Siegfried Taub Explained

Siegfried Taub (1876, Telč, Margraviate of Moravia  - 1946) was a Sudeten German Jewish politician from Czechoslovakia.

Career

Taub was the general secretary of German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP) from 1924.^{[1] [2] [3]} He belonged to the Moravian triumvirate, with party chairman Ludwig Czech and newspaper editor Wilhelm Niessner, that came to dominate the party leadership from the mid-1920s.^[4] Taub served as deputy speaker of the Czechoslovak parliament.^[5]

Taub represented DSAP in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International between February 1930 and 1938.^[6] He was a secretary by profession. According to data from 1935, he lived in Prague.^[7]

During the beginning of the Second World War, Taub was in exile in Sweden.^{[3] [5]} In 1941, he moved to the United States. Taub left behind the archives of the Sudeten German social democrats, which were later recovered and donated to the Swedish Labor Movement Archive and Library.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Wlaschek, Rudolf M. Juden in Böhmen Beiträge zur Geschichte des europäischen Judentums im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, 66. München: Oldenbourg, 1997. p. 88
2. Rothkirchen, Livia. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust. Lincoln [u.a.]: Univ. of Nebraska Press [u.a.], 2005. p. 51
3. Brandes, Detlef. Grossbritannien und seine osteuropäischen Alliierten 1939-1943: die Regierungen Polens, der Tschechoslowakei und Jugoslawiens im Londoner Exil vom Kriegsausbruch bis zur Konferenz von Teheran. Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, 59. München: Oldenburg, 1988. p. 57
4. Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), Stephan Dolezel, and Karl Bosl. Die demokratisch-parlamentarische Struktur der Ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik: Vorträge d. Tagung d. Collegiums Carolinum in Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee vom 28.11. bis 1.12.1974. München: Oldenbourg, 1975. p. 209
5. McKay, C. G. From Information to Intrigue: Studies in Secret Service, Based on the Swedish Experience, 1939-45. Cass series--studies in intelligence. London: F. Cass, 1993. p. 125
6. Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. p. 284
7. Web site: 2011-10-19 . cs. seznam zvolených poslanců . Poslanecká sněmovna Parlamentu České republiky.
8. http://www.arbark.se/wib/german-speaking-emigres-papers-in-arabs-stores.pdf