Otto Thomas (politician)

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Otto Thomas (born January 23, 1886 in Heisterberg (Driedorf) , † October 19, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German politician and union official .

Life

He learned to be a cutting machine operator . From 1900 he worked as a shoemaker in a rotary pin factory. In 1906 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1910 he was a workers' secretary in a Christian trade union in Heidelberg and later in Munich. He was deployed in World War I and had contacts with Kurt Eisner .

Presumably he was a member of the Bavarian State Soldiers' Council. For the majority Social Democratic Party of Germany , he sat in the Bavarian state parliament from November 1918 to January 1919 . In 1919 he was employed by the Reich Association of War Disabled Persons, left the MSPD and in March 1919 joined the Communist Party of Germany . In 1919 an unsuccessful criminal case was brought against him for participation in the Soviet Republic. From July 1919 he was editor of the Neue Zeitung .

In 1920 he was a candidate for the state parliament in the constituency of Middle Franconia and agitated with Otto Graf and Josef Römer with a national Boshevik declaration against the Peace Treaty of Versailles . After Graf was expelled from the KPD and converted to the SPD at the end of 1922, the charge was made that he had received 350,000 marks from Ernst Pöhner through Josef Römer for the Neue Zeitung . In 1923 Otto Thomas was a workers' secretary in a trade union in Munich. In 1924 he was employed in the district management of the KPD Greater Thuringia in Jena. In 1924 he was in Moscow . From 1926 to 1929 he was editor-in-chief of the Neue Zeitung in Jena , from 1929 in the editorial office of the newly founded non-partisan KPD newspaper Berlin am Morgen in the Willi Münzenberg group .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hdbg.de/parlament/content/persDetail.php?id=2314
  2. ↑ Martin H. Geyer , Inverted World : Revolution, Inflation and Modernity, Munich 1914–1924, p. 295
  3. ↑ Gerda Walther , On the other side : from Marxism and atheism to Christianity, p. 170.
  4. ↑ Joachim Lilla, Der Bayerische Landtag 1918/19 to 1933: Election proposals, composition, biographies, Commission for Bavarian State History, 2008 - Legislators - 618 pp., P. 529

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SURNAME Thomas, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and union official
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Heisterberg (Driedorf)
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1930
Place of death Berlin