Albin Karl

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albin Karl (born February 5, 1889 in Rothenhof near Coburg , † January 4, 1976 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hanoverian Landtag .

Life

After attending elementary school, Karl began an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter , his parents' profession, and completed this training early on Christmas 1906. In 1906 Karl joined the SPD. Because of his involvement in the union and for taking part in strikes, he was reprimanded in late 1906. He was fired and went on a journey in 1907 and worked as a painter in a wagon factory. From 1908 he gave lectures in trade union and political meetings and from 1910 worked for the Coburger Volksblatt as a regional reporter. From 1928 to 1933 he was the second chairman of the factory workers' association in Hanover and a member of the ADGB federal committee. Between 1912 and 1934, he also expanded his union activities abroad. In the years 1933-1945 he was managing director of the general agency and the distribution center of the Schlüchtemer soap factory and as such continued his union work after the breakdown of the unions in 1933 illegally by working as a manager and liaison with contacts abroad. As early as 1933 , he was taken into protective custody for two months. As a result of his engagement, he had been in remand and protective custody for 13 months since that year and spent four months in the Columbia-Haus concentration camp in Berlin in 1935. In 1936/37 he spent another 11 months in custody and in a concentration camp.

In connection with the attempted coup on July 20, 1944, he was designated as the new head of the industrial union "Stones and Earths".

After the end of the Second World War , Albin formed and headed the Hanover Main Committee for Reconstruction . He helped found the general union in Hanover. In addition, he became a member of the provisional board of directors of the German Trade Union Federation , and since 1949 he was a member of the regular DGB board. From 1946 to 1948 he was also a zone council member and union representative in the British zone.

Albin Karl was a member of the appointed Hanover State Parliament from August 23, 1946 to October 29, 1946.

He is buried in the Nackenberg cemetery in Hanover.

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 190.
  • Biography of Albin Karl in the archive of the social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  • Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) A. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Reconstruction Committee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 677