Leo Schieder

Leo Schieder (born July 16, 1909 in Nuremberg ; † February 3, 1956 in Schlamau , Zauch-Belzig district ) was a German communist politician .

Life

The businessman Schieder joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1930 . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in a special court for high treason and then placed under police supervision. Active as a salesman until 1936, between 1937 and 1945 he worked as a dispatch manager in a door factory in Andernach . In 1942/1943 he was drafted into military service.

After the end of the Second World War , Schieder became district chairman of the KPD in Mayen in 1945 . From 1946 he was employed by the French military government. In the same year he was elected Second Secretary of the KPD Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau. He also became a city council member in Andernach and a member of the Mayen district assembly. In 1946/1947 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of Rhineland-Palatinate , and from 1947 to 1951 a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag . From 1947 he was a member of the state board of Rhineland-Palatinate and district chairman in Koblenz, and from 1948 a member of the state secretariat of the KPD. From October 1952 to February 1954 Schieder was the editor in charge of the KPD newspaper Our Day .

Schieder was married to Martha Schieder (née Weinländer), the chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany in Andernach and in the Mayen district.

literature

• Klaus J. Becker: The KPD in Rhineland-Palatinate 1946–1956 . von Hase and Köhler, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-7758-1393-4 , p. 488f.