Hermann Schubert (politician)

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Hermann Schubert (born January 26, 1886 in Lengefeld in the Ore Mountains , † March 22, 1938 in the Soviet Union ) (code name Max Richter) was a German politician (KPD).

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Schubert was the son of a worker. He attended elementary school . He then worked as a miner and metal worker. In 1907 or 1912 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1917 he moved to the USPD . In 1920 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the early 1920s he was sent to Moscow to visit the International Lenin School .

In May 1924 , Schubert was elected to the Reichstag as his party's candidate for constituency 12 (Thuringia) . In July of the same year he resigned his seat in the Reichstag and moved to the Prussian state parliament , of which he was a member until 1933. In addition, Schubert was at times party secretary in Hamburg , union secretary and Polleiter (head of the politics department) in the district leadership of the KPD in the Hamburg-Wasserkante district and since 1932 a member of the KPD's political bureau . As a trade unionist, he was a member of various works councils.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Schubert initially worked for a few months in the illegal communist underground movement in Germany. For security reasons, Schubert was withdrawn to Paris via Prague and the Saar area in autumn 1933 . In December 1934 he went to the Soviet Union with the rest of the leadership of the KPD in exile . There he stood as a representative of the left wing, later marginalized as "sectarian", of the KPD in opposition to Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck . Until August 1935 Schubert was a representative of the KPD on the executive committee of the Communist International . After the VII. World Congress he left the Central Committee and was deported to a position in the Red Aid . There he was arrested on May 15, 1937 in the course of the Stalinist purges (Tschistka), sentenced to death on March 22, 1938 and shot.

In May 1938 he was posthumously stripped of his German citizenship by the Nazi regime.

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  1. ^ Alfred Kantorowicz: Night Books. Records in the French Expil 1935 to 1939 , 1995, p. 122.
  2. ^ Association of Socialist Workers: The end of the GDR. A Political Autopsy , 1992, p. 32.
  3. ↑ a b Herrmann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 138-139 ( online [accessed August 9, 2011]).
  4. ↑ Lone wolf among wolves. Fritjof Meyer on the intrigues of the communist Herbert Wehner in exile in Moscow in Der Spiegel 13/1993, pp. 188–192.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Max (alias)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengefeld , Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1938
Place of death Soviet Union