Otto Max Gäbel

Otto Max Gäbel (born December 7, 1889 in Dresden , † April 13, 1970 in Bischofswiesen ) was a German politician ( USPD , KPD ) and from 1924 to 1926 a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

After attending school, Gäbel worked for the railroad, most recently as a railroad conductor. He was active in the trade union movement early on and became a member of the SPD . In 1917 he joined the USPD and became chairman of the East Saxony district. He took part in the division of the USPD in October 1920 in Halle and in the unification convention in December of the same year in Berlin, at which the left wing of the party joined the KPD.

From 1921 to 1930 Gäbel was a member of the KPD district leadership in East Saxony and from 1926 to 1928 organ leader there. In November 1921 he was elected as the leading candidate of the KPD in the Dresden city council. He was a member of this body until the KPD was banned in March 1933 and was chairman of the KPD group from 1932. In December 1924, he replaced the retired KPD MP Otto Zipfel in the Saxon state parliament and was a member of it until the end of the 1926 electoral term.

After 1928, Gäbel worked as an editor for the Dresden KPD newspaper Arbeiterstimme . In this context he was sentenced in 1931 to a prison sentence of several months for defamation of the management of the Dresden tram .

In March 1933, Gäbel emigrated to Czechoslovakia and was director of the Friends of Nature House in Dittersbach- Rennersdorf until 1935 . He then worked as a casual worker in Prague and finally emigrated to Bolivia in 1940 , where he worked as a waiter and brick carrier. In exile he was no longer active for the KPD. In Bolivia he joined the “Amistad” club run by Czech and Austrian emigrants.

Gäbel later returned to Germany and died in Bischofswiesen ( Upper Bavaria ).

literature

• Gäbel, Otto Max . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Gäbel, Otto Max . In: Horst Stoschek, Horst, Erich Zeidler: On the fight of the KPD in the Saxon state parliament against militarism and fascism in the Weimar Republic. Part II: Biographies of the members of the Communist Party of Germany in the Saxon state parliament 1920–1933. Dissertation A. University of Education “Karl Liebknecht”, Potsdam 1976, pp. 30–32.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anita Maaß : Political Communication in the Weimar Republic. The Dresden City Council 1918–1933. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-371-6 , Annex 2, p. 14.