Robert Klausmann
Robert Klausmann , born in Christian Klausmann (born May 1, 1896 in Essen , † December 27, 1972 in Karlsruhe ) was a German political activist ( KPD ).
Life and activity
After attending school, Klausmann hired himself out as a leather worker in Weinheim / Bergstrasse. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier at the front . After the war he lived again as a worker in Weinheim.
In May 1920, Klausmann joined the KPD. In 1922 he took over a public electoral office for the first time when he became a member of the citizens' committee in Weinheim for his party. In 1926 he was elected to the Mannheim district council . Around 1927 Klausmann headed the Weinheim administration office of the leather workers' association , at the time the only union administration office in the Republic of Baden with a communist majority.
Since 1929 Klausmann was a member of the state parliament of Baden as a member of the KPD . In the same year he was on the XII. Party congress of the KPD elected to the central committee of the KPD.
In 1930 Klausmann took part in a trade union training course for the KPD in Berlin. He then became secretary for trade union issues in the district management of the KPD Baden. From April to December 1932 Klausmann acted as Polleiter in the KPD district of Baden-Palatinate. His successor in this position was Franz Doll . Before 1933, Klausmann was a works council for the revolutionary trade union opposition at Freudenberg .
After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Klausmann was arrested. At the request of the regional chairman of the NSBO , Fritz Plattner , he was removed from the works council in April 1933; in November 1933 Klausmann was fired from Freudenberg. In October 1933 he managed to escape from the Kislau concentration camp and to escape abroad. He settled in France, where he did border work for the KPD until 1939: during this time, under the code name Oskar Fass , he headed the KPD border base in Strasbourg. In this position he organized, among other things, the importation of anti-Nazi writings into the Reich, border crossings and the escape of like-minded people.
The National Socialist police officers classified him as an enemy of the state: on February 1, 1937, he was officially expatriated . In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, were to be located and arrested with special priority by the occupying forces following special SS units.
Given the German occupation of the country in 1940, he moved to southern France. During the war he belonged to the Resistance under the alias Jacques .
After the end of the Second World War, Klausmann returned to Germany in 1945, where he rejoined the KPD. In 1946 he became regional director for work and social welfare in Karlsruhe.
In 1946, as a representative of the KPD, Klausmann was a member of the Provisional People's Representation in Württemberg-Baden and of the state constitutional assembly of this area. From 1948 to 1950 he was a replacement for Willy Boepple in the first Württemberg-Baden state parliament . In 1948 Klausmann was dismissed from his post in Karlsruhe. He was then for a short time director of social insurance in Stuttgart and then for a long time party secretary of the KPD in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, before retiring from politics in the late 1950s.
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Web links
- Robert Klausmann in the memorial book of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- Speeches by Robert Klausmann in the Baden State Parliament in the digital collections of the Baden State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Kurz: Enemy Brothers in the Southwest. Social democrats and communists in Baden and Württemberg from 1928 to 1933. (= Berlin historical studies, volume 23) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08524-8 , p. 40.
- ↑ a b Joachim Scholtyseck : Freudenberg. A family company in the empire, democracy and dictatorship. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68853-9 , pp. 99, 488.
- ^ Entry on Klausmann on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klausmann, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klausmann, Christian (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political activist (KPD) and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1972 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |