Karl Ryssel

Karl Ryssel (born February 17, 1869 in Borna , † May 18, 1939 in Leipzig ) was a German politician (SPD; USPD).

Live and act

Ryssel attended elementary school in Borna from 1875 to 1883 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter until 1886 and went on tour for five years, from 1886 to 1891. In the 1890s Ryssel joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1904 to 1907 he was an official at the local health insurance fund. He then became party secretary of the SPD in Leipzig .

In March 1914 Ryssel became a member of the last Reichstag of the German Empire elected in 1912 , to which he belonged for almost four and a half years until the collapse of the monarchy during the November Revolution of 1918. In 1917 Ryssel left the SPD and switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), a party newly founded during the First World War , which was mainly recruited from representatives of the left wing of the SPD who were dissatisfied with the war policy of the SPD leadership.

After the war Ryssel was a member of the executive committee of the Great Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils . After that he was a member of the Saxon People's Chamber for almost a year, from 1919 to 1920 . Then Ryssel was elected to the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the Reichstag election of June 1920 as a USPD candidate for constituency 32 (Leipzig) , to which he belonged until May 1924. From October 12 to 17, 1920 Ryssel took part in the extraordinary party congress of the USPD. Around 1922 he left the USPD and returned to the SPD, whose parliamentary group he also joined.

Ryssel also served as governor in Leipzig from August 1921 to 1926 , an office in which he was exposed to numerous hostilities due to his origin and party affiliation. He then retired due to a serious illness.

literature

Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Ryssel in the catalog of the German National Library
Karl Ryssel in the database of members of the Reichstag
Karl Ryssel biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Ryssel, Karl. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on April 1, 2020 .

Individual evidence

^ Ulrich Kluge: Soldiers' Councils and Revolution. Studies on Military Policy in Germany 1918 ... , 1975, p. 81.
↑ Robert F. Wheeler: The "21 conditions" and the split of the USPD in the fall of 1920 in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 23, 1975, p. 138 ( PDF ).

personal data
SURNAME	Ryssel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD, USPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Borna
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1939
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Ulrich Kluge: Soldiers' Councils and Revolution. Studies on Military Policy in Germany 1918 ... , 1975, p. 81.

[2] Robert F. Wheeler: The "21 conditions" and the split of the USPD in the fall of 1920 in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 23, 1975, p. 138 ( PDF ).