Siegmund Crummenerl
Siegmund Crummenerl (in exile he also used the pseudonym: Warrior ) (* 19th February 1892 in Lüdenscheid ; † 23. May 1940 in Paris ) was a member of the Board of Sopade active resistance against Nazism involved from exile.
Life
Crummenerl was a trained engraver and worked in Belgium before the First World War . Between 1914 and 1918 he did military service during the First World War. After that he was an active member of the Socialist Workers Youth . He was sub-district chairman of the organization in Lüdenscheid, Altena and Iserlohn and was a member of the district executive committee in Western Westphalia. Between 1922 and 1924 he was the trade union secretary of the German Metalworkers' Association in Lüdenscheid.
He then became the youth and education secretary of the SPD district of Magdeburg-Anhalt. Later he was the local secretary and treasurer of the district. Crummenerl was a city councilor in Magdeburg from 1929 . He married Martha Bühring , a daughter of Maria Bühring. Since 1929 he was a member of the control commission of the SPD. In 1931 he was a delegate at the Leipzig party congress. Since February 1932 he was the main cashier of the SPD at the Reich level.
After the resignation of the old party executive on April 26, 1933 after the beginning of National Socialist rule , he was also a member of the new executive as treasurer. Together with Otto Wels , Friedrich Stampfer , Paul Hertz , Hans Vogel and others , he was sent to Saarbrücken , which was still free at the time , to set up a branch for the party there. This was criticized as an escape from the remnants of the party leadership around Paul Löbe who remained in Berlin . Only Kurt Schumacher defended this, as the three had gone to Saarbrücken on behalf of the party. From Saarbrücken he then went into exile in Prague .
He was instrumental in saving part of the party's assets. This formed the basis for the work of the Sopade. Crummenerl was a member of its board as treasurer. He initially tended to the positions of the New Beginning group , before he later joined more closely Wels and Vogel. At times he was open to a popular front with the KPD . He went to Paris in 1938/39 to prepare the relocation of the board. He died there of colon cancer just before the German occupation of the city.
literature
- R. Heimann: Crummenerl, Siegmund . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 77
See also
List of expatriates during National Socialism
Web links
- Siegmund Crummenerl in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
- On the history of social democratic exile in Great Britain
- Franz Osterroth / Dieter Schuster: Chronicle of the German Social Democracy . Vol. 2. From the beginning of the Weimar Republic to the end of the Second World War . Bonn, 2001 online version
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crummenerl, Siegmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver, board member of Sopade |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludenscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1940 |
| Place of death | Paris |