Max Sachs

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Max Sachs (born September 23, 1883 in Breslau ; † October 5, 1935 in Sachsenburg concentration camp ) was a German journalist , editor and member of the Saxon State Parliament ( SPD ).

Life

After completing school and commercial training as a clerk, he received his doctorate in 1907. rer. pole. at the University of Tübingen . As a journalist, he worked on several newspapers until in 1911 he took over the business editor of the Dresdner Volkszeitung . Sachs became increasingly politically active in Dresden . In 1920 he took part in the SPD party congress in Kassel. He was the municipality representative of Briesnitz until 1922 , belonged to the city council of the Dresden SPD from 1922 to 1924 and was a member of the SPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament during the second electoral period (1922 to 1926) .

After Hitler came to power in 1933, comrades advised Sachs urgently to emigrate from Germany , he was the son of a Jewish banker. Sachs stayed and was in March 1933 with other editors of the Dresdner Volkszeitung, z. B. Kurt Heilbut , arrested by the National Socialists. He was released for a short time until he was arrested again on suspicion of subversive activity and transferred to the Sachsenburg concentration camp. There he died during several days of severe abuse.

Max Sachs Stolperstein in Dresden ( List of Stolpersteine ​​in Dresden )

His older daughter Klara was able to flee to Holland in 1935. She later came to France, where she married the lawyer and political scientist Heinrich Ehrmann in 1939 , and to the USA via Portugal and Spain. His wife Maria lived in Bielefeld until the end of the war, until she got the expropriated house back in a court case in 1948 and moved back to Dresden.

Works

  • The health insurance system in Stuttgart until 1904 Dissertation Max Sachs, Max Bielefeld; A. Gerisch & Co .; 1907; 141 pp.
  • Racial hygiene , in: Arbeiter-Jugend 6/1914, no. 13, pp. 194f.
  • The driving forces of history , in: Arbeiter-Jugend 8/1916, H. 6, S. 46f.
  • The food shortage , in: Arbeiter-Jugend 10/1918, H. 3/4, S. 21f.
  • War capitalism, in: Arbeiter-Jugend 10/1918, no. 12, pp. 89f.
  • Social Democracy and State , in: Arbeiter-Jugend vol. 17, p. 129f.
  • The national wealth in war , in: Arbeiter-Jugend vol. 21, p. 162f.
  • The Valutav, in: Arbeiter-Jugend 11/1919, no. 14, p. 102f.
  • Inflation and inflation , Dresden 1919;
  • The need for a work program , in: Die Neue Zeit 2/1920, H. 39, P. 491–497, H. 40, P. 512–518;
  • The capitalist social order , in: Arbeiter-Jugend 12/1920, H. 7/8, P. 74f.
  • Capitalism and Socialism , in: Arbeiter-Jugend, no. 12, p. 126f.
  • The capitalist economy , in: Arbeiter-Jugend vol. 24, pp. 271f.
  • The creative person in capitalist and socialist society , in: Arbeiter-Jugend 13/1921, no. 6, pp. 189–191
  • Workers ' youth and reparation , in: Arbeiter-Jugend vol. 9, pp. 294–296
  • Planned economy and socialization , in: Die Neue Zeit 3/1921, no. 39, pp. 448–453
  • Job creation through consumer goods production , in: Die Arbeit 10/1933, no. 2, pp. 95–97.

literature

  • Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Breslau on April 30, 1893 , Breslau 1893, p. 109;
  • Handbook of public life , M. Müller-Jabusch (ed.), Leipzig 1925, p. 534
  • Dr. Max Sachs dead , in: Neuer Vorwärts October 20, 1935, p. 2
  • New blood guilt of the system , in: Neuer Vorwärts March 1, 1936, p. 1
  • Murder in Sachsenburg camp , in: Neuer Vorwärts June 6, 1937, p. 4
  • The SPD Left in the Weimar Republic , D. Klenke, Vol. 1, Münster 1983, pp. 560f.
  • Concentration Camp , J. Tuchel, Boppard 1991, p. 200;
  • Democracy and Emancipation between Saale and Elbe , Koblenz 1993, pp. 147–170
  • Social democratic parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867–1933 , WH Schröder, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 692
  • Search for clues. Jews in Dresden , ed. von Hatikva eV Dresden, Hamburg 1995, pp. 94, 115;
  • History of Social Democracy in the Saxon State Parliament , M. Schmeitzner / M. Rudloff, Dresden 1997, pp. 123f., 212f.
  • Sächsische Lebensbilder , M. Altner, Radebeul 2001, p. 136
  • Education to the "national community"? , C. Baganz, Berlin 2005, pp. 58, 275, 285;
  • Dresden memorial for the victims of the Nazi regime , H. Goldhammer / K. Jeschke, Dresden 2006, pp. 46, 92f.
  • Book of Memory, ed. from the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Dresden eV , Dresden 2006, p. 313;
  • Establishment of Nazi rule , G. Ulbricht, in: H. Starke (ed.), Geschichte der Stadt Dresden, Vol. 3, Stuttgart 2006, pp. 413–424;
  • Of power and powerlessness , M. Schmeitzner / A. Wagner (ed.), Beucha 2006, pp. 58, 174, 200, 316;
  • GDR justice and Nazi crimes , CF Rüter (ed.), Vol. 5, Munich 2004, pp. 565–570, Vol. 13, Munich 2009, pp. 281–295;
  • The future of the Weimar Republic , R. Graf, Munich 2008, p. 302. - DBA III; DBE 8, p. 488;
  • Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Vol. 1, Hannover 1960, pp. 258-259. (P).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume I Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH Hanover
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1935
Place of death Sachsenburg concentration camp