Karl Ross (politician)

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Karl Ross (born August 17, 1882 in Neubukow ; † January 13, 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a German KPD politician .

Life

The trained locksmith Ross became a member of the SPD in Lübeck and of the USPD in 1917 . He was a delegate to the 2nd Reich Councilor Congress in Berlin in 1919. In 1920 he turned to the Communist Party of Germany and from 1921 to 1929 was a member of the KPD in the Lübeck citizenship , one of the smaller of the German state parliaments, for three legislative periods .

Plaque

When the citizenship election on February 10, 1924 on March 3, 1924, the newly elected citizens elected their new presidium , Johannes Hefti was elected as the second deputy of the spokesman in place of Erich Klann . Egon Nickel , leader of the communist faction, criticized this and, as a consequence , expressed mistrust for his party of the citizens .

In the election on November 14, 1926, the number of seats halved, but the party again became the third largest parliamentary group. At the first meeting of the new citizenship on December 6, 1926, Karl Roß was elected to the Presidium as the second deputy spokesman .

Ross lived at Wasserweg 2 in the St. Jürgen district and was first listed in the Lübeck address book in 1925. The waterway led to Wakenitz since 1869 . His business grew and was expanded as a workshop , gas station and boat rental . For this he acquired the adjoining buildings number 4 and 4a, as well as the house number 6, which was built later. When he was arrested by the National Socialists, the company ceased to exist in 1944, which at that time was only a boat rental company.

After the Second World War , the business of the person who died in 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp as a result of the conditions of imprisonment revived. The path was renamed Karl-Ross-Weg in the address book of 1951 . A stumbling block in front of house number 2 has been a reminder of his fate since 2011 .

The tombstone of Karl Ross is in the Vorwerker Friedhof in the inner courtyard of the memorial to the victims of war and tyranny . The memorial plaque for the victims of National Socialism at the town hall in Lübeck also bears his name.

literature

  • Handbook of the German Communists , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin

Web links

Commons : Karl Ross  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First meeting of the new citizenship. In: Lübeckische Advertisements , Volume 174, No. 54, edition of March 4, 1924. In that meeting printed there, a Mr. Roß from the KPD spoke up several times.
  2. ↑ Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1926/27, No. 6, edition of December 12, 1926, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ross, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubukow
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1945
Place of death Neuengamme concentration camp