Wilhelm Schwan

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Wilhelm Schwan (born February 6, 1884 in Steele , † February 2, 1960 in East Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD, KPD, SED).

Life

Wilhelm Schwan was born in 1884 as the son of a miner. He attended elementary school . Then he earned his living like his father as a miner. In 1912 Schwan became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , in 1917 he switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany . In December 1920 he finally joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the party, Schwan was initially close to the Ruth Fischer group . As a functionary, he took over the post of party secretary in the management of the KPD sub-district of Duisburg. He was later elected to the Politburo. He was also a union secretary.

In the Reichstag election in May 1924 , Schwan was elected as a candidate of the KPD for constituency 23 (Düsseldorf-West) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged until May 1928. At the end of 1926 Schwan was expelled from the KPD, and solidarity by declaring the 1000 was unsuccessful. From then on, Schwan assumed his mandate in the Reichstag for the group of Left Communists .

After retiring from active politics, he worked in the advertising business and as a sales representative, before the Nazis shut down his business as a “camouflaged KPD company” in February 1933. Schwan was arrested and sent to a concentration camp for several months. In 1935 he emigrated to the Saar area and worked there again as a sales representative. After Schwan was imprisoned again for four months in Berlin in 1938 , he was drafted into military service during the Second World War .

In May 1945 Schwan was re-admitted to the KPD and from June headed the Berlin-Lichtenberg Housing Office . On April 26, 1949, he was expelled from the party, which had since been reunited to form the SED . After his death in February 1960, his widow fled to West Germany in March of that year.

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  1. Weber / Herbst: German Communists. 2004, p. 722.