Paul Drews (politician)

Paul Drews (born July 11, 1896 in Lübeck ; † February 21, 1969 there ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), resistance fighter against National Socialism and prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the Lübeck citizenship and in 1945 Senator for Health in the Hanseatic City.

Life

The machine fitter Drews was drafted in 1915 and fought as a simple soldier in the First World War . In 1920 he became a member of the KPD and in 1926 party secretary in Lübeck and a member of the district leadership of the KP Wasserkante. From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the Lübeck citizenship. From May 1928 to January 1930 Drews was employed as a branch manager at the KPD's own North German publishing company.

In 1930 Drews was expelled from the KPD for criticizing the course of the party leadership and then a member and functionary of the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) in Lübeck. After the takeover of the Nazis and the ban on communist work in March 1933 made Drews resistance work. On the basis of several charges for “preparation for high treason ”, he was taken into so-called “ protective and remand custody” between 1933 and 1936 . On October 14, 1936, he was acquitted and released. In August 1939 he was arrested again and was until the end of World War II in 1945 prisoner in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

After the war ended, Drews became a member of the KPD again and returned to Lübeck. Drews belonged to the so-called "Seven Committee", a body that had been formed in Lübeck from anti-fascist forces and was recognized by the British military governor in May 1945. In 1945 Drews was appointed health senator in the Senate of the Hanseatic city and became head of the health authority in Lübeck.

In 1947 Drews resigned from the party due to increasing political differences with the KPD leadership and later became a member and functionary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Lübeck. From 1948 to 1955 he was the owner of a haulage company.

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 ).
Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 66

Individual evidence

↑ Jessica von Seggern, Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein: Democratization and New Formation of a Political Elite at District and State Level 1945 to 1950 , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005.

personal data
SURNAME	Drews, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Member of the Lübeck Citizenship (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1969
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Jessica von Seggern, Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein: Democratization and New Formation of a Political Elite at District and State Level 1945 to 1950 , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005.