Paul Hauke

Paul Hauke (born November 24, 1884 in Köppernig , Neisse district , Upper Silesia ; † January 8, 1954 in Nienburg / Weser ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the Prussian state parliament and state councilor in the Upper Silesian provincial administration .

Life

Hauke, son of a master shoemaker , attended elementary school in Köppernig and initially worked as a trade and transport worker in Wroclaw . In 1900 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1909 he married Frieda Kirsch (1890–1972), who later became a member of the Reichstag for the SPD. From 1910 to 1918 Hauke ​​was a full-time party secretary in Gleiwitz . With his wife he was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Katowice and the Provincial People's Committee in 1918/19 . From December 1918 to January 1919 he headed the German propaganda headquarters of the Central People's Council in Katowice.

From 1918 to 1922 Hauke ​​was district party secretary of the SPD for Upper Silesia, based in Kattowitz, then from 1922 to 1925 in Hindenburg OS. From 1919 to 1922 he was a city councilor in Katowice and chairman of the SPD district organization. From 1919 to 1924 Hauke ​​represented the SPD as a member of the Prussian state assembly and the Prussian state parliament. From 1925 to 1933 he worked as a regional councilor in the Upper Silesian provincial administration in Ratibor and was also a deputy member of the Prussian State Council .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Hauke ​​was imprisoned from May 20 to early October 1933. He and his wife were arrested again on August 21, 1944 as part of the “ Aktion Gewitter ”. However, he was released at the end of September 1944.

After his expulsion from Upper Silesia in November 1945 and after staying in several refugee camps, Hauke ​​moved to Nienburg / Weser in 1948. Here Hauke ​​worked as the local club chairman of the SPD and as chairman of the group he founded "Heimattreue Oberschlesier". He had to give up these offices after he went blind in 1950.

literature

• Wolfgang Schumann : Upper Silesia 1918/19. From the common struggle of German and Polish workers . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1961, p. 87.
• Edmund Klein: Rada Ludowa we Wrocławiu, Centralna Rada dla Prowincji Śląskiej . Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw / Breslau 1976, pp. 79, 125, 156, 203, 209, 213, 244, 351 and 372.
• Michael Ruck : The trade unions in the early years of the republic 1919–1923 . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7663-0901-3 , pp. 333, 335, 549 and 1042.
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 492.
• Christl Wickert (Red.), Executive Committee of the SPD (Ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Schüren, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 132.