Hans Kollwitz
Hans Kollwitz (born August 13, 1893 in Stralsund , † November 14, 1948 in Rostock ) was a German craftsman (carpenter) and politician (KPD, SED).
Live and act
Hans Kollwitz was the son of a construction worker from Stralsund. He attended elementary school in his hometown and then learned the carpentry trade there . In 1918 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). For this he sat from 1920 in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In December of the same year, Kollwitz joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). As a member of the KPD parliamentary group, he was a member of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin parliament until 1921.
In 1924 Kollwitz was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the KPD , to which he belonged until 1928. In 1928 he came as his party's candidate for the constituency (East Prussia) in the Reichstag in Berlin, of which he was a member until 1930. In the Reichstag he stood out in particular as a defender of the right to asylum for Lithuanian emigrants, whose persecution and arrest by German authorities he strongly criticized.
In 1924 Kollwitz became secretary of the KPD in East Prussia and from 1927 to 1929 he was a member of the KPD's central committee. In 1930 Kollwitz was sentenced to several months' imprisonment for publicly calling for the formation of a “Red Front!”, Which he served in 1931 in the form of imprisonment . During the Nazi era, Kollwitz was arrested again and kept in prisons and concentration camps.
From June 1945 to April 1946, Hans Kollwitz was a member of the KPD district leadership in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He was then a member of the SED . From 1946 to 1948 he was also head of the information office at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
literature
- Kollwitz, Hans . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Literature about Hans Kollwitz in the state bibliography MV
- Hans Kollwitz in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ John Hiden : The Baltic in International Relations Between the Two World Wars , 1988, p. 328.
- ↑ Die Weltbühne Vol. 26, 1930, p. 755.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollwitz, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD, SED), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1948 |
| Place of death | Rostock |