Hans Schreyer

Johann "Hans" Baptist Friedrich Schreyer (born March 13, 1886 in Coburg , † May 9, 1945 in Eisenach ) was a communist politician .

Life

The trained blacksmith joined the SPD before 1914 and joined the USPD in Eisenach in 1917 . Here he belonged to the left wing, which at the end of 1920 merged with the KPD to form the VKPD .

In 1924 he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament on the KPD list . Together with his parliamentary colleagues Otto Geithner and Agnes Schmidt , he belonged to the “ultra-left” wing and was therefore excluded from the KPD in 1926 by the new party leadership around Ernst Thälmann . With Geithner and Schmidt he founded the Communist Working Group (KAG), which, however, remained unsuccessful in the January 1927 elections with 0.46%. A little later Schreyer rejoined the SPD. After the NSDAP came to power , he was temporarily taken into “ protective custody ”. During the Second World War he lived in Eisenach, where he first worked for the Reichsbahn and finally as a crane operator.

swell

• Short biography in: Hermann Weber : The change of German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 290.

literature

• Schreyer, 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 .
• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 600-601 .