Max Dörr

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Max Dörr (born August 31, 1886 in Berlin ; † after 1928) was a German journalist and politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), from 1924 to 1928 a member of the Prussian state parliament and until 1926 chairman of the KPD parliamentary group in the Berlin city council . In 1926 he was expelled from the KPD after a financial scandal and sentenced to three months in prison for embezzlement .

Life

After elementary school, Dörr learned the profession of technical draftsman and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1908 . In the following years he moved first to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and later to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), for which he performed various functions. In 1921 he was elected to the Berlin city council and an unpaid city council.

In March 1924 Dörr became editor of the KPD newspaper Die Rote Fahne . For the Reichstag elections in May 1924, Dörr was elected to fourth place in the Berlin constituency, but did not move into parliament. In June 1924 Dörr was briefly imprisoned. In December of the same year he was elected to the Prussian state parliament. He retained his mandate in the Berlin city council and was chairman of the parliamentary group there. In 1925 he began a new journalistic activity at the municipal department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KPD and was among other things editor-in-chief of the KPD magazine Die Kommune. Journal of Communist Local Politics .

In 1926 Dörr was unexpectedly expelled from the KPD. He was charged with misappropriating party funds. In May 1927 he was also accused of having received 3,000 Reichsmarks from the Berlin city treasury, which were intended for the Red Aid of Germany (RHD), but only forwarded 2,000 Marks and only handed the rest two years later. As a result, he was sentenced to three months in prison that same year. According to Dörr's account, his left-wing opposition to the KPD leadership was the reason for the quarrels.

After his exclusion from the party and factions of the KPD, Dörr exercised his mandates as a non-attached member until 1928 . In August 1927 he published a series in the Russian émigré newspaper Rul on "The Dependence and Financing of the KPD on Moscow".

Dörr then no longer appeared politically or journalistically; his fate after 1928 is largely unknown.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phrases or Actions? , Leaflet of the SPD against the KPD and call for the Berlin city council election in 1929, with a mention of Max Dörr, Berlin, 1929, in the archive of the German Historical Museum Berlin .
  2. ↑ Annika Klein, Corruption and Corruption Scandals in the Weimar Republic , V&R unipress GmbH, May 2014, p. 286
personal data
SURNAME Dörr, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), member of the Prussian state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1928