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Paul Schlecht (born September 26, 1882 in Rixdorf , † probably 1947 in Berlin ) was a German communist politician.

Life

Coming from a Berlin working-class family, Schlecht completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and later worked as a toolmaker . SPD member since 1900, Schlecht belonged to the inner-party opposition to the party's civil peace policy and joined the USPD in 1917 and was a member of the Revolutionary Obleute . In 1920 he became a member of the KPD , in which he belonged to the left wing, and had been a member of the Berlin district leadership since 1921. In 1924 he became a candidate for the party's central committee. In the same year, Schlecht was elected to the Reichstag in May (to which he belonged until 1928) and took on tasks in the management of various party districts. Re-elected to the central leadership of the party in 1925, he stood before the Reichsgericht together with Arkadi Maslow and Anton Grylewicz in autumn 1925 ; his proceedings were discontinued due to an amnesty .

In the following years, as the left wing around Maslow and Ruth Fischer was ousted from power by the new leadership under Ernst Thälmann , Schlecht was expelled from the KPD in April 1927 as one of the last prominent figures on the left wing then joined the group of Left Communists in the Reichstag. At the beginning of 1928, Schlecht was one of the co-founders of the Lenin League , which he - together with Fischer and Maslow - left after a few months. After losing his seat in the Reichstag in the summer of 1928, Schlecht withdrew from politics and opened an inn in Berlin, which also served as a meeting point and meeting place for various left-wing groups (with whom Schlecht continued to sympathize).

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SURNAME Bad Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist politician, KPD, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1947
Place of death Berlin