Max Seppel

Max Seppel

Max Seppel (born February 2, 1881 in Breslau , † April 20, 1954 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Live and act

Max Seppel was born into a Catholic family from Silesia . From 1886 to 1895 he attended the elementary school in Breslau. Seppel then began an apprenticeship as a locksmith, which he had to break off after a year in order to earn a living for his mother and siblings after the death of his father (1896). In the following years he worked as an errand boy, worker and house servant. In 1899 he joined the postal service. From 1899 to 1901 he worked as a post office helper, then as a postman until 1907, as a country postman until 1913 and finally as a postman from 1913 to 1920. From 1909 Seppel was a board member of the individual local groups of the Association of Lower Post and Telegraph Officials, most recently from 1918 to 1920 as chairman of the district association in Breslau.

As a member of the SPD, Seppel began to be more politically active during the First World War . In 1918 he came to the People's Council of the city of Wroclaw. In 1919 he became a city councilor. In 1920 Seppel was elected as a member of his party for constituency 7 (Breslau) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged until November 1932. From May 1924 to September 1930, however, he was a member of parliament for constituency 8 (Breslau; after a reorganization of the constituency numbering), and then belonged to parliament as his party's proposal for a Reich election until November 1932. In addition, Seppel was a member of the Reichsbeamtenverein of the SPD from January 1920 and from April 1924 to October 1930 a deputy member of the administrative board of the Deutsche Reichspost .

After the " seizure of power " Seppel was imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp in 1933 . His application for membership in the NSDAP , made in November 1939, was rejected in October 1940. In the decision of the NSDAP district court Breslau-Land it said:

“In defending his political opinion, [Seppel] was one of the most prominent and stubborn supporters of the Marxist idea and did damage to our like-minded people and the movement wherever he could.
In view of his political past and his agility, it cannot be assumed that he really became a National Socialist inwardly and that he stands steadfastly behind the Fiihrer. Rather, it can be assumed that he is seeking membership only for the sake of selfish purposes. "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Decision of the party court in Breslau-Land of October 30, 1940 in documents of the Berlin Document Center , cited by: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR Die Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 1293.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Seppel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Max Seppel in the database of members of the Reichstag