Hugo Wenzel

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Hugo Hermann Wenzel (born August 23, 1891 in Bojanowo ; † January 24, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Hugo Hermann Wenzel was born as the son of the Catholic steam mill worker Reinhold Wenzel and his wife Bertha Wenzel nee Schwarz. Wenzel learned the trade of a blacksmith and then went on a hike . In 1908 Wenzel joined the SPD . In October 1913 he was drafted into the military. During the First World War he served as a gunner . At the beginning of 1918 Wenzel deserted and was a member of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council and the Workers' Armed Forces in Diedenhofen during the November Revolution . Wenzel had already become a member of the Spartacus group during the war and joined the USPD in 1917 .

At the beginning of 1919 Wenzel moved to Mecklenburg and joined the KPD in Wismar . He quickly became one of the leading functionaries of the KPD in Mecklenburg. From March 1919 he was party secretary. In March 1921 he was elected to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1924 he became organ leader of the KPD district of Mecklenburg. In February 1924 he was re-elected to the state parliament and chairman of the nine-member communist parliamentary group. In the state elections in June 1926, the KPD recorded a significant loss of votes. In addition to Wenzel, only two other Communist MPs - Alfred Buhler and Hans Warnke - were elected to the state parliament. By abstaining from voting, they enabled an SPD-led coalition government under Paul Schröder and were therefore accused by the KPD Central Committee of "opportunistic derailment".

After the state parliament was dissolved in the spring of 1927, Wenzel lost his immunity and faced a long prison sentence. He was replaced as district secretary and went to the Soviet Union . After a two-month stay in a sanatorium, he attended the International Lenin School in Moscow . In October 1928 he returned to Germany and became editor-in-chief of the “Volksechos”, a head page of the “ Red Flag ” for the province of Brandenburg . In March 1930, the Leipzig Imperial Court sentenced him to one year and three months of imprisonment. After his release from Gollnow Fortress in the summer of 1931, Wenzel returned to work as an editor.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he moved to Berlin in February 1933 to go into hiding. Wenzel is said to have made his apartment available to employees of the AM apparatus of the KPD under Wilhelm Bahnik , to whom he was related. In July 1933, Wenzel was arrested and imprisoned in Plötzensee prison, in Brandenburg (Havel) concentration camp and in Alt-Moabit remand prison. In May 1934 he was unexpectedly dismissed for "lack of evidence". Wenzel then worked at the Siemens-Schuckert works in Berlin. When the Second World War broke out , Wenzel was arrested again and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Again he was investigated because of his connections to the AM apparatus of the KPD. Wenzel, who suffered from severe pulmonary tuberculosis , died in a concentration camp on January 24, 1940.

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  1. ↑ Quoted from Bojanowo registry office: Bojanowo registry office 1891 , accessed on June 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzel, Hugo Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bojanowo
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1940
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp