Karl Tiedt

Karl Tiedt (born June 23, 1881 in Rostock , † November 18, 1938 in Berlin-Tiergarten ) was a communist politician and sex reformer .

Tiedt, who came from a middle-class family, attended high school and joined the SPD at the age of 18 . Seriously wounded during the First World War , he radicalized himself and joined the USPD in 1917 . In 1919 he founded the International Association of War Disabled and Physically Disabled People , which was later renamed the International Association of Victims of War and Labor , and became its first chairman and editor of its newspaper. In 1920 he joined the KPD with the USPD majority , in which he belonged to the left wing.

In 1925 Tiedt moved up to the Reichstag for the deceased Emil Eichhorn . In the same year he began to publish the sexual reform magazine Die Ehelosen , for this reason (since the party leadership believed that the magazine complied with the criminal offense of pimping ) and because he belonged to the left opposition to the course of the Thälmann leadership , he became a member in August Excluded from the party in 1926 and joined the parliamentary group of Left Communists . He criticized the KPD as “opponents of free moral views”.

In 1927, Tiedt fell out with the Left Communists and from then on acted as a non-attached member of parliament , he also lost the chairmanship of the International Association of Victims of War and the work on Hugo Gräf, who was on the KPD line, and founded an insignificant split from this association. After losing his seat in the Reichstag in 1928, Tiedt no longer played a role in politics.

literature

• Tiedt, Karl . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945. 2., revised. and strong exp. Edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Karl Tiedt in the database of members of the Reichstag