Adolf Burgert

Adolf Burgert (born April 20, 1888 in Engelsberg , Freudenthal district , † February 15, 1952 in Delmenhorst ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ). From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Oldenburg Landtag and from 1947 to 1952 City Director of Delmenhorst.

Life

After attending primary school, the son of a master weaver completed an apprenticeship as a weaver and spinner, attended advanced training schools in Würbenthal and Ostritz and worked as a weaver and spinner until 1919, most recently as a spinning master and spinning supervisor. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . In 1906 Burgert joined the union and from 1919 he worked as an employee for the textile workers' association in Delmenhorst. Furthermore, from 1927 he was chairman of the ADGB local committee and a member of the administrative committee of the proof of work in Delmenhorst.

Burgert was an unpaid city councilor in Delmenhorst from 1924 to 1933. He ran in 1930 in constituency 14 (Weser-Ems) for the Reichstag , but was unable to enter parliament. On April 21, 1931, he replaced Eduard Schömer , who had left the parliament, in the Oldenburg State Parliament, to which he was a member until 1933. During his membership in parliament he was from 1931 secretary of the state parliament, from 1931 to 1933 a member of the petitions committee and from May 1933 a member of the shop stewards committee.

After the National Socialists came to power , Burgert was taken into " protective custody " on May 2, 1933 . Shortly afterwards he lost his job with the textile association, was expelled from Delmenhorst and was imprisoned almost continuously until December 1933. Even before the party was banned, a notary was able to avert an accusation of embezzlement initiated by the National Socialists with the support of the Delmenhorster SPD. Because of his origins as a " Sudeten German ", the new rulers also sought his expatriation. In August 1944, Burgert was arrested for two weeks in the Farge labor education camp near Bremen as part of the " Grid Action " .

Burgert resumed his political activities after the Second World War . From May 1945 he was deputy mayor and from August to November 1945 paid town councilor in Delmenhorst. From December 1945 to May 1947 he was first city director, then senior city director until his death in 1952.

honors and awards

The city council of Delmenhorst posthumously honored his services by naming a street, the Adolf-Burgert-Weg .

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 70-71.
• Paul Wilhelm Glöckner: Delmenhorst under the swastika. Isensee, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-89598-777-8 .

Web links

• Biography of Adolf Burgert . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)