Johann Friedolf ​​Wahlgreen

Johann Friedolf ​​Wahlgren (born October 26, 1855 in Habo , Sweden ; † November 15, 1941 in Geesthacht ) also Johann Wahlgreen or Johann Wahlgren was a German socialist politician and trade unionist of Swedish descent.

Wahlgren, who came from a poor family, began an apprenticeship as a ship carpenter in Gothenburg and worked in a sugar factory after dropping out of training. At the age of 18 he emigrated to Germany, where he settled in Geesthacht and initially found work in a munitions factory; after being released for political reasons, he was a. worked as coal carriers and farm laborers. In 1886, in Geesthacht, he founded the first local group of the Socialist Workers' Party , which was illegal on the basis of the Socialist Law , from which the local SPD emerged in 1890 , which electoral green presided over for a long time. Wahlgreen was also in the factory workers' association (FAV), the union of unskilled workers and represented its Geesthacht local association at union days.

During the First World War , Wahlgreen, who had now enforced his naturalization after a long period of statelessness, lost two sons. After the November Revolution he became chairman of the local cartel of the ADGB and, after the suppression of the Kapp Putsch, joined the USPD , a year later the KPD , for which he was elected to the city council and council of Geesthacht in 1924. In 1927 Wahlgreen was also elected to the Hamburg citizenship (Geesthacht belonged to Hamburg until 1937), whose constituent meetings he chaired in 1931 and 1932 as senior president . Unlike August Ziehl and the majority of the KPD in Geesthacht, Wahlgreen did not join the KPO even after the split in the local party organization in August 1931 , but remained in the KPD.

The Nazi opponent Wahlgreen escaped arrest after the NSDAP came to power in 1933, presumably due to his old age, and died in Geesthacht in 1941 at the age of 86.

literature

• Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, pp. 344 and 352.
• Wahlgreen, Johann Friedolf . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945. 2., revised. and strong exp. Edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .