Leopold Söllner
Leopold Söllner (born April 10, 1905 in Dietldorf , Burglengenfeld district office ; † probably in the Soviet Union ) was a Bavarian politician of the KPD and an anti-fascist resistance fighter .
Life
Söllner, son of a tailor, trained as a tailor himself after graduating from elementary school . In 1920 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). In 1924 he was elected head of the KJVD sub-district of Heilbronn and later chairman of the KJVD South Bavaria. In 1926 he also became a member of the KPD and in 1928 Gau leader of the Red Young Front in southern Bavaria. He was also a member of the Union of Railway Workers in Germany , in which he also took on functions.
From the end of 1928 Söllner worked in the Reichsbahn repair shop in Munich , where he was head of the KPD operating cell. Until his dismissal for political reasons, which took place in November 1931, he was chairman of the works council at the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk in Munich . At this time, Söllner was a member of the KPD district leadership in southern Bavaria and from 1930 to early 1933 was the organizational leader of the district committee of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO). The assumption of functions for the RGO was one reason for the dismissal from the service of the Reichsbahn. In July 1932 Söllner was elected a member of the Bavarian State Parliament.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Söllner took part in the resistance and from April 1933 continued his political activity as an agitprop functionary of the RGO district committee, which was active in illegality. In July 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia , where he was the organizational leader of the KPD emigrant groups until mid-December 1933. At the end of 1933 he moved to the Soviet Union and was there under the party name Max Otto Kursant at the International Lenin School in Moscow . Following this course, he took on tasks abroad on behalf of the Central Committee of the KPD. In September 1938 he was expatriated from Germany. All that is known about the further life of Leopold Söllner is that he was probably arrested by the NKVD and has been missing since then. He was probably a victim of the Stalin purges .
literature
- Söllner, Leopold . 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 .
- Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution - resistance - emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 306, 678 f . (Short biography).
Web links
- Leopold Söllner in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hepp: The expatriation of German citizens , Volume 1, p. 71 (List 64, No. 46).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Söllner, Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter and KPD functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dietldorf , Burglengenfeld District Office |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |
| Place of death | uncertain: Soviet Union |