Otto Zipfel
Otto Zipfel (born June 29, 1886 in Pegau , † February 13, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament .
Life
Otto Zipfel, the son of a shoemaker's assistant, was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and a full-time union employee in Leipzig even before the First World War . In 1917 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD).
During the Kapp Putsch in March 1920, Zipfel was a member of the operational command of the USPD in Leipzig. During actions in the east of Leipzig, he came into closer contact with Walter Ulbricht . Zipfel was a delegate at the USPD split party conference in October 1920 in Halle. At the end of 1920 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was secretary of the KPD district of East Saxony until 1922. In December 1920, Zipfel replaced Friedrich Geyer , who had moved to the Reichstag , to the Saxon state parliament. From the summer of 1924 he represented Rudolf Renner, who was in the Soviet Union , as political director (Polleiter). Zipfel was a supporter of Heinrich Brandler and was replaced in 1924 as "right wing". In December 1924 he was asked by the party to return his seat in the state parliament. Otto Max Gäbel took over for him .
Zipfel received compensation from the party for resigning as a full-time KPD functionary and for voluntarily returning the seat of parliament. With the severance payment, he opened a cigar shop in Dresden. In 1925 he was expelled from the KPD. Afterwards, Zipfel no longer emerged politically.
He was killed in the Allied air raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945.
literature
- Harald Jentsch: The KPD and the "German October" 1923 . Koch, Rostock, ISBN 3-938686-33-2 , p. 584.
- Zipfel, Otto . 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 .
Web links
- Entry: Zipfel, Otto on the page "Historical Protocols of the Saxon State Parliament".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Kühn: Georg Schumann. A biography . Dietz, Berlin 1965, p. 157.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zipfel, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdL Saxony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pegau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |