Paul Röhle

Paul Röhle

Paul Röhle (* 29. April 1885 in Barmen ; † 13. January 1958 in Wiesbaden ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Paul Röhle was born the son of a building contractor. After attending elementary school in Barmen, he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter from 1899 to 1902 and then worked as a journeyman painter in various cities in Germany until 1912. He was involved in the Association of German Painters , became a member of the trade union in March 1903 and was chairman of the Düsseldorf branch from 1906 to 1911 . From January 1912 to March 1915 he worked as a union employee for the painters' association in Plauen . At the same time he acted as a board member of the union cartel. From April 1915 to October 1919 he was a workers' secretary in Plauen.

On January 30, 1933, the Nazi regime seized power in Germany. Röhle initially announced a “great decisive battle” to trade unionists; but it did not come to this.

In June 1933, Röhle was briefly taken into " protective custody ". After his release from prison, he was initially unemployed, then worked as a sales representative and was drafted into service at the commodity trading company in Berlin in 1939 . Documents in the Federal Archives show that Röhle was under the cover number S 18 (temporarily also S 17) under the name of Gestapo commissioner Sattler ("Marxism" department in the Secret State Police Office in Berlin). After 1945 he worked as a presidential director at the regional council of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau (see History of Rhineland-Palatinate ).

From 1947 to 1951 he was President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Labor Office (based in Koblenz ).

Political party

Röhle joined the SPD in April 1902. After the First World War he was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Plauen and a member of the state workers 'and soldiers' council for Saxony . From November 1919 to 1933 he was district secretary of the SPD for the province of Hessen-Nassau , based in Frankfurt am Main , and from 1920 to 1933 also a member of the central party committee of the Social Democrats. In 1945 he was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic Party of the Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau Province , today's SPD state association in Rhineland-Palatinate .

MP

Röhle was a city ​​councilor in Plauen from 1916 to 1919 . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From 1924 until the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . After the Second World War he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 1947 and was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament from 1947 to 1951 . In the first legislative period he was elected vice-president of the state parliament.

Public offices

In the provisional Rhineland-Palatinate state government under Wilhelm Boden , Röhle was Labor Minister from December 3, 1946 to June 13, 1947.

See also

• Cabinet floor I

literature

• 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 .
• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term, Berlin 1933, p. 374.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? . 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, pp. 1281/1282.
• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Hrsg.): 60 years parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate. Issue 33 of the publication series of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz 2006. ISSN  1610-3432

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Röhle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Röhle in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Röhle, Paul. Hessian biography. (As of July 20, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Footnotes

1. ↑ More details from Axel Ulrich: Konrad Arndt. A Wiesbaden trade unionist and social democrat in the fight against fascism ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 864 kB). Wiesbaden 2001, page 22 (of 87).
2. ↑ More details from Siegfried Grundmann: The V-people of the Gesapo-Kommissar Sattler, 2010, Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag Berlin