Karl Mache

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Karl Mache (born December 9, 1880 in Deutsch-Lissa ; † October 19, 1944 in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp ) was a social democratic politician.

Live and act

Nothing is known about his father's occupation. After attending primary school, he himself learned a baker and confectioner and worked as a baker's assistant until 1908 . In 1900 he joined the free trade union bakers and confectioners' association and a year later the SPD. Shortly after joining the union, Mache became chairman of the local bakers' association in Wroclaw . From 1908 to 1919 he was the full-time district manager of the association in Magdeburg .

In the First World War mongering was a soldier and was wounded there. After the war he was full-time district party secretary for Central and Upper Silesia from 1919 to 1933, based in Wroclaw.

In 1919 he was temporarily a city ​​councilor in Magdeburg. After moving to Wroclaw, he was also a city councilor there from 1919 to 1933 and also deputy mayor in the early 1930s. From 1921 to 1933 Mache was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Lower Silesia . From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the Reichstag .

The night the Nazis came to power , Mache was initially imprisoned in the Dürrgoy and Lichtenburg concentration camps from March to December 1933 . Another arrest took place in August 1944 in connection with the grid action . Mache died of a heart attack in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp, according to Paul Löbe , who was also imprisoned in Groß-Rosen.

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Since 1992, one of the 96 memorial plaques in Berlin near the Reichstag has been commemorating Mache for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 381.

literature

  • Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century . Marburg 2000, p. 215.

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personal data
SURNAME Do, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH German Lissa
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1944
Place of death Groß-Rosen concentration camp