Oskar Edel

Emil Oskar Edel (born September 23, 1892 in Ottendorf , † July 14, 1958 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / SED ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament both in the Weimar Republic and in the young GDR .

Life

Edel attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a book printer . He then worked in this profession and as an editor . In 1908 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1917 he switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and was editor of the Independent People's Newspaper in Dresden. From 1917 to 1922 Edel was a member of the USPD district committee Dresden-East Saxony. In 1922 Edel became a member of the SPD again. From 1922 to 1933 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament , between 1926 and 1929 also chairman and from 1930 to 1933 deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1923 to 1928 Edel was deputy chairman of the sub-district of Greater Dresden of the SPD and the district of East Saxony of the SPD. From 1925 to 1928 Edel acted as chairman of the state committee for socialist education, from 1928 to 1933 as a member of the Reich party committee of the SPD. From 1924 he was also a member and later chairman of the state working committee of the SPD (until 1933). In 1923 Edel was one of the proponents of a social democratic-communist united front . Prime Minister Erich Zeigner appointed him to the editorial team of the Saxon State Newspaper in 1923 (until 1924). Edel was also an honorary member of the Dresden City Council from 1930 to 1933 and from 1927 worked for the magazine Der Klassenkampf . As the successor to Arthur Arzt , he was chairman of the SPD district of Dresden from mid-1928 to 1933. Edel opposed the founding of SAP in 1931 .

After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists in 1933, Edel continued to work illegally for the SPD. In the spring of 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia . In autumn 1933 he was elected chairman of the foreign leadership of the East Saxon SPD. On March 3, 1936, Edel was expatriated by the National Socialists . In 1939 Edel emigrated to Sweden . There he headed the SPD local group in Malmö and was an advocate of cooperation with the KPD and the “Free Germany” movement . He wrote the “Socialist Manifesto - Fundamental Considerations and Demands” ( information from the SPD-Malmö , August 15, 1944) on the political work of the SPD after the war . From December 1944 he was a member of the national leadership of the SPD elected in Stockholm (until 1947).

In the summer of 1947 Edel returned to Germany, to the Soviet occupation zone , and became a member of the SED. From 1947 to 1949 Edel was a member of the SED Landessekretariat Sachsen (responsible for the administration and local politics department ). From 1949 to 1951 he was head of the state administration department at the SED state executive. 1951/52 he worked as a department head in the Saxon Ministry of Economics and Labor. From July 1950 to 1952 Edel was a member of the Saxon state parliament , from 1951/52 deputy chairman of the SED parliamentary group and chairman of the legal and justice committee. He was then a member of the Dresden District Assembly from 1952 to 1955 . Edel was most recently the association secretary in the association of housing construction companies in the Dresden district.

Fonts (selection)

• The counter-revolution, its advance, its causes and its lessons for the working class . Dresden 1920.
• The Saxon question. To assess the causes and effects of the Saxon party conflict . Leipzig 1925.
• Communist slogan politics or socialist class struggle . Dresden 1927.

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 892.
• Frank Heidenreich: Workers' Culture Movement and Social Democracy in Saxony before 1933 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-412-08495-6 , p. 423.
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 934.
• Michael F. Scholz: Would you like some Scandinavian experience? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07651-4 , p. 353 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Mike Schmeitzner, Stefan Donth: The party to enforce dictatorship. KPD / SED in Saxony 1945–1952 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-412-07702-X , pp. 544f.
• Carsten Voigt: Combat leagues of the labor movement. The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the Red Front Fighter League in Saxony 1924–1933 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20449-5 , pp. 52, 63, 85, 110, 415-417 and 476.

Web links

• Entry in the personal wiki of SLUB Dresden .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Lau: Press policy as an opportunity. State public relations in the countries of the Weimar Republic . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, p. 157.
2. ↑ Anita Maaß : Political Communication in the Weimar Republic. The Dresden City Council 1918–1933. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-371-6 , Appendix 4, p. 2.
3. ↑ Van de duitsche Nationaliteit dungeon. Nieuwe namenlijst plubliceerd . In: Algemeen Handelsblad , March 4, 1936 ( Memento of the original of November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 35.3 MB), p. 2. 
4. ^ To the members and officials of the SPD . In: Neues Deutschland , February 26, 1956, p. 5.