Alfred Brodauf

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Alfred Brodauf

Franz Alfred Brodauf (born January 15, 1871 in Großhartmannsdorf , † March 23, 1946 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( Liberal People's Party , Progressive People's Party , DDP ).

Life and work

Brodauf was born the third of four children and had four half-siblings from two other marriages of his father. His father Karl Moritz was a teacher. The brother Friedrich Moritz became a well-known sculptor. After graduating from high school in Freiberg in 1890 , Brodauf, who was Protestant-Lutheran , studied law in Leipzig until 1895. He spent his legal traineeship at the district and regional court in Freiberg and with the Leipzig public prosecutor's office. After the assessor examination, he was first a court assessor from 1900, from 1903 a regional judge and finally from 1919 to 1933 a regional court director in Chemnitz . In 1922 he was a co-founder of the Republican Judges' Association of Saxony. In 1945/46 he worked in the administration of justice in Dresden. Her marriage to Johanna Charlotte Meier in Berchtesgaden in 1932 remained childless. Alfred-Brodauf-Straße in Aue is named after him.

Political party

Brodauf was initially a member of the Free People's Party and the Progressive People's Party and was one of the founders of the DDP in 1918 , of which he remained a member even after it was renamed the German State Party in 1930. In these parties he was chairman of the Chemnitz local association and a member of the Saxon state board. In 1945/46 he was a founding member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in Klotzsche . His estate is in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach and in the main state archive in Dresden .

MP

Brodauf was a member of the state parliament in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1909 to 1918 . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . He was then a member of the Reichstag until 1928 . In 1933 he was forced to retire for political reasons.

literature

  • Lutz Sartor : The judge and parliamentarian Alfred Brodauf (1871-1946). A contribution to left liberalism in Saxony . In: Yearbook on Liberalism Research . Volume 16, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2004, pp. 173-192. ISBN 3-8329-0912-5
  • Alfred Brodauf, Johannes Brodauf, Hans Heinrich Brodauf: 600 years of the Brodauf family - a family register from 1350 . 1980 by Prof. Dr. med. vet. habil. Hans Heinrich Brodauf, Kirchzarten / Black Forest, self-published

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