Paul Suhr
Paul Suhr (born September 6, 1902 in Königsberg , † August 15, 1933 near Munich ) was a German politician and KPD functionary.
After attending elementary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship. From 1921 to 1928 he worked as a salesman, warehouse keeper and branch manager at the Königsberg consumer association . As early as 1922 he joined the KPD and its youth association KJVD . In this he worked, among other things, as head of the local branch in Königsberg, later as political secretary of the East Prussia district management of the KJVD. In 1929 he attended the International Lenin School in Moscow . After his return he worked as a full-time functionary in East Prussia and Hamburg . At the beginning of 1932 he took over the management of the Halle district organization as political secretary -Merseburg . In April 1932 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until the end of the fourth legislative period in 1933.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis on 30 January 1933 Suhr participated in the last joint meeting of the leading Communist Party politicians in the sports store Ziegenhals part in Berlin. Then he organized the transition of party work into illegality, first in his area of responsibility Halle-Merseburg, later in the area of southern Bavaria . There he was probably killed while working near Munich. There is no more detailed information about his further fate. In Halle, the former Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ( Paul-Berck-Straße during the Nazi era ) was named after him.
literature
- Paul Suhr . In: German resistance fighters. 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Vol. 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 323-325
- Erika Kücklich: Suhr, Paul . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 450–451
- Hilde Fehr. Otto Jacob: Paul Suhr . Edited by the Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement at the district leadership of the SED. Haale 1980 (On the history of the labor movement in the Halle 14 district)
- Suhr, 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 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Suhr, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1933 |
| Place of death | near Munich |