Gustav Sobottka
Gustav Sobottka ( born July 12, 1886 in Turowen (district of Johannesburg, East Prussia ); † March 6, 1953 in Berlin) was a German politician.
Life
Gustav Sobottka was a son of peasants couple Adam and Auguste Sobottka. The family settled in 1895 after Röhlinghausen (today most southwest suburb of Herne ) in the Ruhr area. The Sobottkas belonged to the strictly religious " bigots " to. 1901 Gustav was confirmed in the same year and began working in the mining industry. In 1909 he married the maid Henriette ( Jettchen ) Schantowski. The couple had a daughter and two sons. From August 1914 to November 1918 took Gustav Sobottka in the First World War.
1910 Sobottka joined the SPD; his wife followed him in 1912. Later he co-founded the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and joined the end of 1920 the Communist Party of Germany. In addition Sobottka was a founding member and leader of the group mining in the KPD -affiliated union Union of manual and intellectual workers whose entry into ADGB 1925 he initially resisted, but then brought about together with Anton Jadasch.
From 1921 to 1932 he was a member of the Communist Party in the Prussian parliament and head of the Mining Industry Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. After his expulsion from the free trade union miners association in 1928, he belonged in 1929 to the founders and board members of the RGO. In 1930 he became Secretary General of the International Committee of the miners, in 1932 no longer positioned as a candidate for the Prussian state elections, he took a job in the apparatus of the Red Aid. He worked by the power of the Nazi Party, first in the illegality, then the Saarland as well as in Paris. In the spring of 1935, the Red Trade Union International summoned him to Moscow. Towards the end of 1935 also reached Jettchen Sobottka and the youngest son of Gustav over Paris in the Soviet Union.
The older son Bernhard remained in Germany. He was temporarily in the concentration camp and died, also from the effects of confinement, in the summer of 1945. Gustav jun., The first was trained in Moscow, was arrested there as a member of an alleged Hitler Youth Organization in February 1938. He died in September 1940 while in custody.
In 1945 Gustav Sobottka, which in connection with the arrest of his son temporarily his union work had to give, from the Soviet Union in the Soviet zone of occupation as leader of a Communist Party group in Mecklenburg (now Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania), the group Sobottka back, compare Ulbricht Group.
From 1947 to 1948 he was President of the Central Administration for fuel industry, then worked from 1949 to 1951 in the Ministry of Heavy Industry of the GDR.
Gustav Sobottka died after his retirement honor for "Outstanding mountain man in the GDR " on March 6, 1953 in Berlin, while his wife was in the spa. You got to see only a sealed coffin, which was then cremated. His ashes were interred in the memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin- Lichtenberg. The rehabilitation of the Son of Gustav in 1956 experienced only Jettchen Sobottka.
Honors
- Honorary pension as a fighter against fascism
- Honored mountain man in the GDR
- After Gustav Sobottka the VEB was named lignite plant in Röblingen, as well as numerous roads and schools in the GDR. In Zeitz, there is the Gustav- Sobottka Street today.
- Several units of the NVA had the honorary name " Gustav Sobottka ".