Josef Böhm (politician, 1887)

Josef Böhm (born March 19, 1887 in Vienna , † October 13, 1954 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

biography

education and profession

Böhm, originally an Austrian citizen, was the son of a baker in Vienna. He attended the public school in Vienna and, after the death of his parents, in Graz , where he lived with his uncle. From 1900 he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Eger and after completing it in 1903 went on a journey.

From 1904 he lived in Bremen, where he initially worked for smaller carpenters and later in the furniture factory J. H. Schäfer & Co. In 1915 he was called up for military service in the First World War, in which he was taken prisoner by Russia in 1916 after being seriously wounded. When he was released from captivity after the beginning of the October Revolution , he was elected chairman of the central German soldiers' council in Moscow . After his return to Bremen in August 1919, he worked again at JH Schäfer & Co. In November 1922, he received German citizenship.

After working for the SPD from 1945 to 1949, he then worked as a price auditor in the Bremen economic authorities. He was killed in a car accident in 1954.

politics

Böhm joined the SPD in 1905 and was a co-founder of the Socialist Workers' Youth in 1908. From 1908 to 1915 he served as a member of the board of the party in the Bremen district and the branch of the woodworkers' association and the union cartel in Bremen.

He joined the First World War, the USPD on. When the USPD rejoined the SPD in 1922, Böhm went along with it. From 1920 he worked as USPD party secretary and from 1922 to 1933 in the same function for the SPD .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " , Böhm succeeded in burning the subscriber files of the Bremer Volkszeitung and the membership files of the SPD local association in good time before the office of the Bremen SPD was searched . He also instructed the local cashiers to destroy all documents in order to prevent the persecution of many party members by the new rulers.

He was arrested on May 12, 1933 with the entire Bremen SPD executive committee (including Wilhelm Kaisen ) and held in the Ochtumsand concentration camp until October 14, 1933. After his release he was initially unemployed, but then got a job again with J. H. Schäfer & Co. On August 22, 1944, he was arrested again and interned in the Farge labor education camp until September 4, 1944 .

After the Second World War , he took part in the reconstruction of the SPD in Bremen, of which he was a member of the state executive from 1949. From 1945 to 1949 he was again employed by the SPD. He was the licensee and editor of the new party newspaper Bremer Volksstimme .

Böhm belonged to the citizens of Bremen from 1923 to 1933 and again in 1946/47 and from 1951 to 1954 (†) . From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the Parliamentary Council of the State Council of the American Occupation Area .

Honors

The Josef-Böhm-Straße in Bremen - Obervieland was named in 1964 after him.

Web links

• Bohm, Josef . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 126 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

swell

• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT-Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
• Monika Porsch: Bremen Street Lexicon. Complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. A chronicle. Bremen 1951, pp. 24, 37.
2. ^ Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. A chronicle. Bremen 1951, p. 263.