Paul Tauber

Hieronymus Paulus ("Paul") Tauber (born April 2, 1892 in Fürth , † March 15, 1943 in Ingolstadt ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament (1927/28).

Life

Tauber, son of a sales representative, worked in this profession after completing a commercial apprenticeship. As a soldier in the First World War , he was taken prisoner by the British and returned to Ingolstadt in early April 1919. He became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), and at the end of 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Tauber, who, according to Georg Fischer, was "the intellectual" foster father "of the Ingolstadt KPD", temporarily headed the local branch of the KPD there. In 1924 Tauber was elected to the city council, but could not accept the mandate for professional reasons. In 1925 he founded the haberdashery wholesaler Tauber & Gründl in Ingolstadt together with his party friend Max Gründl . On October 10, 1927, Tauber succeeded Joseph Schlaffer in the Bavarian state parliament and was a member of the state parliament until the end of the legislative period in 1928.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 was one of the organizers of the resistance in Ingolstadt. He was arrested and held in so-called " protective custody " for a long time . Paul Tauber died of a heart attack on March 15, 1943.

literature

• Georg Fischer : On the upright walk of a socialist. A party worker tells. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0035-3 , pp. 43, 183 and passim.
• Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt (ed.): Ingolstadt under National Socialism - a study. Documentation on contemporary history . Ingolstadt 1995, passim.
• Tauber, 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 .

Web links

• Tauber, Hieronymus Paulus in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History