Alfred Dobbert

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Alfred Dobbert

Alfred Dobbert (born January 2, 1897 in Barmen , † November 19, 1975 in Wuppertal ) was a social democratic politician.

life and work

Dobbert completed after the elementary school a teaching as a belt Dreher. From 1911 he attended the advanced training school in Benrath . A year later he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and in 1913 Dobbert became a member of the free trade unions ( German Textile Workers Association ). In 1915 he joined the SPD . During the First World War he was a soldier. After the war, Dobbert first joined the USPD and was editor of the USPD newspaper Volkstribüne from 1918 to 1920 . He was later a member of the SPD again. From 1920 to 1924 he was union secretary in Grossenhain . There he was also a city councilor, and from 1924 he held the same position in Meißen .

From 1926 to 1930 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament and from 1930 to 1933 a member of the Reichstag . From 1924 until his dismissal by the National Socialists , he was editor of the social democratic people's newspaper in Meißen.

As a member of the Reichstag for the SPD, Alfred Dobbert voted against the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933 .

Until May 1933 Dobbert was some time in Flat protective custody . After that he was alternately active as an author, soap dealer and insurance agent. In 1934 he was arrested again after a house search. After his release, Dobbert became district manager of the Alte Leipziger Versicherung . During the Second World War he did military service again .

After the war, Dobbert was a city councilor in Wuppertal and chairman of the SPD district of Lower Rhine from 1946 . From 1950 to 1952 he also sat on the party's federal executive committee. From 1952 he was a member of the party council. In 1961 he was elected mayor of Wuppertal. Professionally, he worked from 1946 to 1951 as editor-in-chief of the social democratic newspaper Rhein-Echo in Düsseldorf . In 1952 he switched back to insurance and in 1954 became director of the provincial insurance institutions of the Rhine Province .

Dobbert was first a member of the appointed Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1946 and then until 1966 a member of the elected Landtag. From 1947 to 1966 he was deputy chairman of his parliamentary group. He was also vice-president of parliament from 1948 to 1966 and also deputy chairman of various committees. The state parliament elected him in 1949 as a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President . From 1948 to 1949 he was an alternate member of the British Zone Zone Advisory Board .

In 1967 he was awarded the ring of honor by the city of Wuppertal .

Dobbert's grandson, Markus Dröge , was Bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia from November 14, 2009 to November 16, 2019, based in Berlin .

literature

  • 60 years of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country and its deputies. Düsseldorf, 2006, p. 233.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Negotiations of the German Reichstag. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b "Otto Wels' speech is an invitation to all of us" | SPD parliamentary group . In: SPD parliamentary group . March 21, 2013 ( spdfraktion.de [accessed October 8, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Dobbert, Alfred . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Daecke bis Dziekan] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 224 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 212 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Ring of Honor of the City of Wuppertal , werner-steinbach.de ( Memento from March 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Bishop Markus Dröge on the Kirchentag - The Church. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dobbert, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD, USPD, SPD), MdL, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1975
Place of death Wuppertal