Karl Stäbler

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Karl Stäbler (born January 2, 1890 in Vaihingen near Stuttgart , † September 5, 1950 there ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Landtag of the Free People's State of Württemberg .

Life

The trained typesetter Stäbler was a member of the SPD before 1914 . During the First World War he fought as a soldier and was badly wounded.

In 1917, Stäbler switched to the USPD . He was a delegate at the split party conference in Halle (Saale) in October 1920 and converted to the KPD with the left USPD. In 1924 he became head of the KPD in Stuttgart , in May of the same year he was elected to the Württemberg state parliament, of which he was a member until 1928. He was previously a member of Vaihingen's municipal council.

In 1925, Stäbler became editor of the Süddeutsche Arbeiterzeitung in Stuttgart. From 1925 to 1928 he worked as a Gauleiter of the KPD-affiliated International Federation of Victims of War and Labor . In 1929, Stäbler was sentenced to six months in prison for embezzlement and fraud; he is said to have embezzled 5000 Reichsmarks from the tenants' association . He then withdrew from active politics.

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Individual evidence

  1. According to information from the Baden-Württemberg State Archives . According to Weber / Herbst, he died in 1960.