Albert Horlitz

Albert Horlitz (born August 25, 1882 in Alt-Kessel, district of Grünberg i. Schles. , † December 24, 1972 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Horlitz attended an elementary school in Berlin and did an apprenticeship there at the municipal college for carpenters . 1900 passed his journeyman's examination as cabinet maker , in the same year he joined both the German Woodworkers Association and the SPD. After three years of wandering through Germany, France and Switzerland, he came back to Berlin. Horlitz was elected in 1907 as a community representative in Adlershof near Berlin. In 1910 he was hired as a union secretary in Krefeld . He was a soldier in the First World War .

In 1919 Horlitz was elected to the city council of the then city of Charlottenburg , in the following year also as a district councilor in the district of Charlottenburg . Three years later he entered the Berlin city council , and in 1926 he was elected a paid district councilor in the Charlottenburg district. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Horlitz was dismissed for political reasons and then worked as a property manager.

Albert Horlitz ' grave of honor in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

After the Second World War , Horlitz immediately became deputy district mayor of Charlottenburg and from 1946 district mayor. He held this office until 1951. In the Berlin election in 1950 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. In 1957, Horlitz received the honor of City Elder of Berlin for his services, after which he worked for a few years in the Charlottenburg District Assembly . His grave is designated as the honor grave of the city of Berlin .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 129-130 (331 pages).
• Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members Persecuted During National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 235.