Max Silbermann

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Max Silbermann (born January 18, 1896 in Ehrenberg near Kriebstein ; † February 5, 1968 there ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Silbermann, the son of a brewer, worked as a gardener and furrier . From 1914 to 1918 he did military service as a soldier in the First World War . In 1919 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and in 1921 became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1924 to 1930 he was chairman of the works council and in 1926 headed the factory workers' association in Waldheim . Silbermann was a member of the district headquarters Erzgebirge-Vogtland the Communist Party and from 1929 secretary of its sub-district Döbeln - Riesa . Silbermann became a member of the Saxon state parliament on June 18, 1931.

On March 9, 1933, he was arrested in the state parliament together with the stenographer of the KPD state parliamentary group, Miss Gimmer. He remained in various concentration camps until the beginning of September 1935 as a so-called “protective prisoner” . After his release, Silbermann was placed under police supervision. In 1936, Silbermann moved to southern Germany and did illegal work there against the Nazi regime. In 1942 he was arrested and imprisoned again. In 1944 he got in touch with the Resistance in Alsace . Silbermann was initially a KPD functionary in Baden in 1945/46 , but returned to his Saxon homeland in 1947. For some time he was secretary of the Döbeln district board of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid . He lived in his birthplace until his death.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-77005-189-0 , p. 153.
  • Silbermann, Max . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Silbermann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehrenberg (Kriebstein)
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1968
Place of death Ehrenberg (Kriebstein)