Max Roscher
Max Roscher (born July 22, 1888 in Pockau , † August 28, 1940 in Peredelkino , Soviet Union ) was a member of the Reichstag and a Saxon state parliament member of the KPD in the Weimar Republic .
Life
Max Roscher was born on July 22, 1888 in Pockau in the Ore Mountains as the son of a small farmer. After elementary school and an apprenticeship as a bricklayer , he hired himself as a traveling journeyman from 1904 to 1908 . He worked in brickworks and construction companies. In 1911 Roscher became a member of the SPD . With the beginning of the First World War he was drafted as a soldier to the front. During the war Roscher made contact with the Spartacus group . After the armistice negotiations, he returned to his home in Saxony in Marienberg in December 1918 and became a member of the local workers 'and soldiers' council . Roscher inevitably joined the KPD in March 1919 and became its political leader in the Pockau sub-district in 1920. Worked as a bricklayer until 1922, he was sent to Thuringia as a full-time organ leader in 1923, but returned to Pockau in spring 1924.
Roscher ran successfully for the Reichstag in May 1924 in the Chemnitz-Zwickau constituency. However, after the short-lived second electoral term, he was not re-elected. After the episode as a member of the Reichstag, Roscher became agitprop secretary of the KPD district leadership in Chemnitz-Erzgebirge. In this capacity he was arrested in February 1925 and stayed behind prison walls until November of that year. For the Saxon state elections in 1926, Roscher ran again as a candidate for the KPD and received a mandate for the third electoral period until 1929. In the internal party wing battles of 1928/29 he stood in the line of the party leadership and remained a member of the Saxon KPD state parliamentary group. As head of the KPD sub-district Freiberg, Roscher was arrested in early 1931 and sentenced to 20 months in prison in September of the same year for “preparing for high treason ”. Due to his poor health, however, he was released after some time.
Roscher resumed his old position in Freiberg, but then emigrated to the ČSR in February 1933 . After a short interlude from August to December 1933 in Dresden again , he finally settled in Prague . To restore his health, the party sent him to the Soviet Union. From there he went to the International Brigades after a stay at a spa and an activity as an instructor in Kharkov when the civil war in Spain broke out in 1936 . He fought there in the Edgar André battalion . In November Roscher suffered a serious injury off Madrid . Despite multiple operations behind the front and in the Soviet Union, Roscher died in a convalescent home for disabled Spanish fighters in Peredelkino near Moscow.
Max Roscher was the father of SED functionary Paul Roscher (1913-1993).
Honors in the GDR
- Motorized Rifle Regiment 7 "Max Roscher" in Marienberg
- Torpedo speedboat of the Volksmarine "Max Roscher"
- Mine shaft in Brand-Erbisdorf
- POS "Max Roscher" in Mülsen
- POS "Max Roscher" in Borstendorf
- VEB Strumpfkombinat ESDA, business unit “Max Roscher” Gornau
- Frauenstein Youth Hostel
- LPG "Max Roscher" in Wernsdorf
- Street in Freiberg
literature
- Roscher, 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 .
Web links
- Max Roscher in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Max Roscher
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roscher, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pockau |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1940 |
| Place of death | Peredelkino , Soviet Union |