Hans Ziegler (politician)
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Hans Ziegler (9 March 1877 – 19 March 1957) was a Socialist politician and trade unionist. He was a founder of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD).
Life
Ziegler was born in Henfenfeld in 1877. Ziegler learned the lathe trade after attending primary school. As a young man he joined the German Metal Workers' Association (DMV) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After the end of his first marriage, from which a daughter emerged, Ziegler married Anna Strauss in 1913, who, like him, embarked on a political career in the SPD.
During the
In 1930 Ziegler was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 7 (Breslau). Together with five party friends, he was expelled from the SPD in September 1931 after repeated breaches of parliamentary group discipline. He then took part in the founding of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). In this Ziegler acted as a trade union expert, a status that was due to the fact that he was practically the only prominent trade union representative in the ranks of the SAPD, in which he joined the left- wing, social-democratic-pacifist wing around Anna Siemsen. Ziegler's union activity cause him problems in his new party. In particular, he was accused of showing too cautious a course as a delegate to the trade union conference towards the DMV leadership, which was dominated by the SPD.
In March 1933, one month after the
He died on 19 March 1957 in Nuremberg.
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