Paul Bugdahn
Paul Bugdahn (born April 25, 1890 in Rostock , † December 24, 1948 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the Hamburg parliament.
Life and politics
Career until 1933
Bugdahn attended secondary school (St. Georg Citizens' School ) in Rostock, but left it without a degree. He learned the trade of printer and typesetter in his native town and worked there until 1919. During his apprenticeship he had attended the technical school and the advanced training school. From 1908 to 1910 the years of traveling and his professional activity took him to all parts of Germany. Bugdahn did military service from 1910. From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Mecklenburg Cross for war awards.
From October 1919 to 1933 he worked on the editorial team of the Hamburger Echos , first as a reporter and later as an editor . From 1922 he took over the management of the newspaper.
In addition to his professional career, which was already politicized by the work within the editorial team, he was a trade unionist and active party politician . Between 1907 and 1909 he was a co-founder and leader of the youth workers in Mecklenburg and since 1913 a union and party functionary in Altona . He took part in the SPD party congresses in 1925 (in Heidelberg), 1929 (in Magdeburg) and 1931 (in Leipzig). He was also a member of the Prussian state parliament from May 1928 to July 1933 (3rd, 4th and 5th legislative periods ) for the SPD.
Until 1933 Bugdahn was one of the leading politicians of the Altona SPD. From 1919 to 1933 (with interruptions) he was temporarily chairman of the SP in Altona and from 1924 to 1933 a member of the SP district executive committee in Schleswig-Holstein. From 1924 to 1933 he was a city councilor and from 1927 city councilor in Altona on the Elbe .
National Socialism and the Post-War Period
Bugdahn was partially imprisoned during the Nazi era. During the Second World War he was drafted again as a soldier. From 1946 to 1948 Bugdahn was a member of the Hamburg citizenship . In 1946 he was the secretary of the appointed citizenship and was then a member of the first elected citizenship until his death.
From 1945 until his death in 1948 he was a partner, license holder and managing director of the Hamburg printing and publishing company Auerdruck GmbH. He died as a result of a car accident. He is buried in the Altona cemetery.
literature
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
- Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term, Berlin 1933, p. 314.
Web links
- Paul Bugdahn's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.spd-hamburg.de/Distrktionen/Altona-Nord/geschichte/weimar.php ( Memento of July 12, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Interview of November 19, 1987 with Hermann Stamerjohann. On the side of the SPD Hamburg / Altona district.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bugdahn, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1948 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |