Heinrich Rau (politician, 1879)

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Heinrich Rau (born April 12, 1879 in Tirschtiegel , † May 26, 1963 in Stralsund ) was a socialist politician.

Life

After attending the adult education center, the son of a master tailor worked as a clerk and later as a merchant in Gleiwitz and was an officer of the Salvation Army for six years and then a preacher of the Christian Community for two years . In 1910 Rau joined the SPD and during the First World War he joined the USPD , of which he was one of the leading representatives in Upper Silesia.

In January 1919 he was elected to the constitutional state assembly of Prussia. In addition, he published the magazine Morgenröte and was a board member of the adult education center in Gleiwitz. Within the USPD, Rau belonged to the left wing of the party, which at the end of 1920 merged with the KPD to form the VKPD . After the internal party conflicts over the March action , he returned to the USPD in 1922, for which he was elected to the Gliwice city council that same year. In autumn 1922 Rau belonged to the minority around Georg Ledebour and Theodor Liebknecht , who rejected the merger with the SPD.

Its economic existence was undermined by the Nazi authorities beginning in 1932–34. At that time, the youngest son was taken to the concentration camp in Sonnenburg . In 1944, at the age of 65, the Gestapo sent him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as an " enemy of the state " . In 1945 he took part in the death march from the camp. Heinrich Rau worked in Stralsund and in 1946 in Greifswald as mayor , in 1947 as mayor and from 1947/48 as district administrator .

Heinrich Rau's further fate is unknown.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Brunner: Stralsund - A city undergoing system change from the end of the German Empire to the 1960s. Publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59805-6 , p. 66.
  2. ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung No. 124/125, 1963.
personal data
SURNAME Rau, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (KPD, USPD, SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirschtiegel
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1963
Place of death Stralsund