Hans Plettner

Hans Plettner (born December 9, 1887 in Berlin , † November 5, 1961 in West Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD, USPD, KPD).

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After attending primary school, Plettner learned the model carpentry trade. Around 1905 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). During his years of traveling , Plettner traveled to southern and central Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. From 1909 to 1912 he lived in France, where he attended popular lectures at the Sorbonne . He received further training at the Humboldt Academy and at the workers' training school in Berlin.

From 1915 to 1918 Plettner took part in the First World War. Around 1917, Plettner left the SPD, as it supported the approval of the war loans that financed the war, and joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) , which was further to the left .

In the Reichstag election in 1920 (June 1920) he entered the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the USPD . During his time in parliament, to which he was a member until May 1924, Plettner first switched from the USPD to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), then back to the USPD and finally back to his original party, the SPD.

Outside of parliament, Plettner worked on the newspaper Volksrecht . In addition, since May 1919 he took on the role of party secretary for the USPD in Hanover.

literature

• Plettner, 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 .

Web links

• Hans Plettner in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert F. Wheeler: The Independent Social Democratic Party and the Internationals , 1970, p. 210.
2. ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam , Berlin 1920.