Werner Möller

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Werner Möller ( pseudonym : Werner Stauffacher , born February 6, 1888 in Barmen , † January 11, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Werner Möller was the son of a shoemaker . He worked as a plumber , became involved in social democracy early on and published his first literary works in social democratic newspapers (e.g. Freie Presse , Barmen). From 1914 he was a staunch opponent of the war and was one of the supporters of the radical left SPD politician Julian Borchardt . In 1916 Möller was sentenced to nine months in prison for distributing anti-war leaflets. After being a leading member of the left-wing grouping International Communists of Germany in Berlin, for whose organ workers' policy he had contributed, he took part in the November Revolution in 1918 and, as a Berlin delegate of the International Communists of Germany , took part in the founding party conference of the KPD . At the beginning of January 1919, Möller was one of the leading figures in the occupation of the Vorwärts publishing house . Berliner Volksblatt. Organ of the revolutionary workers of Greater Berlin during the January uprising ; during this time he acted as editor of the paper. He was murdered together with six other parliamentarians , including Wolfgang Fernbach , on orders from Gustav Noske . from members of the Freikorpseinheit Regiment Potsdam His wife Klara Möller reported in a letter to Die Republik. Daily newspaper for the German workers' councils :

“My husband was also taken to the Dragoon Barracks as a prisoner and there he became a victim of the Soldateska. [...] The death by shooting would have been milder, but my husband's injuries are such that there can be no question of shooting. In order to convince you, I have to follow up more precisely. My husband only got one shot in the upper left side, then a wide cut wound in the chest [...] then a large wound in the left side of the neck and finally the lower left half of the face is hit, so that the ear is almost gone. [...] In passing, I want to say that the dead person was completely looted on top of that ”.

Werner Möller was buried on January 25, 1919 in the memorial of the socialists .

Werner Möller wrote poems that in 1913 were mainly in the tradition of social democratic workers' poetry . In his last poems "The German Revolution", "The Revolution" and "Communism" he accused the "betrayal" of the revolution by the SPD leaders, and turned against the "harmful ideologues" of parliamentarism.

"But some dreams have melted away / Despite all that, the tree of freedom / Will still bear fruit!"

- Werner Möller. In: The Young Guard . Volume 1, 1919, No. 24, p. 7.

Works

  • Storm chant! Proletarian poems . Self-published, Barmen 1913.
  • War and struggle. Poems . Hand drawings by Heinrich Vogeler . Chemnitz printing and publishing company, Chemnitz 1919.
  • Storm song, war and battle. Poems . Edited and introduced by Mathilde Dau. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977 (= text editions on early socialist literature in Germany, Volume 17)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The other members of parliament were: Walter Heise (blacksmith, 24 years old), Werner Möller (plumber, 30 years old), Karl Grubusch (mechanic, 28 years old), Erich Kluge (coachman, 23 years old), Arthur Schöttler (toolmaker, 27 years old) , Paul Wackermann (locksmith, 29 years old). (Joachim Hoffmann: Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German National Cemetery . The New Berlin, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-360-00959-2 , p. 233 f.)
  2. ^ Joachim Hoffmann: Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-360-00959-2 , p. 64.
  3. ↑ Illustrated History of the German Revolution . Berlin 1929, p. 288.
  4. ^ Joachim Hoffmann: Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-360-00959-2 , p. 233.
  5. ^ Lexicon of socialist German literature , p. 364.
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stauffacher, Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1919
Place of death Berlin