Karl Gutjahr (politician)

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Karl Gutjahr (born November 13, 1894 in Lützen , † December 2, 1971 in Rostock ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ).

Life

Gutjahr attended elementary and vocational school. He did an apprenticeship as a cook and waiter and worked in the profession he had learned. From 1913 to 1918 he was a member of the Foreign Legion and was interned from 1918 to 1920. After returning to Germany, he was a stripping worker in Zeitz . In 1921 he became a works council. From 1928 to 1933 he was District Secretary of the KPD for the Halle-Saalkreis and a member of the KPD's Halle-Merseburg secretariat.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he made illegal party work and was an instructor in Hamburg. There he was arrested on July 25, 1933 in Fuhlsbüttel and sentenced by the People's Court to two years in prison, which he served in the Tegel prison. He was then held in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until April 25, 1939 . After his release, he worked as a stone carrier in Zeitz and served in the Wehrmacht from 1942 to 1943.

In 1945 he became instructor of the central board of IG Bergbau and in 1946 chief director of mining of the AG fuel industry "Maslo" Kombinat Prossen. In 1948/49 he was the head of the mass agitation department and member of the secretariat of the SED regional association of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1950 he studied at the state party school and on January 1, 1951 became the main director of the VEB Mansfeld Kombinat "Wilhelm Pieck". In 1957 he retired. At times he was also chairman of the "Standing Committee of the All-German Workers' Conferences" in Rostock.

politics

In August 1923 he became a member of the KPD. From 1924 to 1929 he was a member of the magistrate of Zeitz and was a city councilor there from 1924. In 1927 he became political secretary of the KPD in Zeitz and a member of the Halle-Merseburg district management. In 1929 he was a participant in the 12th Reich Party Congress of the KPD. From 1929 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony . This elected him in January 1930 to the Prussian State Council . He was a member of the State Council until April 1933. After the forced unification in 1946 he became a member of the SED.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 57.