Josef Siegnoth

Josef Siegnoth (born March 10, 1886 in Neustadt / Silesia ; † June 6, 1964 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a member of the Saxon state parliament for the SPD from 1926 to 1933 . On May 26, 1933, he resigned from his mandate. In the same month he was taken into " protective custody ". Professionally he was u. a. active as chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation in Chemnitz and as head of the employment office in Chemnitz. Siegnoth was a member of the Gauvorstand Sachsen of the Reichsbanner . After 1945 he was one of the "activists of the first hour" in the reconstruction in Chemnitz.

Web links

Josef Siegnoth . In: Saxon Biography . Published by the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore
Biography of Josef Siegnoth . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

Individual evidence

↑ Siegnoth, Josef. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on October 24, 2016 .
↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL The End of the Parliaments 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism: Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 152.
^ Carsten Voigt: Combat leagues of the labor movement. The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the Rote Frontkampfbund in Saxony 1924–1933 (= history and politics in Saxony , vol. 26). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009, ISBN 3-412-20449-8 , p. 136.
^ Jeannette Michelmann: Activists from the very beginning: the Antifa in the Soviet zone of occupation , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna - Cologne - Weimar 2002, p. 215, fn. 325.

personal data
SURNAME	Siegnoth, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon MP
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadt / Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1964
Place of death	Karl Marx City

[1] Siegnoth, Josef. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on October 24, 2016 .

[2] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL The End of the Parliaments 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism: Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 152.

[3] Carsten Voigt: Combat leagues of the labor movement. The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the Rote Frontkampfbund in Saxony 1924–1933 (= history and politics in Saxony , vol. 26). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009, ISBN 3-412-20449-8 , p. 136.

[4] Jeannette Michelmann: Activists from the very beginning: the Antifa in the Soviet zone of occupation , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna - Cologne - Weimar 2002, p. 215, fn. 325.