Wilhelm Repschläger
Wilhelm Repschläger (born March 17, 1870 in Strasburg , Uckermark , † January 1945 in Berlin ) was a German craftsman (carpenter) and politician (SPD, KPD).
Live and act
Repschläger attended the community school in his hometown. Then he learned the carpentry trade from 1884 to 1887 and attended the advanced training school. After traveling the German Reich for a few years , he settled in Berlin in 1893. In 1894 he joined the trade union movement and in 1897 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). As an active member of the carpenter's association, he has been politically active since the turn of the century by performing voluntary functions.
When the Social Democratic Party split over the question of war credits and war politics during the First World War and split into two new parties in 1917 - the right-wing SPD / MSPD , which supported the war credits, and the left-wing USPD , which rejected the war credits - Repschläger closed join the USPD. In 1920 the USPD dissolved again. Some of their supporters returned to the SPD, and some switched to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). As a representative of the left wing of the USPD, Repschläger joined the KPD.
In 1921 Repschläger became chairman of the union of carpenters in Berlin, the central association of carpenters in Berlin and the surrounding area, and at the same time their full-time secretary. From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the Berlin Reichstag for two years for the KPD as a member of constituency 2 (Berlin). Although only fifty years old, he was the oldest male MP in the above-average young parliamentary group of the KPD and, after Clara Zetkin, the second oldest MP ever.
In November 1930 Repschläger was tried for high treason . The reason for this charge was that some articles in a KPD newspaper, for which he officially signed as the responsible editor, were rated by the public prosecutor as highly treasonable. After it turned out at the hearing that Repschläger was only involved as the seat editor of the newspaper he ran and did not understand anything about editorial work, he was acquitted. After that he no longer emerged politically.
literature
- Repschläger, 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 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Repschläger in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Weber : The change of German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD during the Weimar period . EVA, Frankfurt / M. 1969, p. 258.
- ^ Ulrich Borsdorf : Hans Böckler. Work and life of a trade unionist from 1875 to 1945 (series of publications by the Hans Böckler Foundation ; Vol. 10). Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1982, p. 256, ISBN 3-7663-0497-6 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Repschläger, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPF, KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasburg (Uckermark) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin |