Hermann Schulze (politician, 1897)
Hermann Schulze (born April 4, 1897 in Gera-Untermhaus ; † September 11, 1967 in Gera ) was a German local politician and party functionary ( SPD ) and member of the state parliament ( KPD / KPO ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and trustee .
Life
Schulze came from a working class family . His father was a weaver and union activist . As a child he was a member of a union workers' gymnastics association . In 1911 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and in 1916 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After attending elementary school he had the profession of locksmith learned that he in a Reichsbahn repair workshop (RAW) and at the company Carl Zeiss AG exercised. In 1916 he took part in the Easter Conference of the SPD and in 1919 in the founding conference of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In Gera he was one of the founders of the KPD local group. In 1920 he took part in an action committee to resist the Kapp Putsch and was one of the fighters in the clashes in Zickra near Berga an der Elster . Schulze performed party functions in both the Red Aid (RH) and the Red Front Fighters Association (RFB) as well as in the sub-district leadership. From 1924 to 1929 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament . Since 1925 he had been a member of the KPD district management and preferred a trade union course. This brought him in 1928 the exclusion from the party, so that he converted to the Communist Party (opposition) .
After the handover of power to the NSDAP , he was briefly taken into “ protective custody ”, but then continued to participate in the illegal work of the Gera resistance group Wetzel-Gredinger-Frister , a group of left-wing social democrats . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and used to guard prisoners of war . He made himself suspicious of collaboration with the enemy and was arrested, but released again.
When the Nazi regime was eliminated, Schulze registered with the re-established SPD in 1945 and became mayor and city councilor in Untermhaus. In 1946 he took part in the unification party conference in Gotha . Since 1948 he was initially a trustee and later an employee in a dyeing company. In 1949 the SED issued him a stern reprimand and expelled him from the party in 1950 with the charge that he had "covered the Nazis". His pension for persecuted as a person persecuted by the Nazi regime (VdN) was revoked, but has been granted again since 1953.
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. 566, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7
- 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
- ↑ http://www.ottokar-luban--rosa-luxemburg-forschung.de/Downloads/Ref-Jena-Luban%20Endfassung_innen.pdf Query 9 June 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulze, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German state parliament member (SPD / KPO / SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1967 |
| Place of death | Gera |