Heinrich Stahmer

This article deals with the politician Heinrich Stahmer. On the diplomat see Heinrich Georg Stahmer .

Heinrich Stahmer (born July 4, 1897 in Swinoujscie , † November 19, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a socialist politician.

After attending the mining school, Stahmer was drafted into military service in 1917. After the end of the war he settled in Hamburg and joined the USPD ; within the party he belonged to the left wing, which united with the KPD . At the same time, he took up a position as a port worker at the Hamburg State Quay . In 1924 Stahmer was elected to the Hamburg parliament (to which he belonged until the end of 1930) and from 1927 he was a member of the district leadership of the KPD. After the Wittorf affair , he succeeded the excluded John Wittorf as chairman of the parliamentary group, but because of his membership of the internal party faction of the Compromisers, he soon got into conflicts with the ultra-left majority line of the party leadership around Ernst Thälmann and the Hamburg district leadership. In March 1930, Stahmer, after he had refused to run as the top candidate of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO), which he classified as sectarian, for the works council elections in the electricity and port construction of Hamburg, together with the members of the Bundestag Hans Westermann and Albert Sanneck under the Accusations of “ parliamentary cretinism ” and “party hostility” were excluded from the KPD, whereupon he initially joined the SPD . Standing here on the left wing, at the end of 1931, together with the majority of the 100 to 150-member Compromisers group in Hamburg, he joined the newly founded Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD), whose top candidate was Stahmer in the Hamburg state election in 1932.

In 1945 Stahmer became a member of the SPD again and worked as a foreman at the Hamburg State Quay. In 1958 he had a fatal accident when a launch went down in the port of Hamburg.

literature

• Angelika Voss, Ursula Büttner , Hermann Weber : From the Hamburg uprising to political isolation. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1983, p. 96.
• Hermann Weber: Change of German Communism. Volume 2. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 309.
• Stahmer, Heinrich. In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945. 2., revised. and strong exp. Edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .