Karl Jahnke
Karl Hans Heinrich Jahnke , sometimes Kurt Jahnke (born February 3, 1898 in Hamburg ; † August 13, 1961 Hamburg) was a communist politician and trade unionist.
Life
After attending secondary school, he completed a commercial training and in 1919 joined the Free Socialist Youth (FSJ) and the KPD . Belonging to the radical left wing, he was a member of the KAPD from 1920 to 1921 . 1923 took Jahnke at the Hamburg rising in part after he briefly agitprop was -Sekretär he was in 1924 for his involvement in the uprising, and despite election to the Hamburg Parliament in October of that year to several years of imprisonment sentenced until the beginning of 1926 was amnestied.
Jahnke found a job at the German-Russian trading company in Hamburg, where he was also elected chairman of the works council. In February 1926 he physically attacked the Justice Senator Arnold Nöldeke ( DDP ) during a citizenship meeting after he had called the KPD politician Hugo Urbahns a "criminal"; after this incident, Jahnke left the state parliament. In the context of the internal party disputes in the KPD, Jahnke belonged to the “left” wing around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow and was expelled from the party at the end of 1928 and also lost his job with the German-Russian trading company . Jahnke now joined the Lenin League around Urbahns and, after its split in early 1930, joined the Trotskyist Left Opposition of the KPD (LO), of which he was temporarily a member of the Reich leadership. After his wife's trip to the Soviet Union, however, he returned to the KPD in the same year and in 1932 found a job with the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO).
After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, Jahnke was arrested and tortured several times. a. caused hearing loss. In 1945 Jahnke rejoined the KPD and was involved as a works council and in the trade union area, first in the DAG , later in the HBV , of which he was part of the Hamburg local administration.
literature
- Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 171
Web links
- Karl Jahnke in the Handbook of the German Communists
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahnke, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jahnke, Karl Hans Heinrich (full name); Jahnke, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Communist politician (KPD) MdHB and trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1961 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |