Hermann Kellermann (politician)

Hermann Kellermann (born August 14, 1887 in Gehofen ; † April 22, 1954 in Erfurt ) was a German party functionary ( SPD / USPD / KPD / SED ), participant in the November Revolution , Prussian state parliament member , Raiffeisen director and operations manager of a state- owned company ( VEB) in Erfurt.

Life

Kellermann came from a working class family . His father was a miner . After attending primary school, he learned the professions of blacksmith and locksmith . In 1906 he joined the union . When he returned from the “ Walz ” in 1909 , he worked as a journeyman in Erfurt. In 1915 he became the military service in World War I convened, but was in 1916 back to work in his company conscripted . In 1917 he was one of the Erfurt co-founders of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1919 he took part in the fighting of the November Revolution in Berlin . Then he returned to Erfurt and tried unsuccessfully to build a " Red Army " in Thuringia. After joining the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he became political director of the KPD sub-district in Erfurt in 1920. In 1924 he became a member of the Prussian state parliament with his party's mandate. In 1925 he took over the management of the Central Committee's agriculture department , which he gave up again in 1928. In Saxony , among other places , he held full-time party functions until 1933.

After power was transferred to the NSDAP in 1933, he was imprisoned . Another time he was 1935-1939 in prison , u. a. in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After his release he worked as a locksmith.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated in 1945, Kellermann became managing director of the Association of Raiffeisen Cooperatives from June of that year , but was dismissed by the Soviet military administration in Thuringia (SMATh) in 1947 because of a lack of consistency in punishing unfulfilled delivery obligations and therefore arrested. After his release he was operations manager of the VEB pump factory in Erfurt from February 1948.

See also

→ List of members of the state parliament (Free State of Prussia) (2nd electoral period)

literature

• 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. 557
• Kellermann, Hermann . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .