In 1919, Fuchs was elected chairman of the USPD Schwerin. In the violent dispute over the direction within the USPD, he initially advocated joining the Communist International (Comintern) and merging with the KPD. When the left wing of the USPD joined the KPD in December 1920, Fuchs switched to the KPD and became its state secretary for Mecklenburg and Lübeck on a full-time basis . At the 7th party congress of the KPD, Fuchs was also elected as a substitute member of the Central Committee.

In 1920 Fuchs was elected for the KPD in the Mecklenburg Landtag, to which he belonged until the National Socialists came to power and communist activities were banned in January 1933. In 1922, however, Fuchs changed his position, resigned from the KPD while taking his state parliament mandate and rejoined the rest of the USPD. From October 1922 to July 1923 he was a member of the Reich executive committee and was at times editor of the USPD newspaper Weltbühne in Schwerin. In July 1923, after the return of the rest of the USPD to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) , Fuchs became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was an SPD city ​​councilor in Schwerin and chairman of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin non-profit building cooperative from 1922 to 1933 .

During the time of National Socialism , Fuchs was persecuted politically. Between 1933 and 1944 he was imprisoned several times without charge, including in the Schwerin regional court prison. He was then made compulsory service, drafted into the Wehrmacht at the end of 1944 and fought in World War II .

After the end of the war, Fuchs became a member of the SPD again and advocated unification with the KPD. After the forced unification of the KPD and SPD to form the SED in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany , he became a member of the latter in 1946. From 1945 to 1947 he was a paid city councilor in Schwerin, and from October 1946 to 1950 he was again a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament. In 1948 he became deputy head of the main administration for agriculture and forestry of the German Economic Commission (DWK).

literature

• Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945-1949. On behalf of the Department of History and Politics of the GDR at the University of Mannheim . 2nd edition 1993, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-486-55262-1 .
• Klaus Schwabe: State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1946 . Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament (ed.), Schwerin 1996.
• 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 . ( online )

Web links

• Literature about Hans Fuchs (politician, 1894) in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Hans Fuchs (politician, 1894) in the state bibliography MV