Johann Skjellerup

Johann Skjellerup (born September 20, 1877 in Haderslev , † probably around 1937 in the Soviet Union ) was a communist politician.

Life

The trained gardener moved to Bramfeld , then in Prussia , where he ran a gardening business and joined the SPD in 1896 . As an opponent of the truce policy , he joined the USPD in 1917 , where he stood on the left wing of the party, which at the end of 1920 merged with the KPD to form the (V) KPD .

In 1921 he was elected for the KPD in the constituency of Schleswig-Holstein in the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1932. In addition, Skjellerup , who belonged to the “left” wing of the party around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow, was part of the party's central committee. In 1924 he was additionally elected to the Wasserkante district leadership , in 1925 he was initially a member of the inner-party left opposition to the new party leadership around Ernst Thälmann and cooperated closely with Hugo Urbahns . Thälmann later succeeded in winning Skjellerup back to the party line, but the latter no longer played an important role in the KPD and was not nominated again as a candidate for the state parliament in 1932.

Probably at the end of 1932 Skjellerup moved to the Soviet Union, where his traces are lost. There are many indications that he was a victim of the Great Terror around 1937 , according to other sources he was still alive in 1945 and is said to have tried to return to Germany.

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• Short biography in: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 743 ( online ).