Hans Gostomski

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Hans Gostomski (born September 12, 1898 in Berlin ; † 1934 ) was a communist politician.

Life

Gostomski attended the city school in Lenzen and then took up a degree in oriental languages ​​in Berlin and worked as a commercial clerk. Drafted for military service in 1918, Gostomski was seriously wounded. During the November Revolution it belonged to the Soldiers of the XX. Army Corps . Returned to Berlin in 1919, he worked for the Berlin magistrate and joined the USPD in the same year and the KPD in 1920 .

In 1922 Gostomski moved to Hamburg, where he was elected to the Bundestag for the KPD in 1924 and headed the local International Association of Victims of War and Labor . In April 1925, after an internal intrigue, Gostomski, who belonged to the left wing of the party, was forced to resign and transferred to Berlin, where he became active in various left-wing groups after leaving the party in 1927.

In 1931 he joined the newly founded Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD), in whose Berlin party organization he took on leading positions. Internally, he belonged to the left, "Leninist" wing of the party, so he demanded in an article in the Socialist Workers' Newspaper on January 1, 1933, that the majority of the party board members around Max Seydewitz and Kurt Rosenfeld should be replaced by a "... clear-cut revolutionary leadership ...".

After the NSDAP “came to power ” in 1933 and in the following years, Gostomski was arrested several times.

There is no reliable information about Gostomski's further life. H. Weber / A. Herbst commit suicide in 1934.

literature

  • Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Frankfurt / Main 1969, Volume 2, pp. 140f.
  • Gostomski, 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 258.
personal data
SURNAME Gostomski, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SADP), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1934