Karl Rost

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Karl Rost (born August 3, 1902 in Hanau , † July 28, 1950 in Offenbach am Main ) was a Hessian politician ( KPD Hessen ) and a member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

Family and work

Karl Rost was the son of the shoemaker Bernhard Rost and his wife Lucretia nee Fächer. He was married to Käthe-Maria, born Metzger, and of Protestant denomination.

Karl Rost worked as a mechanic and toolmaker in Klein-Steinheim .

politics

Karl Rost had been a member of the KPD since 1919 , and from 1928 until the end of 1931 he was the full-time secretary of the Hanau sub-district management. After confrontations with the National Socialists, he was sentenced in 1929 to six months in prison for “breach of the peace” by the Darmstadt jury. Rost was a member of the state parliament for the KPD from 1931 to 1932. However, due to a formal error, his mandate was canceled on June 19, 1932. Then he was head of the KPD in Mainz and head of sales for the KPD weekly newspaper Volksruf . From 1933 he was in the illegal resistance against National Socialism. At the end of 1933 he was arrested and severely abused by the Gestapo in Hanau and Offenbach. He remained in custody until March 1934, including in the Osthofen concentration camp . Rost was arrested again on September 22, 1944 in connection with the Gewitter campaign and was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp until January 27, 1945 .

After the end of the war, Rost was from June 1 to October 31, 1945 head of the care center for racially, religiously and politically persecuted people at the mayor of Offenbach / Main. He was also a member of the district union leadership in Offenbach. In November 1945 he became State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior in the Geiler cabinet . Due to political differences with his party, Rost left the government in June 1946 and then worked as a freelance journalist. Valentin Heckert succeeded him as State Secretary .

literature

  • Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , pp. 537-538.
  • 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. 315.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 727.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 221.
  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Rust, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL (People's State of Hesse)
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1950
Place of death Offenbach am Main