Karl Wiedemann (born April 18, 1904, in Augsburg) was a German politician.[1]
As of early 1933 Wiedemann was a city councilor in Augsburg, representing the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).[2] He was the secretary and the Bavaria gauleiter of the International Union of Victims of Wars and Labour (IBOKA), an organization mobilizing financial support for imprisoned workers and their families.[2][3] After the National Socialist seizure of power, Wiedemann remained politically active.[2] At least until July 1933, he continued to lead activities of IBOKA.[2] Wiedemann was detained at the Dachau concentration camp.[4] However his brother Matthias Wiedemann, gau auditor and a local NSDAP official, managed to secure his release.[4] Karl Wiedemann was later employed in the Augsburg city administration.[4] In December 1934 Wiedemann's typewriter and mimeograph machine were seized in a police raid.[2]
At the end of the Second World War Wiedemann was part of the nucleus that rebuilt the KPD organization in Augsburg.[5] In the June 1946 Bavarian state election he was elected to the Bavarian Constituent State Assembly, as a KPD candidate in the Swabia constituency.[1] During his tenure, he served as the 4th secretary of the Presidium of the State Assembly.[1][6]
Wiedemann died in Augsburg on July 16, 1981.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c d e Elke Fröhlich-Broszat; Anton Grossmann (19 March 2018). Herrschaft und Gesellschaft im Konflikt: Teil B. De Gruyter. pp. 151, 157. ISBN 978-3-486-70836-3.
- ^ A. L. Merson (1986). Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany. Lawrence & Wishart, Limited. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-391-03366-5.
- ^ a b c Bernhard Gotto (16 December 2009). Nationalsozialistische Kommunalpolitik: Administrative Normalität und Systemstabilisierung durch die Augsburger Stadtverwaltung 1933-1945. Oldenbourg Verlag. pp. 107, 424. ISBN 978-3-486-59636-6.
- ^ Markus Pöhlmann (1995). Kellerwohnung und Persilschein: Kriegsende und Neuanfang in Augsburg nach 1945. Ed. Storia, c/o M. Pöhlmann. p. 51. ISBN 978-3-00-000039-3.
- ^ Jens Ulrich Klocksin (1994). Kommunisten im Parlament: die KPD in Regierungen und Parlamenten der westdeutschen Besatzungszonen und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1945-1956). Verlag im Hof. p. 188. ISBN 978-3-925689-04-8.