Hermann Liebmann

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Hermann Liebmann (born August 18, 1882 in Paunsdorf , † September 6, 1935 in Leipzig ) was a German politician ( SPD ). Imprisoned from 1933 to 1935, he died shortly after his release from the consequences of mistreatment inflicted on him by the National Socialists in the concentration camp.

Live and act

Liebmann learned the trade of a shaper and joined the SPD in 1905 after two years of military service. From 1913 to 1933 Liebmann worked as an editor for the Leipziger Volkszeitung .

Together with the majority of the Leipzig social democratic party organization, he joined the USPD in 1917 in protest against the truce policy of the Berlin party executive committee . In November 1918 he was a member of the select committee of the Leipzig Workers 'and Soldiers' Council .

From 1919 to 1933 Liebmann was a member of the Saxon state parliament, first as secretary of the USPD parliamentary group, from 1922 back to the parliamentary group of the United Social Democratic Party. At the same time he was a city councilor in Leipzig. On April 1, 1923 Liebmann became Saxon Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister under Erich Zeigner (SPD). From October 31, 1923 to January 4, 1924 he held this office under Alfred Fellisch . From 1924 to 1926 Liebmann was deputy chairman, from 1926 to 1929 chairman and 1930 to 1933 assessor of the SPD parliamentary group.

Liebmann was arrested in 1933 and was imprisoned in Hohnstein and Colditz concentration camps until 1935 . During this time he was severely abused on the orders of the Reich Governor Martin Mutschmann . When he was released he was seriously ill and died in the Israelite Hospital in Leipzig - according to the exile newspaper Neuer Vorwärts - shortly afterwards as a result of the torture. His grave is in the Leipzig-Sellerhausen cemetery.

Saxon Minister of the Interior

Liebmann directed his attention primarily to combating right-wing activities. At the beginning of 1923 he exposed the community of readers of the Saxon State Newspaper as a covert continuation of the banned German Völkisch Protection and Defense Association and had their weapons and anti-Semitic leaflets confiscated. He reported to the state parliament on the nationalist activities of the “Deutscher Herold” lodge and the German National Handicrafts Association , the German Farmers College in Hellerau and in the young farmers' casino. He also showed the connections between the Dresden Citizens' Council and the Deutschvölkische Freedom Party , and warned against right-wing bases in Vogtland, which maintained connections with the so-called Organization Escherich ("Orgesch") and the NSDAP in Bavaria. He made it his duty "to avert the dangers that such endeavors threaten the republic as far as possible." (Ministerial speech of April 17, 1923)

Honors

  • The former Kirchstrasse in Volkmarsdorf has had his name since May 1945 .
  • The Hermann Liebmann Oberschule in Leipzig bore his name until it was closed for structural reasons in 1992.
  • On June 29, 2004, the Mayor of Leipzig, Wolfgang Tiefensee, inaugurated the Hermann-Liebmann-Bridge named after him. An existing bridge at the same location had to be demolished two years earlier.

Publications

  • The policy of the General Commission. A register of sins of the central boards of the free trade unions in Germany and a guide for the future . Leipziger Buchdruckerei, Leipzig 1919.
  • Two and a half years of the USP's city council in Leipzig. Edited by Hermann Liebmann . Leipziger Buchdruckerei, Leipzig 1921.
  • Nine months of Saxon coalition politics . Leipzig (1924).

literature

  • Hermann Liebmann in memory . In: Saxon newspaper. Independent daily newspaper . Dresden, August 21, 1947.
  • Hermann Liebmann . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographisches Lexikon des Sozialismus Volume I Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH Hannover 1960, p. 198.
  • H.-J. Krusch : Liebmann, Hermann . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 298-299.
  • Mike Schmeitzner and Michael Rudloff: History of Social Democracy in the Saxon State Parliament. Dresden 1997, p. 202f.
  • Dietmar Klenke: Hermann Liebmann from the architect of the “proletarian majority” in Saxony to the “toleration” politician of the Brüning era . In: Peter Lösche (Ed.): Preserve from forgetting . Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-7678-0741-6 .
  • Helmut Arndt : Hermann Liebmann 1882–1935. A left socialist anti-fascist man of the people . In: Leipzig's New. left monthly newspaper for politics, culture and history . Leipzig 1995. ZDB -ID 1163093-0 17, p. 12.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nekrolog in the exile organ Neuer Vorwärts - Karlsbad from September 15, 1935
  2. ↑ See illustration from Hermann Liebmann's grave
  3. ↑ Information on the Hermann Liebmann Bridge
personal data
SURNAME Liebmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Paunsdorf near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1935
Place of death Leipzig