Hugo Brömmer

Hugo August Brömmer (born March 22, 1895 in Schlotheim , † December 6, 1978 in Pößneck ) was a German politician ( KPD / SPD ). He was a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Life

Brömmer, son of a bricklayer , learned the trade of rope maker . In 1911 he joined the German Textile Workers 'Association , in 1913 he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth . From 1916 to 1918 he served as a soldier in the First World War .

Brömmer joined the SPD in 1917, then the USPD in 1919 and became local group chairman of the USPD in Schlotheim. In autumn 1920 he led the majority of the local group into the VKPD . From 1922 to 1927 he was a city councilor in Schlotheim and a member of the district council of Sondershausen . From February 1924 to February 1927 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament. Brömmer was a member of the KPD district leadership for Greater Thuringia and was responsible for local politics . In 1928 he was elected city councilor in Pößneck. In February 1929 he left the KPD because of the ultra-left course and rejoined the SPD in March 1930, for which he was a member of the Saalfeld district council until 1932 .

As a former functionary of the KPD or SPD, Brömmer was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944 as part of the " Grid Action " and was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp until December 1944 .

After the end of the war, Brömmer was party secretary of the SPD in Pößneck in 1945/46, and in April 1946 became a member of the SED and employee of the Pößneck city administration.

literature

Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic . Volume 2. Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 86.
Brömmer, Hugo August . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 151.

Individual evidence

↑ 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), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 189.

personal data
SURNAME	Brömmer, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brömmer, Hugo August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD / SPD), MdL Thuringia
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlotheim
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1978
Place of death	Poessneck

[1] 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), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 189.