Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1976 - 10 Pfennig

Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement (Edition 1976) The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four special postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. No special first-day cover JOHN SCHEHR was born on February 9, 1896 in Hamburg-Altona. His father was a worker. John Schehr learned the profession of locksmith and was active as a load carrier. The situation of the working class in Germany led him early into the political struggle. In 1912 he joined the Social Democrats and 1913 the free unions. After World War I, John Schehr joined the USPD in protest of the anti-working-class policies of the SPD's right-wing leaders and joined the KPD in 1919. From 1924 to 1930 he held various functions in the district Wasserante. John Schehr, one of Ernst Thälmann's closest comrades-in-arms and collaborators, had an outstanding share in the development of the KPD into a Marxist-Leninist mass party. In 1932, John Schehr became a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the KPD and in the same year was elected a member of the ECCI. He was a member of the Prussian Landtag and the Reichstag. From 1930 to the spring of 1932, John Schehr, as Political Secretary of the district leadership of the KPD in Lower Saxony, consistently fought against the fascist threat and contributed significantly to the development of the anti-fascist united front movement. After the seizure of power by the fascists, John Schehr headed the illegal work of the KPD in Germany. In November 1933 he was arrested and murdered after cruel torture in the Gestapo building on 1 February 1934 in the Prince Albrecht Street in Berlin.