Paul Ernst Reinhold Wassermann

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Paul Ernst Reinhold Wassermann (born May 20, 1901 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ; † May 8, 1980 in Hässleholm ) was a German economist and politician .

Life

Wassermann was born in Fürstenwalde, the son of the social democratic local politician and master tailor Paul Wassermann (senior). After the founding of the local branch of the KPD in 1919, the Fürstenwalder electoral associations of the SPD and USPD allied for local elections and achieved an absolute majority in the city council. His father Paul Wassermann was elected head of the city council.

At first, unlike his father, a member of the KPD, from 1931 to 1933 he was a functionary of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP) in Frankfurt am Main . He was based on Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi , Leon Trotsky and was financially supported by Ruth Heinrichsdorff . From March 5, 1933, the police searched for Wassermann, who found refuge with Ruth and Paul Heinrichsdorff and received a train ticket to Paris from them.

In Paris he represented SAP and was editor of the New Front party organ . In the summer of 1937 he moved to Oslo with Maria Meyer-Sevenich , where he had a conflict with the SAP representative there, Willy Brandt . On September 30, 1938, Wassermann, together with Ewald Dinkla, Hans Paul Schwarz, OF Meyer and five other group members, declared a “democratic correction” to the situation in Oslo to the SAP party executive committee and split off from Brandt. Wassermann was expelled from the SAP and found a job in the Swedish Ministry of Agriculture .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short chronicle of the Fürstenwalder SPD (spd-fuerstenwalde.de)
  2. ↑ Axel Ulrich: workers united front against fascism?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--mainz19331945-qn6g.de  
  3. ↑ Ursula Langkau-Alex: German Popular Front 1932–1939. 2. History of the committee for the preparation of a German popular front. 2004, p. 174
personal data
SURNAME Wassermann, Paul Ernst Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economists and politicians (SAP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenwalde / Spree
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1980
Place of death Hässleholm