Adolf Ludwig

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Adolf Ludwig (born June 27, 1892 in Pirmasens ; † February 18, 1962 there ) was a German trade unionist and politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After attending elementary and secondary school in Pirmasens, Ludwig completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker , which he completed with a journeyman's examination. From 1908 he was chairman of the Socialist Workers Youth in Pirmasens and from 1910 he was involved in the shoemaker's union. From 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1918 he was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Pirmasens and from 1919 to 1933 managing director of the shoemaker's association in Pirmasens.

He attended the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main in 1922 and Fircroft College in Birmingham in 1924 for further training. Between 1923 and 1924 he was temporarily expelled from the occupied area of ​​the Palatinate. After he was arrested several times as district chairman of the Central Association of Shoemakers in Germany in Pirmasens in 1933 , he emigrated to France , where he was active in the international trade union movement until 1945. During the war he became a member of the "Free Germany" Committee for the West (CALPO).

After the Second World War , Ludwig returned to Germany and took part in the establishment of the Schuh und Leder trade union (later the leather trade union ), of which he became chairman for the Palatinate. In 1947 he became state chairman of the DGB Rhineland-Palatinate . He held this office until 1958. He was a member of the German Council of the European Movement.

The Adolf-Ludwig-Ring in his home town of Pirmasens is named after Ludwig . His son Werner was Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen am Rhein from 1965 to 1993 .

politics

Ludwig had been a member of the SPD since 1910. From 1917 to 1922 he was a member of the USPD , after which he returned to the SPD. From 1920 to 1930 Ludwig was the third honorary mayor in Pirmasens. He then served from 1930 to 1933 member of the City Council in Pirmasens, member of the board of the Bavarian cities of Bunds and 1932/33 state representative in Bavaria .

In 1945 he became provisional district chairman of the SPD in the Palatinate. 1946/47 1st chairman together with Franz Bögler. In 1946/47 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1947 to 1949 a member of the State Parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate. From the first federal election until 1961 and again from January 6, 1962, when he replaced Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner , he was a member of the German Bundestag until his death a few weeks later . In 1949 he was directly elected to parliament in the Kaiserslautern constituency , otherwise via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list of his party.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Hamacher u. a .: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement, short biographies (PDF; 894 kB). Dietz-Verlag Berlin 2005.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Pech: On the side of the Resistance, To the fight of the movement "Free Germany" for the West in France 1943-1945. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1974.

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personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (USPD, SPD), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1962
Place of death Pirmasens