Karl Meier (politician, 1902)

Karl Meier (born July 19, 1902 in Buchholz , † December 4, 1989 in Stadthagen ) was a German politician (KPD).

Live and act

Meier attended elementary school from 1908 to 1916 . Then he attended the advanced training school in Heeßen . He then worked as a telegraph worker at the Deutsche Reichspost and as a worker at the state shipyard in Minden. In 1918 he became a member of the union.

In 1920 Meier joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1921 he switched to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1928 Meier, who had been married since 1922, became a member of the works council at the State Shipyard in Minden. From 1931 to 1933 Meier was a member of the state parliament of Schaumburg-Lippe .

In the Reichstag elections of November 1932 , Meier was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the KPD for constituency 16 (South Hanover-Braunschweig), to which he belonged until March 1933.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Meier was initially able to go into hiding, was arrested on April 21, 1933 and, with a brief interruption, held until December 28, 1934 in the concentration camps Moringen , Oranienburg , Esterwegen and Lichtenburg . After his release from prison, Meier found employment in April 1936, later as a telecommunications fitter. In August 1944 he was temporarily arrested again in the course of the " Operation Grid ".

In November 1989, a few weeks before his death, Meier was, alongside Helene Fredrich , Wilhelm Heerde and Josef Felder, one of four former members of the Reichstag from the Weimar Republic who saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.

literature

Meier, Karl . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Karl Meier in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 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. 392.

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buchholz
DATE OF DEATH	4th December 1989
Place of death	Stadthagen

[MdR-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. 392.