Joseph Götz (politician)

This article deals with the German politician Joseph Götz (1895–1933). For the Austrian politician (1823–1894) see Josef Götz (Politiker) .

Joseph Götz (born November 15, 1895 in Munich ; † May 9, 1933 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Bavarian politician of the KPD and resistance fighter against the war as one of the revolutionary sailors of 1917.

Life

After finishing school, Joseph Götz did an apprenticeship as a locksmith. In 1914 he was forcibly recruited for military service. From 1914 to 1917 he was employed as a stoker in the Imperial Navy . In 1917 he played a leading role in the sailors' uprising on the Nassau . On December 6, 1917, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison for this. His release from prison came much earlier as a result of the November Revolution of 1918.

Götz returned to Munich, joined the Spartakusbund and thus became a founding member of the KPD. He also became a member of a sailor company that campaigned for the Soviet Republic . In May 1919 he was arrested again during a demonstration against the shooting of communists in Nuremberg . After his release he worked as a locksmith until 1922 and then unemployed for a while. In 1923 he became the full-time party secretary of the KPD for trade union issues in the district leadership of Southern Bavaria. He was taken into protective custody from October 1923 to April 1924 and sentenced to six months in prison in July 1924.

After his release from prison, he became head of the organization of the KPD South Bavaria in mid-1924. In order to protect him from further stalking by the Bavarian Political Police, he became a candidate for the Reichstag in 1924 and a candidate for election to the Bavarian State Parliament , to which he belonged in the third electoral period from 1924 to 1926. On 16 February 1925 he was arrested despite his deputies status on a southern German KPD conference and for operation of the banned Communist Party in Bavaria remand taken. Despite his immunity as a member of the state parliament, he remained imprisoned in Munich-Stadelheim until December 1925 . In January 1926, a trial before the Reichsgericht in Leipzig followed , in which he was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for working for the KPD. In June 1926 his immunity was lifted by the Bavarian state parliament and he fled to Moscow . In January 1927, Götz announced his resignation from his state parliament mandate from Moscow. In 1928 he returned to Germany after an amnesty and was again head of the organization of the KPD-Südbayern .

In March 1933 Götz was arrested by the Bavarian State Police for resisting National Socialism and interned in the Dachau concentration camp. After several weeks of torture by the SS Götz was - after the successful flight of Hans Beimler - in the detention room of the Dachau concentration camp shot .

literature

• Götz, Joseph . 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 .
• Hartmut Mehringer : The KPD in Bavaria 1919-1945. Prehistory, Persecution, and Resistance. In: Martin Broszat , Hartmut Mehringer (eds.): Bavaria in the Nazi era V. The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance. Munich, Vienna 1983, pp. 23, 25–26, 78, 91 and 93.
• Martin Schumacher (Ed.): M. d. L. The end of the parliaments in 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. Düsseldorf 1995, No. 383.

Web links

• Joseph Götz in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History