Albert Petersen (politician)

Albert Petersen (born June 2, 1892 in Lübberstedt ( Gödenstorf ), † May 17, 1967 ibid) was a German farmer and politician ( DDP , CDU ).

Petersen was the son of a farmer and lived as a farm owner and potato dealer in his hometown.

Before 1933 he was the deputy chairman of the Winsen district association in the Hanoverian Small Farmers Association. In 1929 he was elected to number 1 on the list of the DDP for the electoral district Harburg-Wilhelmsburg in the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover . There he was an assessor in the presidium and a member of the accounting committee. In 1932 he left parliament. In the time of National Socialism he could not continue his political work.

From 1946 he was again a member of the district council and a member of the nine-member provisional district committee. In 1946 he was elected mayor of Lübberstedt and remained in office until 1947. 1961 to 1967 he was again mayor there. In 1947 he became a member of the CDU. 1952 to 1956 he was a member of the Harburg district council.

In addition, after the war he was the founder and deputy district chairman of the Lower Saxony rural people. He was involved in the church and was an honorary judge at the agricultural court in Winsen an der Luhe and from 1954 chief agricultural judge at the higher regional court in Celle . He was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit.

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. 273-274.