Reinhold Drescher

Reinhold Drescher (born March 13, 1874 in Södrich , Hirschberg district in the Riesengebirge , † March 6, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Reinhold Drescher was born the son of a small farmer. After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a moulder and then worked in the profession he had learned. In addition, he attended the advanced training school and continued his education through self-study. He joined the SPD in 1895, became a union member in the same year and had been a member of the German Former agitation commission since 1897. In the following years he took part in numerous trade union congresses, worked from 1903 to 1906 as a reporter for the Dresdener Volkszeitung and in April 1906 became party secretary for the SPD district Halle-Merseburg, based in Halle (Saale) . In 1914 he became a member of the supervisory board of the consumer association in Halle. He also took part in the First World War as a soldier .

Drescher had been a member of the central party committee of the SPD since 1919 and from 1924 to 1933 Gauleiter of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold for Halle-Merseburg. In 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1933. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933 and the SPD was banned, he had to give up his work as district party secretary. In May 1933 he was taken into " protective custody " for a short time .

After the Second World War , Drescher worked again for the SPD in Halle from 1945 to 1946. In 1958 he fled the Soviet Zone and moved to West Berlin .

literature

• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 317/318.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 318.

Web links

• Reinhold Drescher's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)