Paul Weyer

Paul Weyer (born April 18, 1887 in Berlin ; † October 12, 1943 there ) was a communist politician and union official.

Life

The trained locksmith joined the SPD in 1910 and took on various functions in the German Metalworkers Association (DMV). In 1917 Weyer joined the newly founded USPD and was one of the Revolutionary Obleuten in 1918/19 and was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Berlin during the November Revolution . In 1920 Weyer belonged to the left wing of the USPD, which merged with the KPD . Within the KPD, Weyer belonged to the “left” wing around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow , took part as a delegate at the seventh and ninth party congresses in 1919 and 1923, and in 1922 became a member of the district leadership of the “left district” of Berlin-Brandenburg.

In 1923 Weyer was excluded from the DMV and founded an independent communist metalworkers' association, initially Union Metall , from March 1924 German Industry Association, Gruppe Metall , which he headed. After a reorientation of the KPD leadership around Fischer and Maslow, which now declared the dissolution of independent communist unions and the participation in ADGB associations to the party line, Weyer was in September 1924 together with Wilhelm Schumacher and Paul Kaiser on the charge of "breach of discipline" and "Sabotage" against strong protests within the Berlin party organization excluded from the KPD; In this context, Weyer described the KPD as “dictatorial” and “worse than the SPD”. Together with other trade unionists who were excluded from the KPD, the German Industrial Association (DIV) led by Weyer was now constituted .

Towards the end of the 1920s, Weyer approached the SPD again and was active in various trade union areas, after the NSDAP came to power in 1933 he was employed again as a metal worker.

literature

• Otto Langels: The Revolutionary Industrial Associations. In: Archives for the history of resistance and work. Book 10, 1989, pp. 41-60.
• Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2. Frankfurt / Main 1969, Vol. 1, pp. 98f and Vol. 2, pp. 341f.
• Weyer, 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 .