Karl Schulz (politician, 1884)

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Karl Schulz , actually Friedrich Carl Schulze (born June 7, 1884 in Braunschweig ; † June 30, 1933 in Spandau ) was a German politician, first in the SPD from 1905, later as a founding member of the KPD from 1918.

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Schulz was born as Friedrich Carl Schulze in 1884 . After attending school, Schulze learned the blacksmith's trade . In 1905 he joined the SPD. From 1912 Schulze acted as a workers secretary . To deepen his knowledge, he attended the SPD party school in Berlin from 1912 to 1913 .

During the First World War , Schulz joined the Spartacus group. In 1918 he headed the Red Soldiers' Union and eventually helped found the KPD. At the founding party congress of the KPD he was elected to the organization and program committee. In the following years he was responsible for the land agitation of the KPD. He also devoted himself to building up KPD regional groups in Mecklenburg and Pomerania . In 1923 he became senior district secretary of the KPD in northern Germany.

In 1921 Schulz was elected as a candidate for the KPD in the Prussian state parliament, of which he was a member until 1924. Schulz's involvement in the preparations of parts of the KPD for a violent uprising against the Weimar state in 1923 (see German October ) meant that he had been wanted for high treason since 1923 , but remained untouched for the time being due to his parliamentary immunity . After he was not reinstated as a member of the right wing of the KPD by the party leadership in the state elections of 1924, Schulz had to flee to Moscow in 1925 in order not to succumb to persecution by the authorities after his immunity had expired. From there he traveled to China under the code name Friedrich Lienhardt as EKKI representative . After his return he worked for the Comintern's cooperative apparatus in Moscow until early summer 1928 .

After Schulz was re-elected to the Prussian state parliament in May 1928, he was able to return to Germany in June 1928 with renewed immunity. The background to his standing as a candidate was the protegation by Ernst Meyer , who valued him as a capable agitator and parliamentary speaker. In the following years he appeared primarily as secretary of the Reich Committee for Referendums, which opposed the building of the armored cruiser, which the right-wing parties were pushing. In this capacity he was able to give a radio speech on October 6, 1928.

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Schulz was not re-elected in the 1932 state elections. For this reason he traveled to Moscow on November 22nd, 1932 to prepare a new China mission for the Comintern. However, the political events in Germany prompted him to return to Germany on February 22, 1933.

Shortly after the National Socialists “seized power ”, Schulz was arrested on February 27, 1933, on the night of the Reichstag fire . After a stopover at the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz, he was sent to Spandau prison, where he died as a result of severe abuse. On July 6, 1933, Schulz was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde . His grave is located in the Pergolenweg grave complex .

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SURNAME Schulz, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Friedrich Carl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1933
Place of death Spandau