Paul Serotzki

Paul Serotzki (born March 27, 1887 in Sopot , † after 1950) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and trade unionist . He was a member of the People's Day of the Free City of Danzig .

Life

Serotzki, son of a working class family, was employed as a work boy and dock worker. In 1905 he joined the Christian trade unions and in 1912 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1915 he served as a soldier in the First World War .

Then he was employed again as a dock worker and in 1919 became section head of the International Seafarers' Union in the port of Danzig. In 1921 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), in 1923 the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his expulsion from the port workers' union in 1929, Serotzki led the RGO port workers. In 1930 he was elected to the People's Day in Danzig, of which he was a member of the KPD until 1937. Serotzki took part in July / August 1935 at the VII and last World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow and in October 1935 at the " Brussels Conference " of the KPD in Kunzewo near Moscow.

From 1935 Serotzki was unemployed and in June 1937 was taken into so-called “ protective custody ”. After his release in October 1937, he and Otto Langnau made a written declaration about the break with the KPD. Both were accepted as interns in the NSDAP parliamentary group in the Volkstag. In 1938 Serotzki was employed again as a dock worker and was drafted into duty at the Danzig-Langfuhr airfield in October 1941 . As a former communist member of parliament, he was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp in August 1944 .

After the end of the war, he came to Hoppenrade near Güstrow in Mecklenburg on an “Antifa transport” in August 1945 . In April 1946 he became a member of the SED and from autumn 1946 acted as mayor of Hoppenrade.

When investigating victims of fascism , Serotzki was stripped of his OdF status in 1950 because he "voluntarily gave up his parliamentary mandate in October 1937". He protested against this decision and tried various witnesses who should prove his move from 1937 as "tactics of the Trojan horse ".

Most recently, Serotzki was employed in a Rostock shipyard canteen.

literature

• Serotzki, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 574.