Hugo Meister
Hugo Meister (born February 27, 1901 in Langensalza ; † November 13, 1956 in Gotha ) was a German politician ( KPD ).
Life
He grew up in an orphanage and made 1915–1916 a carpenter's apprenticeship, which he broke off because of an eye disease. In 1926 he became a transport worker in the Gotha Reichsbahn repair shop, where he became a member of the works council .
Political career
In 1918 he became a member of the USPD and the Free Socialist Youth , when the USPD split up in 1919, he joined the KPD. In 1925 he became a member of the sub-district management in Gotha. 1927–1931 he was political director of the Gotha University Library of the KPD and a member of the extended district management in Thuringia. 1928–1932 also member of the city council of the KPD parliamentary group in Gotha. In 1932 he was dismissed from the Reichsbahn service as the works council chairman at RAW Gotha and head of the RGO (railway) in Thuringia for leading a protest strike against Papen's emergency ordinances.
After the seizure of power in 1933 he was arrested for "illegal activity" and was imprisoned in the Gräfentonna prison until 1935 . He was then a member of the resistance group around Theodor Neubauer and arrested again in 1944 and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp by the GeStaPo , where he remained until the liberation by the Americans. When the Americans marched in on May 3, 1945, he was with Hermann Henselmann , Günther Gottschalk and Oskar Gründler a member of the anti-fascist committee in his hometown Gotha. After the city was taken over by the Soviet military administration in Germany in July 1945, he became the second mayor of the city in November 1945 and remained so until 1951. In addition, from 1949 he attended the administration academy in Forst-Zinna. In early 1951 to March 31, 1951 he was director of the municipal economic enterprise. In July 1951 he was expelled from the SED .
Appreciations
In August 2014, a stumbling block was laid in front of his former home in Gotha, Schützenallee 26 .
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- Walter A. Schmidt: So that Germany might live. Kongreß Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 385
- G. Glondajewski / Schumann: The Neubauer-Poser Group , Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1957
- Chronicle of the History of the German Labor Movement Part II, 1966, p. 438
- BArch NY 4047/1: Personal documents from Hugo Meister
- Federal Archives
- Claudia Klinger: Five new stumbling blocks laid in Gotha, Thüringer Allgemeine Gotha, August 5, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langensalza |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1956 |
| Place of death | Gotha |