Philipp Roth (politician)

Philipp Roth (born December 12, 1899 in Weibersbrunn ; † April 21, 1971 ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

The machine worker Roth had to take part in the First World War as a soldier in 1917/18 . In 1919 he joined the German Metalworkers' Association and in 1920 attended the mechanical engineering school in Duisburg . He then worked as a machinist in Duisburg. In 1923 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1928 he worked in the Berzelius metal works in Duisburg, where he was also chairman of the works council . From February 1928 he was a member of the KPD sub-district leadership in Duisburg. In June 1929 Roth took part on the XII. Party conference of the KPD in Berlin-Wedding . In 1931 he was editor of the Westphalian Fighter. In April 1932, Roth was elected to the Prussian state parliament in the Düsseldorf-West constituency. From mid-1932 he acted as party secretary in Bielefeld .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, in April 1933 he became secretary of the illegal sub-district leadership of the KPD in Hamm . There he was arrested on the night of May 7th to 8th, 1933. After his pre-trial detention in Recklinghausen , Essen and Leipzig , the Reichsgericht sentenced him on June 1, 1934 to two and a half years in prison. After serving his sentence, Roth was not released, but taken to the Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . Roth was released in April 1939 because of "serious symptoms" on the occasion of the amnesty for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday . He then worked as a machinist in Munich .

In 1945 he became a member of the KPD again. Together with Gustav Niebuhr and Aloys Schweins , he was editor of the KPD organ Volks-Echo for Westphalia and Lippe. From February 1946 to the end of 1947 he worked as a party employee in the district leadership in Bielefeld. At the end of 1947, Roth retired for health reasons, but continued to work for the KPD.

In 1959 he was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment for "active participation in the banned KPD", which he had to take up in July 1962.

literature

Roth, Philipp . 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 .

Individual evidence

^ Aiga Seywald: The press of the social movements 1918-1933. Left parties, trade unions, workers' culture movement, anarchism, youth movement, peace movement, life reform, expressionism . Klartext, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-88474-169-1 , p. 368.
↑ Sperling's magazine and newspaper address book: Handbuch der Deutschen Presse (1947), p. 111.
^ From Schabrod to Augstein: The balance sheet of 22 months of judicial terror: 642 democrats and opponents of nuclear war tried and imprisoned. A documentation . Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, Berlin [1963], p. 69.

personal data
SURNAME	Roth, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdL Prussia, resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weibersbrunn
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1971

[1] Aiga Seywald: The press of the social movements 1918-1933. Left parties, trade unions, workers' culture movement, anarchism, youth movement, peace movement, life reform, expressionism . Klartext, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-88474-169-1 , p. 368.

[2] Sperling's magazine and newspaper address book: Handbuch der Deutschen Presse (1947), p. 111.

[3] From Schabrod to Augstein: The balance sheet of 22 months of judicial terror: 642 democrats and opponents of nuclear war tried and imprisoned. A documentation . Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, Berlin [1963], p. 69.