Karl Rehbein

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Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rehbein (born October 14, 1885 in Hanau ; † March 3, 1956 there ) was a German social democratic politician and trade unionist.

Life

The trained goldsmith Rehbein joined the trade union in 1902 and the SPD in 1905 , where he belonged to a local circle of party links around the doctor Dr. Wagner. During the First World War , Rehbein joined the Spartacus group, which had one of its strongholds in Hanau, and after the end of the war he became the full-time secretary of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in Hanau, a post he held until 1933. Rehbein was also a member of the city ​​council and the city council of Hanau as well as the municipal council of Kassel and the provincial council of the province of Hessen-Nassau . As a founding member of the KPD and a delegate at the unification party congress with the USPD in 1920, he tended to join the Communist Working Group (KAG) around Paul Levi during the internal party disputes over the March 1921 campaign and, although he became a supporter of the “right” wing of the party around Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer , in 1924 and in 1928 put up as a candidate and elected to the Prussian state parliament.

Karl Rehbein's grave in the main cemetery in Hanau

After the Wittorf affair in 1928, Rehbein was expelled from the KPD in December 1928 and initially joined the newly founded Communist Party Opposition (KPO); but joined the SPD in April 1929, taking with him his state parliament mandate, for which he was re-elected to the state parliament in 1932.

Registration card of Karl Rehbein as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau

After the NSDAP came to power , Rehbein resigned his state parliament mandate in May 1933 and had to live on unemployment benefits for the next few years . Rehbein was arrested in 1936 and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was held until 1940. Rehbein was arrested again after July 20, 1944 and was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp until liberation at the end of April 1945 .

After his return to Hanau, Rehbein was appointed police director of Hanau and in July 1946 elected mayor of the city of Hanau. Rehbein, who was respected across party lines, held both offices until his death in March 1956. In 1946 he was also a member of the advisory state committee for Greater Hesse .

Honors

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 .
  • Julia and Jürgen Scheuermann: Lord Mayor Karl Rehbein and 'his' school . In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, pp. 176–196.
  • Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, pp. 254f.
  • Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : Rehbein, Karl . In: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 304.
personal data
SURNAME Rehbein, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehbein, Karl Heinrich Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democratic politician and trade unionist, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1956
Place of death Hanau