Robert Dißmann

Robert Dißmann (8 August 1878 – 30 October 1926) was a German trade unionist and politician.

Born in Hülsenbusch (now part of Gummersbach) in the Prussian Rhine Province, Dißmann became a machinist and joined the German Metal Workers' Union (DMV) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1900, he began working on a full-time basis for the union in Barmen. He later moved to Frankfurt.^[1]

In 1908, he became a full-time local party secretary for the Social Democratic Party in Hanau. He then became district secretary in Frankfurt. He stood for the party's national executive in 1913 and was narrowly defeated.^[1]

Dißmann opposed World War I. In 1917, he left the SPD and joined the new Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1919, he was elected as joint president of the DMV, and in 1920, he was also elected to the Reichstag. He rejoined the SPD with the majority of the USPD in 1922, and remained prominent in its left-wing faction.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Morgan, David W. (1975). The Socialist Left and the German Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 459.

Trade union offices

Preceded by

Alexander Schlicke

President of the German Metal Workers' Union
1919–1921
With: Alwin Brandes and Georg Reichel

Succeeded by

Alwin Brandes, Willy Eggert and Georg Reichel

[morgan-1] 1 2 3 Morgan, David W. (1975). The Socialist Left and the German Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 459.

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