Karl Mache
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
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
- ↑ 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.
Web links
- Karl Mache in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Karl Mache biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Karl Mache biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
- Entry in Berlin's memory
personal data | |
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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 |