Wilhelm Deisen

Wilhelm "Willy" Deisen (born April 7, 1887 in Bremen , † February 23, 1962 in Bremen) was a German communist politician.

Life

The son of a cigar maker learned the profession of painter, passed the master's examination and joined the SPD . During the First World War, Deisen joined the “ Bremen Left Radicals ” and the International Communists of Germany (IKD) that emerged from them and has been a member of the KPD since it was founded . During the years 1918 to 1922 Deisen, who was working at AG Weser at that time , was considered a leading revolutionary activist at the Bremen shipyards. In 1920 Deisen became KPD state chairman in Bremen and was elected to the Bremen citizenship in 1922 and to the central committee of his party in 1923 . In 1923 Deisen, who within the party was one of the supporters of the “right” wing around Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer , also took over the chairmanship of the Northwest party district. After the party congress in Frankfurt in 1924, however, after the installation of the new leadership around the "party links" Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow, his position within the party deteriorated . Elected to the Reichstag in May of that year , he had to renounce his mandate in favor of Rudolf Lindau , after disputes with the new district manager Eugen Eppstein , he was expelled from the party in January 1925 together with his fellow party member Karl Jannack and over 20 other members.

After the Fischer-Maslow leadership was dismissed at the end of 1925, Deisen headed the Northwest District of Rote Aid from 1926 and was re-elected to Bremen's citizenship in 1927. After the Wittorf affair and the renewed ultra-left turn of the KPD under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann , Deisen, who had been increasingly critical of the KPD's course since his re-election to the citizenry, joined his political companion and brother-in-law Adolf Ehlers in January 1929 expelled from the party for the second time. He now joined the Communist Party opposition (KPD-O) around Brandler and Thalheimer and, together with their minority, switched to the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD) in 1932 .

From 1929 onwards again as a master painter and also artistically active in the Bremen Kunstverein , Deisen rejoined the KPD in 1945, but was no longer involved in party life there and maintained close relationships with Brandler and the workers' policy group . Bad health due to a heart condition, he spent the rest of his life in retirement in Bremen from 1948.

literature

• Deisen, Wilhelm . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .