Rudolf Löhr

Rudolf Löhr (born November 23, 1885 in Braunschweig ; † spring 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German SPD politician and Braunschweig State Minister.

life and work

After the November Revolution of 1918, the trained lathe operator was politically active in the Braunschweig USPD , whose local association he headed in 1919/20. In October 1919, Löhr spoke out against reunification with the MSPD . He was USPD District Secretary and in 1919, together with Carl Eckardt and Paul Junke, spokesman for the left wing of the USPD. From 1920 to 1922 Löhr was USPD district chairman and, after the merger of the USPD and MSPD, from 1923 to 1925 SPD district chairman. Between 1929 and 1933 he was Braunschweig SPD local secretary.

Braunschweig State Minister

In the Merges cabinet , the first democratic post-war government in the Free State of Braunschweig , he was State Minister for Transport and Trade until February 22, 1919. In the subsequent cabinet, Oerter , he managed the ministry before being replaced by Otto Antrick on March 1, 1919 . From 1922 to 1930 Löhr was a USPD or SPD member of the Braunschweig state parliament .

Persecution and Internment

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in March 1933, Braunschweig Social Democrats were arrested and mistreated. On March 11th, Löhr was mistreated in the Braunschweiger Volksfreundhaus . In 1938 the Gestapo arrested and interrogated him in the course of a wave of arrests against former SPD members. As part of the action grid Loehr was arrested again in August 1944 and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp internment. He was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and murdered there in the spring of 1945.

literature

Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 389 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b biography of Rudolf Löhr . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
↑ Reinhard Bein : Zeitzeichen, Stadt und Land Braunschweig 1930–1945. Braunschweig 2006, pp. 66, 82.

personal data
SURNAME	Löhr, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD) and minister
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	1945
Place of death	Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

[Biosop-1] raphy of Rudolf Löhr . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

[2] Reinhard Bein : Zeitzeichen, Stadt und Land Braunschweig 1930–1945. Braunschweig 2006, pp. 66, 82.