Hermann Drechsler

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Hermann Drechsler (born August 4, 1876 in Göttendorf , † August 16, 1951 in Gera ) was a German editor of a workers' newspaper, USPD functionary, prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and district administrator ( SPD / KPD ).

Life

Drechsler was born into a working-class family as the son of a master weaver . After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of a weaver. He then went on a hike and earned his living in Switzerland from 1895 to 1900 . There he founded the Swiss textile workers' association. In 1900 he came back to Thuringia , went to Gera and became a workers secretary at the German Textile Workers' Association . From 1907 to 1919 he worked as an editor for the “ Reussische Tribüne ” and from 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Reussian state parliament . In Gera he gave workers' education courses and worked towards the fact that the mass of Gera social democrats joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In November 1918 he was a member of a workers 'and soldiers' council in Gera and participated in the suppression of the Kapp Putsch in March 1920 , whereby the anti-republican military suffered the defeat at Zickra . From 1922 to 1924 Drechsler was a district administrator with the mandate of the USPD and was then on hold. In this function, he had people arrested on the way to Munich in November 1923 who wanted to take part in the Hitler putsch . In 1929 he became an alderman for the city of Gera.

Already in the Thuringian "Nazi era Frick " he was removed from his office in 1932 and taken into " protective custody " in 1933 and placed under police supervision. He was arrested again in August 1944 during the " Aktion grid " and was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp until liberation by the 3rd US Army . Here he was accepted into the KPD and from 1945 to 1946 was again district administrator with the mandate of the KPD.

Drechsler was married. His son Erich Drechsler was a painter, a neurologist and director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Stadtroda .

Publications

  • The mortgage debt of 400 peasant inherited goods in the Schleiz district court , Schleiz 1931
  • The German Peasants' War: Zeitbilder , Ed. Bildungsgenossenschaft Tinz, 1924
  • From the workshop of nature. Common sense. Introduction to the natural sciences , Berlin: Gutenberg Book Guild, 1930
  • Filing dust: from d. Day e. Welfare Deputies , Berlin: Verl. Anst. "Courier", 1932
  • Nickelmann: cheerful animal fables , Jena: Thüringer Verlagsanst. u. Printing house, [1925]

Honors

  • In Gera, a street was named after Hermann Drechsler during the GDR era. Today known to many through the seat of the tax office.

literature

  • Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X .
  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 544

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 279.
  2. ↑ http://www.archive-in-thueringen.de/index.php?major=archiv&action=detail&object=Stock&id=21997 Query May 18, 2011
  3. ↑ DNB 574686495
personal data
SURNAME Wood turner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, local politician (USPD / KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottendorf
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1951
Place of death Gera