Paul Redlich

Paul Redlich (born January 17, 1893 in Braunschweig , † March 3, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German politician of the Weimar Republic and member of the Reichstag ( KPD ) from 1930 to 1933. He was a resistance fighter against the National Socialist regime .

Life

After attending primary school, he did an apprenticeship as a painter in Holzminden between 1907 and 1911 . Redlich then worked in this profession and was organized as a free trade union since 1912. Between 1914 and 1918 he took part in the First World War. After the First World War, he joined the KPD in 1920, where he took on numerous functions. From 1928/29 Redlich became involved in the revolutionary trade union opposition . From mid-1931 he was Gauleiter of the unit association of agricultural and forest workers (EVLF), a "red" RGO association in the RGO district of Brandenburg-Lausitz-Grenzmark-Altmark.

Between 1924 and 1932 Redlich was a city councilor for the KPD, initially in 1924 and 1929 as an unpaid councilor for the city of Brandenburg an der Havel and from 1925 to 1929 at the same time as a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Parliament . On November 17, 1929 he became a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Committee; he remained in this position until 1932. He was elected to the Reichstag in 1930 (5th electoral period) for constituency 4 (Potsdam I); he was a member of parliament until 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power , Redlich was imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp from February 1933 to January 1934 . After his release he was under surveillance by the Gestapo . Redlich died in the Brandenburg hospital as a result of imprisonment in the concentration camp. The official causes of death were tuberculosis and gastric disease.

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Redlich near the Reichstag in Berlin .

literature

Honest, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 361, 624 (short biography).

Web links

Paul Redlich in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 453.

personal data
SURNAME	Honest, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1944
Place of death	Brandenburg-Görden

[1] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 453.