Heinrich Böschen

Heinrich Böschen (born October 27, 1887 in Bremen ; † 20th century) was a German trade unionist and communist politician.

Life

Böschen learned the trade of a bricklayer and in 1906 joined the building trade union and the SPD . In 1917 he moved with parts of the party to the USPD . He was a USPD delegate for Danzig at the unification congress of the KPD and USPD in 1920.

Böschen then lived in the Rhineland as a DMV official . Between 1920 and 1926 he was a member of the leadership of the KPD in the Solingen sub-district . He was elected to the party's central committee at the national level in 1921 and 1923. Since 1926 he was secretary of the KPD district management Niederrhein for union issues. In 1928 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament.

In 1929 he became the head of organization for the Lower Rhine district of the KPD. He took part in the 1929 party congress as a delegate. In 1930 he gave up his position as head of organization. Instead, in 1931 he became political director of the unified construction workers' association in the RGO .

At the beginning of the Nazi regime , he was arrested and two years and nine months in prison sentenced. He was then imprisoned in a concentration camp . During the Second World War he was drafted into service by the Todt organization . At the end of the war he was missing. He was pronounced dead on December 31, 1945 in 1959.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).