Hermann Bischoff (politician)

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Hermann Bischoff (born October 18, 1875 in Graefenroda , † December 16, 1959 in Arnstadt ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ). From 1924 to 1927 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Life

Bischoff, the son of a small farmer, worked as a line worker. During his wanderings he learned the trade of miller . Drafted in 1916, he fought in the First World War until 1918 . Before the war he had returned to his home in Thuringia and joined the SPD . In 1917 he moved to the USPD and in 1920 to the KPD. In 1920 he was a co-founder of the Notgemeinschaft der Roggenschuldner, a small farmer's organization in Thuringia that is close to the KPD . In addition to Richard Zimmermann , Bischoff played a major role in the expansion of the Federation of Schaffender Landwirte (BsL) in Thuringia, which was founded in 1922 ; he was temporarily chairman of the Thuringian District Association. In October 1923 he was a delegate of the KPD at the 1st International Farmers' Congress in Moscow .

From 1924 to 1927, Bischoff was a member of the Thuringian state parliament - elected in the Arnstadt constituency - and a member of the KPD district leadership, where he was responsible for the land department. In 1927 the KPD did not put Bischoff back up for the state election and he withdrew from party work. Bischoff started his own business on a forest estate in Ölschroda near Friedersdorf and leased an inn in 1933.

On August 22, 1944, Bischoff was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp , but released on September 2, 1944. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Bischoff rejoined the KPD, became a member of the SED in 1946 and was party secretary and chairman of the local committee of the Association of Mutual Peasants' Aid (VdgB) in Holzhausen until 1956 . In 1957 Bischoff moved to Arnstadt, where he died in 1959.

Honors

literature

  • Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic . Volume 2. Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 76.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-77005-189-0 , p. 12
  • 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 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Reinhold: The KPD and the Federation of Schaffender Landwirte in the Rhön 1924–1933 . In: Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte , 15/1 (1988), pp. 195–220 (here: p. 208).
personal data
SURNAME Bischoff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefenroda
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1959
Place of death Arnstadt