Paul Taubadel

Paul Taubadel as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Paul Taubadel (born October 29, 1875 in Terpitzsch , † March 2, 1937 in Görlitz ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

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Youth and Political Beginnings (1875 to 1906)

Taubadel was born in 1875 as the son of a laborer and a housewife. From 1882 to 1890 he attended elementary school in Görlitz . He then completed an apprenticeship as a mason from 1891 to 1894. During his apprenticeship, he joined the trade union and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After completing his apprenticeship, Taubadel went on the journeyman's hike, which was common at the time. Until 1906 he worked in various German cities. In Görlitz he became a union official and chairman of the SPD district of Görlitz. He also held office as an unpaid Gau Board member of the Gaus Görlitz. In 1904 Taubadel married the saleswoman Emma Maria Elisabeth Mattusch.

Trade unionist and editor (1906 to 1933)

Taubadel first appeared publicly as a trade unionist in 1906 when he took over the leadership of a bricklayers' strike in Bautzen and Görlitz. In Chemnitz Taubadel applied for the post of local clerk in the local bricklayer's organization.

In the SPD Taubadel was active at this time mainly as editor of the local party newspaper of the SPD, the Görlitzer Volkszeitung . The later Chancellor Hermann Müller acted as editor-in-chief of the Volkszeitung , with whom Taubadel worked closely for several years and also established close personal ties. A communist publication from the 1960s describes Taubadel as the “right hand man” of Müller at this time, and also judges that Taubadel was a “clean, decent person, but absolutely right-wing”.

After Hermann Müller was appointed to the party executive committee of the SPD, Taubadel was appointed the new editor-in-chief of the Volkszeitung at Müller's suggestion . Taubadel took up this position, which he carried out until 1933, on October 6, 1906. In the years that followed, Taubadel systematically expanded the infrastructure of his newspaper: in 1909 he acquired a plot of land in Görlitzer Luisenstrasse, where he set up the headquarters of the editorial office. In the same year he set up his own printing press for the newspaper, so that the Volkszeitung could be printed in Göritz itself since March 1910 and no longer in Dresden, as was previously the case. The Görlitzer Volkszeitung company was rounded off by the establishment of the Arbeiterdruckerei cooperative and the Görlitzer Volkszeitung savings association . One of the personal consequences of Taubadel's work as an editor was that he was sentenced to several prison terms during the imperial era.

From 1907 Taubadel took part in the SPD party congresses as a delegate. In total, he held nine delegate functions until 1927.

Political mandate holder (1910 to 1932)

In 1910 Taubadel received his first political mandate when he became a member of the city council of Görlitz. He was a member of this until 1924.

In January 1912 Taubadel was elected to the Reichstag as the SPD candidate for constituency 9 (Liegnitz) , to which he initially belonged until November 1918. From 1912 he was also a member of the district administrator of Görlitz / Lauban . After the November Revolution of 1918 Taubadel took over the management of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Görlitz. In December of the same year he was delegated to the 1st Council Congress in Berlin.

In February 1919 Taubadel was appointed Undersecretary of State for the Reich Post Office. In the same month he became a member of the Weimar National Assembly , in which he represented constituency 11 (Liegnitz). In June 1920 he entered the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 9 (Liegnitz) , to which he was to belong until July 1932 without interruption. After the constituencies were renumbered on the occasion of the Reichstag election in May 1924 , Taubadel represented constituency 8 (Liegnitz) from 1924 to 1932. 1921 was together with Otto Wels chairman of the Reich Party Congress of the SPD in Görlitz ( Görlitzer Party Congress ).

Final years (1933 to 1937)

In 1933 Taubadel, who had suffered from asthma for a long time , became a pensioner. The Görlitzer Volkszeitung was banned by the National Socialists in the same year. Taubadel died in Görlitz in 1937, where he was also buried.

In Görlitz, Paul-Taubadel-Straße, which has had his name again since 1990, is a reminder of him.

Web links

• Paul Taubadel in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED: Workers' unit wins over militarists , 1960, p. 100.