Joseph Koering

Joseph Koering (also Josef Koering ; born September 8, 1879 in Hembsen , † around 1933 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Koering, son of a saddler , learned the trade of saddler himself and worked in the profession. He later owned a leather goods shop in Brussels . He was a member of the SPD even before the outbreak of the First World War . After the outbreak of war he was temporarily interned in Belgium and then a soldier.

In 1917 he became a member of the USPD and in 1919 the KPD. During the November Revolution in 1918/1919 he was police chief of Berlin-Neukölln and a member of the executive committee of the Neukölln Workers 'and Soldiers' Council.

Then he was active in the socialization movement in the Ruhr area . At the mine delegates conference in Essen on March 30, 1919, he was elected to the Central Mining Council (formerly the Neunerkommission) of the newly founded General Miners Union . An indefinite general strike was also decided at the conference. On April 1, more than a third and on April 10, almost three quarters of all workers in the Ruhr mining industry went on strike.

At the second party congress of the KPD in Heidelberg (October 20-24, 1919) he was elected a substitute member of the headquarters and at the III. Party conference in Karlsruhe (February 25-26, 1920) confirmed. On the VI. Party convention, the unification party convention of the KPD and the left USPD, in December 1920 in Berlin he was then appointed to the central committee of the KPD for the Braunschweig-Lower Saxony district and then at the 7th party congress in Jena in 1921 only as a substitute member of the central committee for the Rhineland- Westphalia-South elected.

Joseph Koering died in Berlin in 1933 or shortly afterwards.

literature

Short biography

• Koering, Josef . 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 .

on his engagement in the November Revolution and in the socialization movement

• Rudolf Lindau: Revolutionary Struggles 1918-1919 . Dietz, Berlin 1960, pp. 80f.
• Erhard Lucas : March Revolution in the Ruhr Area . Volume 1: From the general strike against the military coup to the armed workers' uprising March – April 1920 . März Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 83 and 348.
• Heinrich Teuber , Hellmut G. Haasis , Erhard Lucas-Busemann: For the socialization of the Ruhr mining industry . Verlag Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 64.
• Gerhard Engel (Ed.): Great Berlin workers and soldiers councils in the revolution 1918/19. Documents of the plenary meetings and the executive council. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, p. 199.