Adolf Handschuhmacher

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Adolf Handschuhmacher (born May 24, 1899 in Ruhla ; † January 27, 1980 in Kaltennordheim ) was a regional politician and functionary of the GDR bloc party LDPD and at times a member of the Thuringian parliament and the GDR regional chamber .

Life

Handschuhmacher was born on May 24th, 1899 as the son of a businessman in Ruhla. After attaining the upper secondary school leaving certificate, he began a commercial apprenticeship on April 1, 1915 in the Ihlefeldt & Kramer fashion store in Quedlinburg, which he completed by June 15, 1917. Shortly after he came of age, Handschuhmacher was drafted into military service, which he did until the end of the war. On January 1, 1919, he was able to start again as a salesman at his old employer in Quedlinburg. In 1920 Handschuhmacher switched to the Rückmann company in Neuhaldensleben , where he worked from October 1, 1920, initially as a salesman and later as a department manager until the end of 1923. At the beginning of 1924 he worked again in his parents' business in Ruhla, initially as an employee, before taking it over with effect from June 15, 1931. Shortly before the end of the war, Handschuhmacher was taken to the Wommen labor camp near Gerstungen between January 4, 1945 and April 1, 1945 as a so-called half-Jew . After the war, shortly after the occupation of Thuringia by the Soviet occupying forces, on July 10, 1945, Adolf Handschuhmacher was appointed deputy mayor of Ruhla. He initially held this position on a voluntary basis, and from July 1950 to 1958 as a municipal employee. Handschuhmacher was one of the founders of the LDP local association in Ruhla, which he headed as chairman for twenty years after it was founded in summer 1945. As a result, he took on various party functions and offices in the liberal stronghold in the Eisenach area. Within the LDP, Handschuhmacher was temporarily a member of the LDP district board in Eisenach, from July 1950 to 1952 he was a member of the LDPD state board of Thuringia. Afterwards he was deputy chairman of the LDPD district board in Erfurt for a few years. He represented his party from 1946 to 1954 in the Eisenach district assembly, at times he was parliamentary group leader and deputy district assembly chairman. Handschuhmacher was a member of the Thuringian state parliament from July 7, 1950 until the state parliament was dissolved in July 1952. He then sat until 1978 as the LDPD representative in the Erfurt district assembly. In the second and third, short-lived electoral periods of the GDR Land Chamber, he was a member of the GDR as a representative of the Erfurt district from 1954 to 1958. At an advanced age, Handschuhmacher belonged to the central management of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 17, 1964 p. 2.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from April 27, 1974 p. 5.
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 2, 1979 p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Glove maker, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Handschumacher, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LDPD functionary, MdL Thuringia, MdLK
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhla
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1980
Place of death Kaltennordheim