Oswald Bleier

Oswald Bleier (born December 17, 1889 in Voigtsgrün ; † May 9, 1936 in Waldheim ) was a German politician ( KPD ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and from 1926 to 1929 a member of the state parliament of Saxony .

Life

Bleier, the son of a day laborer , began an apprenticeship as a porcelain grinder after primary school , which he had to give up for health reasons. In 1907 he moved to Riesa and worked as a steel worker. In 1912 he was drafted into military service and fought in the First World War from 1914 . Bleier had joined the SPD before the outbreak of war . He was deployed on the German Eastern Front and was released as a war disabled after being seriously wounded . In 1917 he joined the USPD and in 1920 he joined the KPD.

Between 1918 and 1925, Bleier was unemployed for a long time and was seriously ill with tuberculosis . In 1925 he took a job at a Riesa brewery. From 1924 to 1926, Bleier for the KPD city councilor in Riesa. In 1926 he was elected to the Saxon state parliament.

In 1929 the KPD faction split up in the state parliament in Saxony. Although Bleier remained loyal to the political line of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KPD with the majority of the faction, he was no longer put up as a candidate for the state parliament in 1929 due to conciliatory tendencies towards dissenters from within the party. Bleier nevertheless remained a member of the KPD.

From 1926 to 1930 Bleier was secretary of the Riesa-Oschatz-Großenhain sub-district and until 1930 a member of the KPD's western Saxony district leadership. After the handover of power to the National Socialists and the ban on the KPD, Bleier also supported the party in illegality. He was arrested in March 1933 and interned in a concentration camp until the end of 1933 . Bleier was arrested again on October 2, 1934 and sentenced to five years in prison on July 8, 1935 by the Dresden Higher Regional Court. In addition, his German citizenship was revoked.

In this procedure, the Dresden police applied for Bleier and his wife to be deported from Germany after his arrest. On May 9, 1936, however, Bleier died in Waldheim prison of tuberculosis . A street in Riesa is named after Bleier.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
• Allan Merson : Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany . Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-89144-262-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oswald Bleier in the catalog of the German National Library