Hans von Borstel

Hans von Borstel , also Johannes von Borstel (born March 3, 1888 in Stade , † October 6, 1962 in Hamburg ) was a German communist politician .

Life

After attending elementary school, von Borstel worked as a railroad worker and joined the SPD before 1914 . In 1917 he joined the newly founded USPD , where he belonged to the left wing, which merged with the KPD in late 1920 .

In 1921 he was - together with Ernst Thälmann - briefly co-chairman of the Hamburg KPD, in the same year he was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which he belonged until 1927. During the Hamburg uprising in 1923, von Borstel was a member of the local armed forces, and from 1923 he was also a member of the central trade union commission of the KPD and editor of the Hamburger Volkszeitung .

Initially one of Thälmann's supporters in the internal party disputes, von Borstel distanced himself from him at the end of 1926 and was excluded from the KPD a little later. In the following years, von Borstel worked for the Hamburg welfare authority, belonged to the circle around Karl Korsch and was at the same time a member of the SPD again.

Temporary imprisonment after the NSDAP came to power , von Borstel was again active in opposition-communist groups after liberation from National Socialism in 1945.

His older brother Nicolaus von Borstel (1885–1963) was mayor of Stade in 1946 and a longstanding member of the Lower Saxony state parliament.

literature

• 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. 83.
• Borstel, Hans von . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .