Richard Schnetter

Richard Schnetter (born March 5, 1884 in Wüstenahorn near Coburg , † 1943 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / KPD ) and editor . He was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

Schnetter learned the profession of lithographer by 1902 . He then worked in this profession in Frankfurt am Main , Leipzig and Stuttgart . Later he was manager in Darmstadt .

In 1903 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Schnetter was chairman of the Coburg SPD from 1907 to 1909 . From October 1910 he was a full-time functionary and local editor of the Thuringian People's Friend in Sonneberg , then editor of this newspaper in Erfurt . In the First World War he served as a soldier. He joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and became the editor of the stands in Erfurt. Together with Emil Höllein and Otto Geithner , Schnetter was one of the left forces in the leadership of the Thuringian USPD. With the left USPD, Schnetter joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) at the end of 1920. He was a delegate at the split party convention of the USPD in October 1920 in Halle (Saale) and the unification party convention with the KPD in Berlin (December 4-7, 1920).

Until June 1921 he was secretary or poll manager of the KPD district of Greater Thuringia , then until 1924 editor-in-chief of the class struggle in Halle. In 1921 he moved into the Prussian state parliament for the KPD. The 8th party congress of the KPD in Leipzig (January 28 to February 1, 1923) appointed Schnetter to the editorial committee. From 1924 to 1927 he was editor of the Echo des Ostens in Königsberg and in 1927 of the tribune in Magdeburg. In the same year Schnetter moved to Berlin and became editor of Die Welt am Abend there .

Since Schnetter was one of the so-called Compromisers , he was no longer given a leading position from 1930.

Fonts (selection)

together with Paul Schwenk (ed.): 4 years of the Weimar coalition in Prussia. Handbook of the Communist Fraction of the Prussian Landtag . Internationaler Arbeiter-Verlag, Berlin 1928.
Communist community politics. The executive branch of the Comintern and the Weddinger party congress of the KPD on local politics . Zeitschriften-Verlag Stern, Berlin [around 1929].

literature

Christa Hempel-Küter: The communist press and the workers' correspondent movement in the Weimar Republic. The example of “Hamburger Volkszeitung” . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-631-41832-9 , p. 368.

Schnetter, Richard . 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

↑ Horst Müller: About the foundation of the Communist Party of Germany and its development into a revolutionary mass party in Thuringia 1919/1920 . In: Contributions to the history of Thuringia , Volume 1 (1968), pp. 22–52 (here, p. 47).
↑ Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series , Volume 29), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 526.

personal data
SURNAME	Schnetter, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD, USPD, KPD), MdL Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Desert maple
DATE OF DEATH	1943
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Horst Müller: About the foundation of the Communist Party of Germany and its development into a revolutionary mass party in Thuringia 1919/1920 . In: Contributions to the history of Thuringia , Volume 1 (1968), pp. 22–52 (here, p. 47).

[2] Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series , Volume 29), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 526.