Paul Rehbach

Paul Rehbach (born February 26, 1874 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ; † March 17, 1934 in Göppingen ) was a socialist politician.

Life

After completing his apprenticeship, the trained brush maker went to the roller mill and subsequently settled in Württemberg , where he joined the SPD around 1900 . During the First World War he joined the USPD , founded in 1917 , where he belonged to the left wing, which merged with the KPD in late 1920 .

In 1922 he was elected to the Göppingen municipal council for the KPD, and in 1924 also to the state parliament of Württemberg . Since Rehbach was close to the “right” wing around Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer in the context of the factional disputes in the KPD , he was not re-elected as a candidate in the 1928 regional elections. In 1929 he left the KPD and in 1931 joined the newly founded SAPD , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the Reichstag elections in November 1932 at number four on the Reich list.

After the NSDAP came to power , Rehbach was arrested and died in the spring of 1934, although it is unclear whether he was in captivity at that time.

literature

• Short biography in: Hermann Weber : The change of German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 254.
• Rehbach, 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 .
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 703 .