Max Faulhaber

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Max Faulhaber (born March 12, 1904 in Erlangen , † May 8, 1996 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life and work

Faulhaber, who came from a social democratic family, spent his childhood in the Mannheim working-class district of Waldhof . After an apprenticeship as a gardener, his attempts to set up his own gardening business failed. He then worked in a tree nursery, from which he was dismissed in 1930 for political reasons. On March 30, 1933, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Kislau concentration camp . He used his imprisonment leave to flee to France, where he worked as a gardener during the Second World War .

Faulhaber returned to Mannheim on July 15, 1945. In the autumn of that year he went to South Baden . In 1946 he became secretary of the Baden chemical and factory workers' association . From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the board of the Baden trade union federation and chairman of the union of chemical and factory workers in Baden. Subsequently he was district manager of the Chemical-Paper-Ceramics Industry Union for South Baden . Because of a speech at an FDGB congress in Dresden in July 1951, he was dismissed without notice on October 18, 1951 by the main board of IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik. He later ran a bookshop in Freiburg.

politics

Faulhaber joined the Communist Youth Association in 1923 and soon also the KPD. In 1930 he became an instructor for "local groups that had become passive" in Baden. He also wrote “Der Schaffende Bauer” for the KPD newspaper. After the Second World War he participated in the rebuilding of the Freiburg KPD. From February 27, 1951, when he replaced Fritz Eiche , until the state of Baden-Württemberg was formed in 1952, he was a member of the Baden state parliament . In 1968 he took part in the founding of the DKP , of which he was the first local chairman in Freiburg until 1970.

Publications

  • We never gave up. Memories from a life in the labor movement. Publishers labor movement and social science , Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-921630-76-2 .

literature

  • Heiko Haumann : The Max Faulhaber case. Trade unions and communists - an example from South Baden 1949–1952. Publishing house labor movement and social science , Marburg 1987, ISBN 3-921630-77-0 .

Web links

  • Faulhaber, Max . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 292 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Eumann: Comrades from the red cloth. The Weimar KPD from the perspective of former members. In: Archives for the History of Resistance and Labor. 16/2001, pp. 97-164.
personal data
SURNAME Faulhaber, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1996
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau