Ludwig Wedge

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Ludwig Keil (born August 1, 1896 in Bickenbach / Bergstrasse , † January 8, 1952 in Darmstadt ) was a communist politician.

Life

The son of a railroad worker completed an apprenticeship in a metal trade and was seriously wounded as a soldier during the First World War . In 1917 he became a member of the SPD and in 1920 he joined the KPD , which he represented in Offenbach's city ​​parliament and temporarily headed its local political department in Hesse. Unlike the large majority of the Offenbach KPD around Heinrich Galm , Keil did not join the KPO in 1929 , but stayed in the KPD, for which he moved up to the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse at the end of 1931 . He was a member of the parliamentary group until 1933.

Registration card of Ludwig Keil as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, Keil was imprisoned several times, including in the Dachau and Osthofen concentration camps .

In 1945 after the liberation from National Socialism , Keil initially acted as ministerial director in the Hessian Ministry of Economics and Transport . In 1946 he was elected to the state parliament for the KPD Hessen and was deputy chairman there until 1949 and then chairman of the communist parliamentary group in the place of Leo Bauer, who was later accused in a Stalinist show trial in the GDR .

literature

  • Thomas Altmeyer: Ludwig Keil (1896–1952) , In: Angelika Arenz-Morch, Stefan Heinz (Hrsg.): Trade unionists in the Osthofen concentration camp 1933/34. Biographical manual (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration , Vol. 8). Metropol, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86331-439-2 , pp. 306-311.
  • Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study “Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members” of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project “Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse” . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 59 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 296 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • 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 , p. 208.
  • 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. 422.
  • Wedge, Ludwig . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

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SURNAME Wedge, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bickenbach , Bergstrasse
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1952
Place of death Darmstadt