Karl Zöllig

Karl Zöllig (born December 12, 1880 in Gustorf ; † April 3, 1955 in Ratingen ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

Zöllig was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) until 1922 and joined the SPD in 1922 , where he belonged to the left wing of the party and voted against the military policy of the party leadership at the 1929 Magdeburg Congress. Until 1932 he was then district secretary of the party. He then moved to the SAPD and was elected to the party's extended executive committee in 1932. Here he was part of the anti-Leninist wing around Anna Siemsen and in 1932, in a conflict with the proleninist wing, spoke out in favor of accepting a split in the party if necessary. He also became State Secretary of the SAPD in Berlin . From 1930 to April 1933 he was a member of the Prussian State Council .

After the beginning of the National Socialist rule he was imprisoned and was unemployed until 1934. He then went into business for himself as a bread trader.

After the end of the Second World War , Zöllig became a member of the SPD again and belonged to the district executive committee of the SPD Niederrhein . From 1946 to 1947 he was a member of the two terms of office of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1949 he ran unsuccessfully on the state list of the SPD for the first German Bundestag .

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 187.

Web links

• Karl Zöllig at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• SAP Party Congress 1932 (in: Chronicle of Social Democracy)
• Inch, Karl . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Xylander to Zywietz] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1421 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 111 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).