Paul Schwabe
Paul Schwabe (born January 10, 1890 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † April 3, 1967 in Potsdam ) was a German archivist .
Life
Paul Schwabe was the fourth of twelve children in a working-class family. After attending elementary school, he learned the job of a painter, which he practiced from 1908 to 1925 in the capital of Berlin - interrupted by his service as a soldier in the First World War and subsequent imprisonment. In 1911 Paul Schwabe joined the SPD and the union.
At the general assembly of the Association of Painters and Varnishers, he was elected full-time member of the Board of Directors in 1925, where he specifically took over the Reich Section of Varnishers in Hamburg . At the same time he was responsible for the publishing company belonging to this professional association and the editorial management of the monthly magazine Der Lackierer .
1933, the year the seizure of power , Paul Schwabe was by the Nazis arrested and temporarily detained. Then he hired himself as a sales representative. In 1939, after the outbreak of the Second World War , he was drafted to work in a metal processing company in Hamburg. At the end of the war, his bombed-out family moved from Hamburg to Havelberg to live with relatives. There he was one of the founders of the local SPD group and one of the organizers of the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED . He was also the founder of the local committee of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . Professionally, he worked in Havelberg as city treasurer and councilor for culture and education before he was "elected" mayor for the SED . As such, he organized the millennium in 1948 and gave the magnificent work The Millennial Havelberg. 948-1948 out.
Shortly before the founding of the GDR in 1949, he took over the office of personal advisor to Otto Meier, President of the Brandenburg State Parliament . He worked as such until the state parliament was dissolved in 1952 . In October 1952 he went to the General Directorate of the State Archives, which later became the State Archives Administration of the GDR, where he worked until he was 70 in 1960. He died in Potsdam in 1967.
Honors
literature
- Eberhard Schetelich: Paul Schwabe † . In: Archive Messages , Vol. 17 (1967), No. 3, p. 113, ISSN 0004-038X
Individual evidence
- ^ The magazine was published between 1923 and 1933.
- ↑ The millennial Havelberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwabe, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg on the Warta |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1967 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |