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.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. 88Rothkirchen, Livia. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust. Lincoln [u.a.]: Univ. of Nebraska Press [u.a.], 2005. p. 51Brandes, 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 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.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 Taub served as deputy speaker of the Czechoslovak parliament.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
Taub represented DSAP in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International between February 1930 and 1938.Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. p. 284 He was a secretary by profession. According to data from 1935, he lived in Prague.
During the beginning of the Second World War, Taub was in exile in Sweden. 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.
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