Paul Geisler (politician)

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Paul Geisler (born September 25, 1895 in Hirschberg (Upper Silesia) , † April 2, 1971 in East Berlin ) was a German politician (KPD, SED).

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Youth and World War I (1895 to 1919)

Geisler was born in Silesia in 1895 as the son of a stoker. After attending elementary school in Hirschberg, he learned the metalworking and mechanical engineering trade from 1909 to 1912. In 1912 Geisler became a member of the DMV and in 1913 of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

From 1914 to 1915 Geisler took part in the First World War as a reinforcement soldier . He then returned to Berlin as a munitions worker. After taking part in the munitions workers' strike in January 1918 , he was called up again for the military, from which he later deserted. In 1919 Geisler joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

In the KPD, Geisler took on various functionary posts one after the other: First he worked as an instructor in the KPD district of Silesia. He then served as secretary of the KPD sub-district of Düsseldorf from 1926, then until 1928 as secretary of the KPD district leadership for the Ruhr area. From 1927 to 1928 Geisler was part of the editorial team of the communist newspaper Freiheit . From 1928 to 1929 he held the post of secretary of the IAH in the Niederrhein district. In 1929 Geisler became a member of the city council of Düsseldorf, in which he was represented until 1931. In the same year he became head of the unemployment movement in the Lower Rhine district. From 1931 to 1932 Geisler was secretary in the Reich Committee of the RGO , 1932/1933 head of the " Reich Committee of the Unemployed Germany ".

In November 1932 Geisler was elected to the Reichstag as his party's candidate for constituency 22 (Düsseldorf-Ost) .

National Socialism (1933 to 1945)

After the Reichstag fire on the night of February 27-28, 1933, Geisler was arrested like all other Communist members of parliament who could be caught. After several weeks of protective custody, which he spent in the Sonnenburg concentration camp, among other places , he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for “preparing for high treason” . From 1933 to 1936 he was held in prison in Berlin-Tegel. He was arrested again in August 1936 and held as a protective prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1939 , from which he was released on April 20, 1939. From 1939 to 1944 Geisler worked illegally in a group of communist and social democratic workers in a Berlin machine factory. In August 1944, Geisler was arrested as part of the Grid Action and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On May 2, 1945 he was freed from an evacuation transport near Schwerin .

SBZ and German Democratic Republic (1945 to 1971)

After the Second World War, Geisler began to become politically active again. In 1946 he became a member of the SED . From 1950 to 1954 Geisler was a city councilor in Berlin. From 1954 until his death in 1971, he was a member of the FDGB parliamentary group in the People's Chamber of the GDR. In addition to his work in parliament, he took on official duties in the Free German Trade Union Federation ( FDGB ): From 1945 to 1953 Geisler was deputy chairman of the FDGB state assembly in Greater Berlin. 1950 Geisler became head of the organization department of the FDGB federal executive committee. From 1950 to 1971 he was a member and from 1953 to 1955 secretary for all-German work of the FDGB federal executive committee. From 1953 to 1958 he was also a member of its executive committee. From 1958 to 1960 Geisler served as secretary of the central board of IG Metall . On May 6, 1955 Geisler received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1965 Geisler was awarded the Karl Marx Order on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the founding of the GDR . Geisler was most recently chairman of the Central Complaints Commission for Social Insurance of the FDGB.

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After his death, Geisler's urn was buried in the “Pergolenweg” grave of the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

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  1. ↑ German Institute for Contemporary History: What was when? , 1966, p. 206.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 1970, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (KPD, SED), MdR, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH April 2nd 1971
Place of death Berlin