Josef Staimer

Josef Staimer (born October 19, 1871 in Kay near Straubing ; † November 30, 1941 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp ) was a German union chairman and police chief in Munich .

Career

Josef Staimer learned the trade of belt maker and worked as a warehouse worker. In 1905 he became an employee of the factory workers' association and trade union secretary in Munich. From 1894 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In the First World War he did military service. In 1917 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD).

From November 1918 to April 1919 he was police chief of Munich under the government of Kurt Eisner . During the Lotter putsch , he was arrested by sailors on February 19, 1919. Then he switched to the border guard until it was taken over by the Reichswehr .

At the end of 1920 he joined the KPD with the left-wing USPD and was district manager for Northern Bavaria from June 1921 to June 1922 . From October 1922 to 1933 he was in Nuremberg full-time president of the union of the heater and machinists a ADGB -Gewerkschaft. He had resigned from the KPD.

In 1933 Josef Staimer was arrested and spent several years in “ protective custody ”, including in the Dachau concentration camp . He died on November 30, 1941 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp.

Richard Staimer was his son.

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Staimer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German trade union chairman and police president of Munich
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kay at Straubing
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1941
Place of death	Flossenbürg concentration camp

[1] Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).