Albert Gotze

Albert Götze (born July 5, 1887 in Meerane ; † November 21, 1967 in Bremen ) was a German managing director ( GEWOBA ), trade unionist and politician ( USPD , SPD ) from Bremen. He was a member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

education and profession

Götze was a union official from the 1920s to 1933. After the Second World War, he worked as managing director of the housing company GEWOBA in Bremen until 1954 and thus played a key role in the first reconstruction in Bremen.

politics

Götze was a member of the SPD, then from around 1917/18 the USPD and since October 1922 again the SPD in Bremen.

For the USPD he was a member of the Bremen National Assembly in 1919/20 . From 1920 to 1933 and then again in 1946 and from 1951 to 1955 for the USPD and SPD for around 18 years he was a member of the Bremen citizenship and in various deputations and committees of the citizenship.

During the Nazi era , he lost his citizenry mandate and was persecuted by the Nazis as a representative of the Free Trade Union and the SPD. On March 7, 1933 he was able to speak publicly for the last time at the funeral of Johann Lücke vom Reichsbanner in the Waller Friedhof . On April 18, 1933, the Nazis occupied the Volkshaus of the trade unions in Bremen. Albert Götze, Oskar Schulze , Emil Sommer and others were placed in “protective custody”. When the charges proved unfounded, they were released in August 1933. Politically, he could only be active in secret resistance afterwards.

swell

• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .