Josef Friedrich Matthes
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Josef Friedrich Matthes
Josef Friedrich Matthes (February 10, 1886 – October 9, 1943) was head of the short lived Rhenish Republic.[1]
Biography
He was born on February 10, 1886 in Würzburg. He moved to Switzerland in 1909 and worked as an editor in Baden. By 1918 he was editor of the Social Democratic Party of Germany's newspaper in Aschaffenburg. In 1921 he was convicted of libel and sentenced to 6 months in prison. In 1923 he headed the short lived Rhenish Republic when the city of Koblenz was seized in a putsch. By 1930 he was working as a journalist in Paris. He was deported to the Dachau concentration camp and died there on October 9, 1943.[2]
References
- ^ "Separatists Split; Matthes Is Ousted. Active Head Is Overthrown by Secretary, Rosenbaum, and Coblenz Force". New York Times. November 29, 1923. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB061EFF3F5D15738DDDA00A94D9415B838EF1D3. Retrieved 2011-01-23. "Joseph Matthes chief of the "Rhineland Republic," announced today that he had dissolved the Separatist Government at Coblenz. He is back at Düsseldorf, where he told the New York Times correspondent he intended "to start the movement afresh along better lines, freed from compromising elements which had done no much to discredit it.""
- ^ Schlemmer, Martin (2007). "Die Bestrebungen des Josef Friedrich Matthes (1922 bis Sommer 1923)". "Los von Berlin": die Rheinstaatbestrebungen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. ISBN 978-3-412-11106-9. http://books.google.de/books?id=hF7S95AHUHQC&pg=PA160.
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