Karl Seeser

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Karl Seeser (born on July 5, 1906 in Bayreuth , died on December 2, 1981 there ) was a German editor , functionary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), resistance fighter , political prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp and after the Second World War a member of the Bayreuth City Council . He is one of the defining personalities of Bayreuth's post-war urban policy .

Life

Seeser grew up as the second son of a social democratic working class family in the Bayreuth districts of Sankt Georgen and Hammerstatt . His father was the union secretary and later 2nd mayor Adam Seeser . After attending elementary and junior high school Karl Sesser made an apprenticeship and then worked as a textile merchant.

In 1922 Seeser joined the SPD, the trade union and the workers' sports movement . In 1928 he became an editor at the social democratic daily Fränkische Volkstribüne . In election campaigns he appeared as a meeting speaker for his party. He married Margarete Ollert on March 19, 1932, and the children Karl jun. and Margot.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , his father and older brother Otto were taken into " protective custody " in early March 1933 and imprisoned for several weeks in the Sankt Georgen prison. Karl Seeser, who was initially able to evade access by the police, was caught on April 18, 1933 while on a trip to see foreign party officials. With Friedrich Puchta , member of the Reichstag , Claus Pittroff , member of the state parliament, and Edmund Hacke, member of the city council, he was first taken to the Sankt Georgen prison and then to the Dachau concentration camp on April 24th . He stayed in the concentration camp until August 31 of that year, and recorded his impressions in the report “A Summer in Dachau”.

Seeser was unable to take up his post as the city councilor elected in the 1933 city ​​council elections. He and Edmund Hacke had to sign an official paper in the concentration camp and confirm that they had been invited to the founding meeting in accordance with the statutes, but had been prevented from taking part by “force majeure”. After his release from the concentration camp, Seeser was placed under police supervision in Bayreuth. He was not assigned a job by the employment office. After a short time he had to give up a job as a temporary employee at the local consumer cooperative under pressure from the National Socialists, but from the beginning of June 1935 to September 1937 he worked there again. On suspicion of preparing for high treason , he was arrested again that month, together with Oswald Merz and members of the former Bayreuth workers' association. The Gestapo held him in the Nuremberg Police Prison until December 2, 1937 . After his release he was charged with attempting to re-form parties, but the proceedings were dropped in 1938 as part of an amnesty .

Since he was refused to work in his hometown, Seeser went to Aschaffenburg with his family . There he again worked for the consumer cooperative. Because of his social democratic, anti-fascist sentiments, he was still under the surveillance of the Gestapo. In 1940 he became a conscientious convened and was last in Finland used where it until Sergeant rise. On the retreat via Norway he was first taken prisoner by the British and then by the French . In 1946 he was able to return to Bayreuth.

In the post-war period Karl Seeser was chairman - as well as a member of the party committee and local administration - of the Bayreuth local association of the SPD. In May 1948 he was elected to the city council and confirmed in office in the local elections in 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1966. From 1953 until his departure on June 30, 1972, he was chairman of the SPD city council group.

Honors

For your services Seeser received the Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Bayreuth in 1965 and the Medal of Honor of the Upper Franconia District in 1972 . Also in 1972 he became an honorary citizen of the city. In 1998 a street in Bayreuth was named Karl-Seeser-Weg .

Web links

  • Karl Seeser at gedaechtnisbuch.org, with excerpts from his report "A Summer in Dachau"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pink and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from A-Z . C. u. C. Rabenstein, Bayreuth 2009, ISBN 978-3-928683-44-9 , pp. 70 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Mayer : The Bauverein makes city history in: 90 Years Bauverein Bayreuth, p. 33.
  3. ^ Rainer Trübsbach : History of the City of Bayreuth . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , p. 294 .
  4. ^ Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth , p. 336.
personal data
SURNAME Seeser, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, politician (SPD) and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1981
Place of death Bayreuth