Kurt Landsberg

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Kurt Landsberg (born March 20, 1892 in Berlin , † February 28, 1964 there ) was a long-time Berlin state politician who initially belonged to the CDU , but later switched to the SPD .

Life

During the Weimar Republic

After he had passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1920, he worked until 1933 as senior director of studies at various schools and later as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule in Berlin for history and political science.

During this time Kurt Landsberg was involved in the German Democratic Party and was elected to be a district councilor in Berlin's Mitte district.

Later he took over the chairmanship there.

Life in the "Third Reich"

In the “Third Reich” he was banned from his profession from March 1933 for racial and political reasons and initially worked as the director of the private Jewish forest school in Grunewald (Lessler School), but became unemployed in 1939 when the school closed and from 1940 worked as an employee of a machine factory Berlin.

Political activity after the war

Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, in Berlin-Nikolassee

After the war Kurt Landsberg worked as a teacher again.

Politically, he quickly found the CDU. After the Berlin election in 1946 , he became district councilor for public education in Berlin-Steglitz , and a year later he was appointed professor of history at the University of Music and the University of Fine Arts in Berlin.

In 1948 he was a member of the preparatory committee for the establishment of the Free University . In the same year he was appointed to the city council of West Berlin elected and took over until his resignation from the CDU chair the CDU parliamentary group.

In 1950 he switched to the SPD after disputes over the Berlin School Act. In the same year Kurt Landsberg became a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and a district councilor in Berlin-Zehlendorf . At the end of October 1957, the House of Representatives elected him to succeed Willy Brandt as President of Parliament with a narrow majority . As a result of author disputes with Harry Goetz and the request of the state committee of the Berlin SPD to give up his office, he resigned at the beginning of March 1958.

Chairman of the Free People's Stage Association and of the Association for the History of Berlin, newly founded in 1947, until 1964

He died on February 28, 1964 at the age of 71 in Berlin.

Landsberg was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin-Nikolassee . The grave is one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin .

Awards

• 1948: Member of the Senate of the European Academy for the Promotion of European Unification
• 1957: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Web links

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