Hans Unterleitner
Hans Unterleitner (born January 27, 1890 in Freising , † August 30, 1971 in New York City , New York , United States ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD ).
The trained locksmith was appointed as Minister of State for Social Welfare in his cabinet by his father-in-law Kurt Eisner in the course of the November Revolution in Bavaria and the proclamation of the Bavarian Republic in November 1918 . After Eisner's murder, he briefly continued this office in Martin Segitz's cabinet and finally handed it over to Hans Gasteiger on April 8, 1919 .
In 1920 Unterleitner was elected to the Reichstag for the USPD , to which he belonged continuously until 1933, first for the USPD and later for the SPD. In 1933 Unterleitner was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp , where he stayed until 1935. In 1936 he was able to flee to Switzerland with the support of Wilhelm Hoegner, and in 1939 he emigrated to the USA. There he joined the German-American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism , of which he became a board member. The upper-class lawyer Max Friedlaender , who himself had to flee as a Jew in 1938, reviled him in 1939 as a “radical zero” and as a “sewer worker Unterleitner Hans”. After the end of the war, Hoegner, as Prime Minister, tried to get Unterleitner back into the cabinet. However, he preferred to stay in the United States, where he died in 1971.
Web links
- Hans Unterleitner in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Friedlaender: The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender , at the Federal Bar Association , p. 175.
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| SURNAME | Unterleitner, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (USPD, SPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freising |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1971 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York , United States |