Hans Ziegler (politician)

Hans Ziegler (born March 9, 1877 in Henfenfeld , † March 19, 1957 in Nuremberg ) was a socialist politician and trade unionist .

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Ziegler learned the lathe trade after attending primary school. As a young man, he joined the German Metal Workers' Association (DMV) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After the end of his first marriage, which resulted in a daughter, Ziegler married the maid Anna Strauss in 1913 , who, like him, embarked on a political career in the SPD.

During the First World War , Ziegler left the SPD in 1916 and joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). During the November Revolution of 1918 he was a delegate to the national council congress . In 1920 he was elected to the state parliament of Württemberg , to which he belonged until 1924. Around 1922 Ziegler returned to the SPD, where he belonged to the left wing of the party. In addition, he acted as local and district chairman as well as managing director of the local division of the DMV in Heilbronn .

In 1930 Ziegler was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 7 (Breslau) . Together with five party friends, he was expelled from the SPD in September 1931 after repeated breaches of parliamentary group discipline. He then participated in the founding of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). In this Ziegler acted as a trade union expert, a status that was due to him mainly due to the fact that he was practically the only prominent trade union representative in the ranks of the SAPD, in which he was part of the left- wing, social-democratic- pacifist wing around Anna Siemsen . Ziegler's union activity was controversial in his new party. In particular, he was accused of being too cautious as a delegate of the trade union congress towards the DMV leadership, which is dominated by the SPD.

In March 1933, a month after the Reichstag fire , Ziegler was arrested and for a long time in a concentration camp held. After the war, Ziegler served as Lord Mayor of Nuremberg from 1945 to 1948 . In the summer of 1949 he took over the chairmanship of the Action for Peace and International Understanding . The SPD soon excluded Ziegler again from their ranks after attending a peace congress in Moscow.

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 1070 .

Web links

• Photo by Hans Ziegler at Nordbayern.de
• Hans Ziegler in the database of members of the Reichstag