Paul Voigt (politician)

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Paul Voigt (born June 17, 1876 in Zeitz , † December 1944 in Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD).

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After attending primary school , Voigt completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1890 to 1893. Then he went on a journey .

From 1914 to 1918 Voigt took part in the First World War. From 1919 to 1921 Voigt was an honorary secretary in the office of the Niederbarnim district committee . Later he was chairman of the Berlin-Buchholz municipal council . From 1921 Voigt was party secretary of the SPD in the Meiningen sub- district of the Greater Thuringia district association. In addition, there was his membership in the city council of Meiningen.

In the election of September 1930 Voigt was elected to the fifth Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . In the July 1932 election he lost his mandate again.

During the Nazi regime, Voigt lived most of the time in Erfurt, Thuringia . In April 1936 he was arrested and held in Lichtenburg concentration camp. After this concentration camp was closed, Voigt was in " protective custody " in the Buchenwald concentration camp from August 1937 . After his release in January 1939, he lived illegally in Berlin. After July 20, 1944, Voigt was arrested by the Gestapo as part of the " Operation Grid " . He died in Berlin in December 1944, according to official information by “suicide”, but research literature mostly assumes that he was murdered by the Gestapo .

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

In Berlin since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Voigt near the Reichstag .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 606.
  2. ↑ Hans-Rainer Sanvoss: resistance in Steglitz and Zehlendorf , 1986, p 64; Schumacher, MdR , p. 606.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH December 1944
Place of death Berlin