Wilhelm Dantz

Wilhelm Dantz (born July 21, 1886 in Hanover , † August 28, 1948 in Bremen ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and from 1921 to 1924 and 1926/27 a member of the Bremen Parliament .

Life

Dantz learned after the elementary school the profession of carpenter and came even before the First World War in the German Social Democratic Party , a (SPD). In 1919 he became a founding member of the KPD and chairman of the Bremen-Hasbergen branch.

In 1919/20 Dantz was involved in the violent clashes within the KPD, left it temporarily and in 1920 became a member of the KPD split-off Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) and later its split-off General Workers Union - Unity Organization (AAUE). In 1921 Dantz returned to the KPD and became chairman of the KPD Bremen. In the same year Dantz was a delegate at the 7th party congress of the KPD in Jena .

From 1921 to 1924 Dantz belonged to the KPD faction of the Bremen citizenship and was a full-time editor of the Bremen party newspaper. In October 1924 he was expelled from the KPD as a deviator, but after the dismissal and expulsion of KPD functionaries Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow and Ernst Thälmann's takeover, he was accepted back into the party. Dantz became a full-time functionary again and was elected to Bremen's citizenship for the second time in 1926.

At the end of 1928 Dantz was again excluded from the KPD as a deviator and returned to the SPD in June 1929, but remained a simple member there. After that, Dantz no longer appeared politically and worked again as a carpenter.

Carl Dantz (1884–1967), educator , school reformer and writer, was his older brother.

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 ).