Johann Westphal (politician, 1886)

Johann Westphal (born September 21, 1886 in Dosenmoor ; † May 30, 1954 in East Berlin ) was a German politician of the KPD and a member of the Hamburg citizenship .

Life

Johann Westphal was the son of a country mailman and the oldest of eleven siblings. He learned the trade of a boiler maker and worked as a shipyard worker. 1907 member of the SPD , he joined the USPD during the First World War and joined the KPD in 1920 with the USPD majority. He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the first time from 1924 to 1933.

In 1924 he became the organ leader of the KPD district Wasserkante. In 1925 he was replaced, but remained a member of the district management. From 1927 he worked as an employee in the employment and welfare office. In 1930 he became head of the Kampfbund against Fascism in Hamburg and was an active KPD functionary until 1933.

On March 5, 1933, he was re-elected to the citizenry, but arrested on March 19, 1933 and was in the concentration camp until January 1934 . In June 1934 and April 1937 he was briefly imprisoned again. He was connected to the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group and was therefore arrested again in July 1944.

After the Second World War he worked again in Hamburg as a functionary for the Hamburg district leadership of the KPD and took on a mandate in the appointee and the first freely elected parliamentary term. He was also a member of the “Executive Committee of the Socialist Free Trade Union ”.

Johann Heinrich Westphal died on May 30, 1954 while attending the FDJ Germany meeting in East Berlin and was buried in Hamburg.

literature

• 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 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).

Web links

• The Socialist Free Trade Union on dearchiv.de