Karl Kautzsch

Carl Wilhelm Kautzsch (born May 17, 1887 in Lengenfeld (Vogtland) , † April 30, 1978 in Freilassing ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD , SED ) and from 1922 to 1933 a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Kautzsch initially worked in Zwickau as a union official and later as an editor. On June 28, 1922, he moved in for the USPD as a successor in the Saxon state parliament , to which he was a member until the cancellation of the mandates of the SPD members on June 23, 1933. From June 1929 to May 1933 he was secretary there. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Kautzsch was arrested and locked in the protective custody camp at Schloss Osterstein . At this time he also lost his mandate as a city councilor in Zwickau. In October 1933 Kautzsch was arrested again and sent to the Sonnenburg concentration camp .

In 1945 Kautzsch was a co-founder of the SPD in the Zwickau district. He was used by the US occupation forces as a district administrator. The forced merger of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , he was critical of. In 1950 he was finally dismissed as district administrator and the following year he was expelled from the SED.

Web links

Karl Kautzsch's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

Individual evidence

↑ Death register of the registry office Freilassing No. 68/1978.
↑ Kautzsch, Karl. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on November 4, 2016 . The membership in the Saxon People's Chamber 1919/20, which is also stated in the overview for this source, cannot be proven in the minutes.
↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL The End of the Parliaments 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 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 79.
^ Hans Käseberg: Pioneers for Zwickau. History of Social Democracy 1863 to 1989 (Wehnerwerk series, Volume 3), Herbert-und-Geta-Wehner-Stiftung, Dresden 2008, p. 42.
↑ Schumacher: MdL, p. 79.
^ Hans Käseberg: Pioneers for Zwickau. History of Social Democracy 1863 to 1989 (Wehnerwerk series, Volume 3), Herbert-und-Geta-Wehner-Stiftung, Dresden 2008, p. 74.

personal data
SURNAME	Kautzsch, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kautzsch, Carl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politicians (USPD, SPD, SED) and MdL Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lengenfeld (Vogtland)
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1978
Place of death	Freilassing

[1] Death register of the registry office Freilassing No. 68/1978.

[2] Kautzsch, Karl. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on November 4, 2016 . The membership in the Saxon People's Chamber 1919/20, which is also stated in the overview for this source, cannot be proven in the minutes.

[3] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL The End of the Parliaments 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 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 79.

[4] Hans Käseberg: Pioneers for Zwickau. History of Social Democracy 1863 to 1989 (Wehnerwerk series, Volume 3), Herbert-und-Geta-Wehner-Stiftung, Dresden 2008, p. 42.

[5] Schumacher: MdL, p. 79.

[6] Hans Käseberg: Pioneers for Zwickau. History of Social Democracy 1863 to 1989 (Wehnerwerk series, Volume 3), Herbert-und-Geta-Wehner-Stiftung, Dresden 2008, p. 74.