Oskar Seipold

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Oskar Seipold (born November 28, 1889 in Łódź , † December 29, 1966 in Haan ) was a communist politician.

Life

The trained potter Seipold emigrated to Germany in 1907, where he worked in the textile industry and joined the SPD in 1909 . In 1911 Seipold returned to Russia and, being a Russian citizen, completed his military service in the Tsarist Empire; Soldier in World War I , he was taken prisoner by Germany.

In 1919 Seipold became a German citizen and joined the USPD , and in 1920 the KPD , in which he was part of the left wing. Fled to Lithuania in 1921 because of imminent arrest, Seipold was involved in preparations for uprising in East Prussia in 1923. For this he was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1924 , who meanwhile headed the local KPD newspaper Echo des Ostens .

Released in 1927, he served as section head of the Red Front Fighters' Union in East Prussia until 1929 . In February 1930 he, whose Trotskyist sympathies had become increasingly clear, was expelled from the KPD after he had refused to resign from his seat in the Prussian state parliament , which he had taken in early 1930 as a replacement for Ernst Meyer . He then joined the (United) Left Opposition of the KPD (LO). Due to a free ticket for the Reichsbahn linked to his state parliament mandate , Seipold took on an indispensable role for the LO over the next two years as an event speaker and in the coordination between the party leadership and the local groups.

Arrested by the Gestapo in Insterburg / East Prussia on March 2, 1933 , Seipold was held in various prisons until the end of the year, most recently in the so-called old prison in Brandenburg an der Havel . After he was noticed in 1934 because of the distribution of anti-fascist leaflets, Seipold first fled to Prague , where the KPD slandered him as a “fascist”. At the end of January 1935 he returned to his hometown Łódź, where he survived the German occupation from 1939 with the help of false identities and temporarily underground. During this time Seipold changed the name to Sepold. In October 1945 Sepold first went to Crimmitschau / Saxony, where the Communist Party offered him an official post .

At political rallies at which Sepold gave speeches, he expressed himself e.g. Partly critical of the regime in the Soviet-occupied zone. After a warning about his imminent arrest, he fled to the Federal Republic on March 3, 1949. Without being particularly politically active in the future, Oskar Sepold was still a committed party member of the SPD and a staunch trade unionist. Living in Haan / Rhineland since the beginning of 1951 , Sepold began to work in the Paul Spindler works (textile) in Hilden / Rhineland, first in the construction of the factory buildings and then in the textile works themselves. He belonged to the Paul Spindler works for many years, until his retirement, as chairman of the works council and played a key role together with the plant management in Spindler's worker participation (“partnership of capital and work”).

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SURNAME Seipold, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1966
Place of death Haan