Johannes Stetter

Johannes Stetter (born February 1, 1885 in Wain , † November 10, 1963 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician and trade unionist.

Life

After attending primary school in Wain, Stetter trained as a carpenter in Schwendi from 1899 to 1902 . Following his journey through Baden and Switzerland , he joined the SPD and the carpenters' union in 1903 . During the First World War he was a soldier in Flanders and France . In 1917 he joined the USPD and in 1918 became its full-time party secretary. On November 4, 1918, he was a member of the board of directors of the illegal Stuttgart Workers' Council and was arrested on November 7, 1918 along with other councilors. From November 10, 1918 to July 12, 1919, Stetter was active in various committees of the workers' councils in Württemberg . In April 1919 he was a delegate from Württemberg to the second Reichsrätekongress in Berlin . In June 1920 he moved to the Württemberg state parliament as a member of the USPD , to which he belonged until the end of the legislative period in May 1924. In December 1920 he switched from the USDP to the KPD and became its Stuttgart party secretary. In 1923 he took over the role of Polleiters of the KPD in Württemberg. Stetter was arrested at the beginning of 1924 for subversive activities, but released from prison in May 1924 because of his election to the Reichstag . He was a member of the Reichstag until the new election in December 1924. From June to October 1925, Stetter was again in custody. Due to internal party conflicts, he was expelled from the KPD in 1926 and he now rejoined the SPD. His publication on the "KP swamp" weakened the personnel and organizational structure of the communists in Württemberg. Stetter worked as a carpenter in Stuttgart until 1928, before he became secretary of the Association of Community and State Workers in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933 . Stetter was arrested in April 1933 and moved back to Stuttgart after his release in September 1933. There he was again a carpenter from 1934 to 1938, then until 1945 worker in a factory in Stuttgart-Wangen. In 1945 he rejoined the SPD and took part in rebuilding the unions. From 1946 to 1959 he was a member of the City Council of Stuttgart.

His brothers David Stetter and Georg Stetter were trade unionists and politicians.

Works

• The communist swamp. My expulsion from the KPD . Stuttgart (1927)
• From the life of a proletarian . Manuscript 1961

literature

• Uwe Fuhrmann: A proletarian history of Germany: Hans (Johannes) Stetter (1885-1963) . In: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Volume III / 2013.
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 897 .
• Stetter, Johannes . In: 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 .

Web links

• Johannes Stetter in the database of members of the Reichstag