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Heinrich Ströbel (7 June 1869 – 1 September 1944) was asocialistGerman journalist, poet, publicist,SPD and laterUSPD politician who was the editor in chief of the newspaperVorwärts from 1905 to 1907.[1]
Ströbel came from a middle-class background. He completed secondary school and then began commercial training, which he broke off after a short time. He then continued to educate himself in the history of literature and economics as well as other subjects typical of the time. In 1889, while the Anti-Socialist Law was still in force, he joined theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) and began to write for various party newspapers (includingDie Neue Zeit andVorwärts). In the years that followed, Ströbel concentrated on making a career within the SPD and becoming a party leader, which he largely succeeded in doing.
As early as 1900, onRosa Luxemburg's initiative, Ströbel became editor of the central organ of the SPD and was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1908 to 1918. In 1914, Ströbel was promoted to editor-in-chief of theVorwärts and from the outset took a critical stance on the SPD leadership's truce policy during theFirst World War. In 1917 he therefore switched to theIndependent Social Democratic Party, after having worked on the first issue of the magazineDie Internationale in 1915. Previously he had contact with theGerman Peace Society (DFG) and wanted and joined the pacifist collection movementBund Neues Vaterland. As early as 1916, Ströbel lost his job in the course of the so-called “Vorfahr-Robb” and from then on called for a boycott of the central organ of the SPD.
After the end of the First World War, Ströbel took over the presidency of the Prussian revolutionary government together with the SPD memberPaul Hirsch. From November 14, 1918 to January 4, 1919 he held the office ofMinister President of Prussia.
From March 1919 to November 1920, Ströbel acted as political editorialist for the magazineDie Weltbühne. After the split in the USPD, he returned to the SPD in 1920 and was a member of the Reichstag for the party from 1924 to 1932. Here he belonged to the left, pacifist wing of the party. Shortly after being elected to the party executive at the Leipzig Party Congress in 1931, he joined theSocialist Workers' Party of Germany and briefly co-chaired it withKurt Rosenfeld andMax Seydewitz, but returned to the SPD in early 1932. He was also a contributor to the pacifist newspaperDas Andere Deutschland.
In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland, where he died in 1944.
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