Wilhelm Bartz

Wilhelm Bartz (born December 10, 1881 in Tangermünde , † March 18, 1929 in Berlin ) was an initially social democratic and later communist politician.

Bartz was a trained printer and worked as a printer's assistant until 1907. In 1900 he joined the SPD and the free trade unions . In 1903 and 1904 he was a member of the board of the trade union cartel in Bant-Wilhelmshaven . Bartz was full-time editor of the North German Volksstimme from 1907 to 1919, based in Bremerhaven . In 1910 and 1911 he graduated from the SPD's Reich Party School.

In 1919 he joined the USPD and in 1920 the KPD . Between 1919 and 1921 Bartz worked as an editor for the workers' newspaper for the Lower Weser region in Lehe . There he was also a city councilor from 1919 to 1921. He was also a member of the district council.

From 1921 he worked for the international press correspondence in Berlin. Between 1920 and 1924 he was a member of the German Reichstag and in 1922 one of the chairmen of the KPD parliamentary group. From 1924 he worked for the KPD organization department. From 1925 until his death, Bartz was managing director of the party newspaper Rote Fahne . He was also a deputy member of the Prussian State Council until 1929 .

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : 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

• Wilhelm Bartz in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Bartz . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Wilhelm Bartz . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)