Max Gerbig

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Max Gerbig (born October 1, 1884 in Leipzig ; † July 29, 1941 ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Central Committee of the KPD.

Life

Gerbig learned the carpentry trade from 1898 to 1902 and then went on a hike . In the First World War he did military service . In 1919 he joined the USPD and joined the KPD with its left wing in 1920.

Gerbig worked as a full-time party official from 1924 and was one of the leading left in the Leipzig KPD. As a member of the KPD district leadership West Saxony, he was with the majority under Artur Vogt 1925 supporter of the ultra left, later the so-called " Weddinger Opposition ", whose strongholds were in Berlin , in the Palatinate and in West Saxony. He represented the Leipzig group of the "Weddinger Opposition" at the XI. Party congress in March 1927 in Essen and was elected for her - alongside Adolf Betz (Palatinate) - to the Central Committee of the KPD. Gerbig turned away from this inner-party opposition in early 1928 and went over to the Central Committee majority. On the XII. At the 1929 party congress of the KPD in Berlin, he was not re-elected to the Central Committee. Gerbig became head of the Red Aid in West Saxony. After the merger of the Saxon party districts of East, West Saxony and Erzgebirge-Vogtland to form the district of Saxony in December 1929, he belonged to the Leipzig sub-district leadership and was mainly active among the unemployed.

literature

  • Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic . Volume 2. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1969, pp. 133f.
  • Born in the revolution, tried and tested in the class struggle. History of the KPD district organization Leipzig-West Saxony . Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Leipzig district leadership of the SED. Leipzig 1986, pp. 166, 177 and 219.
  • Gerbig, Max . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For more information on the “Weddinger Opposition” see: Marcel Bois: In the fight against Stalinism and fascism. The left opposition of the KPD in the Weimar Republic (1924–1933) . In: Kora Baumbach et al. (Ed.): Currents: Political Images, Texts and Movements . Dietz, Berlin 2007, pp. 86-109 (especially pp. 96-99).
personal data
SURNAME Gerbig, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1941