Katharina Roth

Katharina Roth (relief by Daniel Greiner , 1925)

Anna Katharina Roth , née Sehnert (born June 26, 1882 in Schaafheim , † June 3, 1967 in Darmstadt ) was a German communist politician.

Life

Katharina Roth was born as the daughter of the bricklayer Nikolaus Sehnert and his wife Anna Katharina, née Kreh. She married Jakob Roth. Katharina Roth worked as a maid until her marriage and joined the SPD in 1907 . During the First World War she joined the USPD , where she belonged to the left wing, which merged with the KPD in 1920 .

Katharina Roth, around 1915

Katharina Roth, around 1950

In the KPD, Roth belonged to the “left” wing around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow and was active in women's political work, among other things. In 1922 she replaced the resigned MP Aloys Rink in the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse and was re-elected in 1924. After the party leadership around Fischer and Maslow was dismissed in autumn 1925, she belonged to the left opposition to the new party leadership around Ernst Thälmann and was expelled from the party in May 1927.

After exercising her state parliament mandate as a non-attached member of parliament until the legislature was dissolved in November 1927, Katharina Roth joined the Lenin League in spring 1928 , but later withdrew from active politics.

literature

• Antifascist Action Alliance (Ed.): Langen - as hardly anyone knows it and some don't want to know it anymore. anti-fascist city guide (completely revised new edition), Langen, May 1997 (page 60f.)
• Marcel Bois: Communists against Hitler and Stalin. The left opposition of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1282-3 (pages 27, 220, 235, 274, 426).
• Ingrid Langer : Twelve forgotten women. The female members of the parliament of the People's State of Hesse, their political work - their everyday life - their lives. dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7638-0451-X , pp. 449-502.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 315-316.
• Adolf Mirkes / Karl Schild: Testimonials: Offenbach 1933-1945. Persecution and resistance in the city and district of Offenbach. Cologne, Röderberg im Pahl-Rügenstein-Verlag, 1988. ( ISBN 3-87682-842-2 )
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 728.
• Hans-Georg Ruppel and Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820-1933. Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-92-2316-14X , p. 221.
• Short biography in: Hermann Weber : The change of German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2. Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 264.

Web links

Commons : Katharina Roth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Roth, Katharina . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Roth, Anna Katharina. Hessian biography. (As of June 13, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).