Paul Bergmann

Paul Bergmann

Paul Bergmann (born June 11, 1881 in Oberreißen ( Thuringia ), † May 25, 1951 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the Weimar Republic , member of the Reichstag ( SPD ) and trade unionist. He belonged to the Hamburg citizenship from 1919 to 1928 and to the Reichstag from 1928 (4th electoral term) to 1932 (6th electoral term). After the Second World War he was again a member of parliament.

Life

After attending primary school, he learned the trade of butcher in Weimar . He then worked as a craftsman in various cities in Germany and Denmark . In 1904 he joined the SPD, in 1907 he became the agent of the paying office of the Central Association of Butchers and then editor of the journal Der Fleischer published by the association .

As a soldier he took part in the First World War until 1915, after which he joined the USPD , was district leader of the "Central Association of Butchers in Northern Germany" and from April 1, 1928 also Gauleiter of the "Association of Food and Beverage Workers". The association was created through a merger of the associations of bakers and confectioners, brewers, millers, butchers and cooper .

In 1918 he became editor of the newspaper Die Rote Fahne of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council, published in Hamburg, and chairman of the local USPD. In March 1919, he became a top candidate for the USPD, a member of the Hamburg parliament and chairman of the faction of his party there. As a USPD spokesman in the constitutional committee, Bergmann - like Kurt Eisner in Bavaria - spoke out in favor of a system that would combine elements of parliamentary democracy and council democracy . Bergmann was a member of the state parliament (with an interruption from April 1920 to February 1921 due to the return of the mandate forced by the party majority) until 1928. In addition, he was editor and later managing director of the local USPD organ Hamburger Volkszeitung ; When this with the majority of the Hamburg USPD around Hermann Reich and Ernst Thälmann went to the KPD at the end of 1920 , he became the publisher and editor of the Hamburger Tribüne , the newspaper of the minority that remained with the USPD, which merged with the SPD in 1922, of which he was the regional executive temporarily belonged. Within the SPD during the Weimar period, Bergmann was on the left wing of the party. Although he belonged to the inner circle of Max Seydewitz and Kurt Rosenfeld and was involved in the founding of the factional organ Die Fackel in autumn 1931 , which led to the expulsion of six members of the Reichstag and the constitution of the SAPD , Bergmann remained, who was at the time the SAPD was founded was seriously ill in the SPD.

In Hamburg he was a member of the press commission of the SPD organ Hamburger Echo , a member of the supervisory board of the consumer, construction and savings association “Production” in Hamburg and of the Hamburg workshops for the disabled . He was also a labor judge.

In 1928 he entered the Reichstag for constituency 34 (Hamburg), of which he was a member until 1932. After the NSDAP came to power , Bergmann was imprisoned for four weeks, and in the summer of 1944 he was held again in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp for a few weeks as part of the Grid Action . In 1946 he became a member of the first elected citizenship after the liberation from National Socialism.

The Bergmannring in Hamburg-Horn is named after him.

literature

• Paul Bergmann . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 21.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Paul Bergmann in the database of members of the Reichstag