Max Heydemann

Max Heydemann (born February 3, 1884 in Güstrow , † October 27, 1956 in Altötting ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD , KPD ) and journalist .

Life

After attending grammar school in Güstrow, Rostock and Waren, Heydemann studied economics and history in Freiburg / Breisgau, Munich and Jena . Since 1907 he was a member of the SPD and from 1910 onwards he worked as a correspondent for the social democratic press, including in Vienna and Paris. Returned to Germany in 1915 during the First World War , he was a soldier until 1918, during the November Revolution he was a member of the Soldiers' Council in Koenigsberg and joined the USPD. During this period, the devout evangelical Christian Heydemann caused a sensation, among other things, by remarking that Rosa Luxemburg , Karl Liebknecht and Kurt Eisner, like Jesus Christ, were misunderstood martyrs. In 1919 he was elected to the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia and the city council assembly of Königsberg.

Belonging to the left wing of the USPD, which at the end of 1920 merged with the KPD to form the VKPD , Heydemann was elected to the party's central committee at the unification congress. During the internal party conflicts in 1921 over the March Action, one of the supporters of party chairmen Paul Levi and Ernst Däumig , Heydemann, who was also elected to the Reichstag in a by-election in East Prussia in March of that year , remained in the party and did not join the KAG over. In the provincial parliament he was a member of the KPD faction from 1921 and was non-attached from April 16, 1925.

In May 1924 Heydemann was re-elected to the Reichstag, in December of the same year he lost his mandate there and was briefly imprisoned, but became a member of the Prussian state parliament . After the party leadership around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow had asked all KPD members to leave the church in April 1925, he left the party and initially took up his mandate as an independent member of parliament. In February 1926 Heydemann rejoined the SPD and was re-elected to the state parliament in the two subsequent elections in 1928 and 1932.

During the time of National Socialism Heydemann was imprisoned in Lichtenburg concentration camp from August to December 1934 and in the Gestapo prison in Karlsbad from September 1944 to March 1945 . After the end of the Second World War , Heydemann settled in Perach and was a member of the Altötting district council.

literature

• Heydemann, Max . 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 .
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 25, digitized .

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Heydemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Max Heydemann in the state bibliography MV
• Max Heydemann in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Max Heydemann in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
• Max Heydemann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Max Heydemann's biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)